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	03.12.06 Victoria Panova G8 research group, University of Toronto, Director for Russia
	03.12.06 Mona Bricke German NGO Forum Environment and Development
	03.12.06 Nigel Martin Montreal International Rorum (FIM)
	02.12.06 John Kirton Head of G8 Research Group, University of Toronto
	02.12.06 Regina Gunter Head of the WWF Germany

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All G8 States help Russia to Prepare the G8 Summit in St Petersburg

According to the Russian President Adviser, Russian Sherpa Igor Shuvalov, participating in Russian economic Forum, All G8 States help Russia to Prepare the G8 Summit in St Petersburg.

“Russia gets a very effective assistance coming from all G8 states, especially from Great Britain and the United States” - he said. Russian Sherpa highly appreciated the British help in organization of the discussion on civil society problems.

”They ask us very complicated questions and I like this style of work, - admitted Igor Shuvalov. – If you ask the Chatham House experts, they will say that we prepare the 2006 G8 summit better than it was in Great Britain last year. I must admit that the work is being done very effectively – we discuss problems of the global energy security and ecology, that we have to answer.

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	02.12.06 Halter Marek Le College de France
	02.12.06 Olivier Giscard d’Estaing COPAM, France
	02.12.06 Mika Ohbayashi Institute for Sustainable Energy Poliсy
	02.12.06 Bill Pace World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy
	01.12.06 Peter I. Hajnal Toronto University, G8 Research Group