Russian journalists visit Paso Robles
A delegation of Russian journalists meets the Paso Robles Daily News office. From left, Paso Robles Rotarian Bob Fonarow, facilitator Pavel Bodrykh, Yevgeniya Potekhina, Yelena Burdovskaya, Nataliya Poplavskaya, Paso Robles Daily News publisher Scott Brennan, Yevgeniy Belyanchikov, and Konstantin Alekseyev.
A delegation of Russian journalists and journalism professors is visiting Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo County this week.
The visit is sponsored by the Open World Leadership Center and the Paso Robles Rotary Club.
On Monday morning, the delegates visited the office of the Paso Robles Daily News and Access Publishing. The delegates met with news staff and talked about how journalism works here.
“It was wonderful to meet these journalists and share how our operation works,” says Paso Robles Daily News publisher Scott Brennan. “We had the opportunity to discuss how freedom of the speech and the press works in the US, and how our day-to-day news publishing works.”
The delegates included Yevgeniya Potekhina, Yelena Burdovskaya, Nataliya Poplavskaya, Yevgeniy Belyanchikov, Konstantin Alekseyev, Pavel Bodrykh, a facilitator with Open World Leadership Center, and translator Alexander Krainiy.
The delegates toured Hearst Castle over the weekend. This week they will visit with Travel Paso, the Paso Robles High School journalism department, the Paso Robles Rotary Club, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor John Peschong, SLO New Times, and the Cal Poly Journalism Department.
The Open World program builds the groundwork for enduring cooperation by bringing emerging government and civic leaders to the United States to work with their American counterparts during 10-day professional visits and facilitates continued relations through an alumni network and social media. It provides delegates first-hand experience with American community life, accountable government, and democratic values.
The program, sponsored by the US Government, provides thousands of American community leaders in hundreds of congressional districts the opportunity to serve as citizen diplomats.
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