Date Added: 19-02-2009

Russian ambassador receives education American-style about summer camps in USA.  Read the excerpt below.

Meriden Record-Journal - Meriden,CT,USA

By: Andrew Perlot, Record-Journal staff

01/16/2009

MERIDEN - Roughing it, camping in tents and cabins stuffed with bunk beds may sound like staples of the bucolic summer camps of your youth, but Vladimir Torshin said Friday that these would never pass muster in Russia.

Torshin, a former administrator of the massive Artek summer camp on the Black Sea in Ukraine, is visiting the United States to research camps in the hopes of reversing their dramatic decline since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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