On September 10, in St. Petersburg, the former president of the USSR, the head of the Gorbachev Foundation, Mikhail Gorbachev, said that the representative office of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District had joined the joint work with the Gorbachev Foundation. Andrey Kurylev, Chief Adviser to the staff of the Plenipotentiary Mission, said that cooperation with the foundation is being implemented in the form of various programs, in particular, on the improvement of St. Petersburg and the development of the volunteer movement.
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