“When Sanders was mayor, Burlington formed an alliance with another city – in the Soviet Union. When Sanders traveled to Yaroslavl, 160 miles north-east of Moscow, in 1988, the trip doubled as a honeymoon with his new wife, Jane. Not much survived in terms of paperwork from that trip, although the mayoral archives do contain a tape recording of Sanders interviewing Yaroslavl’s mayor on a boat somewhere on the Volga river.”
“...although the mayoral archives do contain a tape recording of Sanders interviewing Yaroslavl’s mayor on a boat somewhere on the Volga river....”
Wow these people are the gift that keeps on giving...
My sides hurt from laughing for about 1 year straight now.
I wish we could just wipe the mat with these spineless traitors.
Interesting choice of cities - somewhat ‘political’...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslavl
from link”:
“In the same year the preparations for the celebration of the millennium of Yaroslavl’s foundation began; this was finally celebrated on the second weekend in September 2010. Under the conditions of the preparations for the city’s 1000th year anniversary the municipal authorities invested a great deal of money into the development of the city’s road and rail infrastructure, much of the funds for which were granted by the federal government in Moscow.[38] ...
In 2009, Yaroslavl became a meeting place for global policy debates within the International Conference ‘The Modern State and Global Security’. AKA Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum. The conference in Yaroslavl gathered the most authoritative representatives of political science, business community as well as the representatives of the governments of a number of different states. Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, José Luis Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain and François Fillon, Prime Minister of France were all participants at the Conference.
In 2010, Russian officials gathered together international authorities in Yaroslavl to discuss the challenges facing the modern state at the Global Policy Forum for ‘The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency’. In 2011 Yaroslavl will bring together participants from all over the world to discuss the 2011 agenda: ‘The modern state in the age of social diversity’.