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The meeting of women-peacemakers of Russia and Georgia was organized on 6-8 of September, 2010 in Moscow. Participants of the meeting were representatives of non-governmental organizations of the two countries, as well as independent Georgian and Russian journalists.

Earlier, in December 2009 during the meeting in Tbilisi, these women united in the Russian-Georgian Alliance, which aimed at the restoration of confidence between the two countries, despite the severance of diplomatic relations after the 2008 war.

The participants of the Alliance have a desire not to lose the good in the relations between the Russian and Georgian peoples. First of all this applies to human relations and interaction between cultures. The initiators of the dialogue of women were: the Georgian women's organization Cultural-Humanitarian Fund "Sukhumi", headed by Alla Gamakharia, and Russian NGO Union "Women of the Don”, headed by Valentina Cherevatenko.

During their stay in Moscow participants of the Alliance met with women and human rights non-governmental organizations in Russia, the well-known pediatrician and a peacemaker Leonid Roshal, the member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation journalist Maxim Shevchenko, with the representatives of the Consular Service of the MFA. The well-known Russian human rights activists Valentin Gefter and Svetlana Gannushkina emphasized at the meeting of the Alliance that people in Russia do not see the Georgians as enemies, and this gives hope, that the relations between the Russian and Georgian peoples will improve.

During these meetings, women peacemakers saw a sincere desire of the participants to contribute to the normalization of the relations between the peoples of Russia and Georgia.

The Russian and Georgian women-peacemakers have agreed that they would continue their activity as ambassadors of peace in both countries. They are planning to conduct joint research, exhibitions, meetings for the journalists from both sides, organize the festival of documentary films, humanitarian actions in the sphere of health and education. Such kind of humanitarian cooperation has already been started. By the common efforts of the Alliance in Tbilisi there was organized the exhibition of the Russian journalist Victoria Ivleva "The Apotheosis of War" which was dedicated to victims of military conflicts.  The book of a teacher and a journalist Elvira Gorukhina "Teacher’s trip to Caucasus” was translated into Georgian.