KSENIA
SOBCHAK
INVITED TO TRADITIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
Interfax-Religiia,
24
January 2018
Ksenia
Sobchak,
a candidate for the presidency of the Russian federation,
journalist, and T.V.
anchor, has been invited to the U.S.A. for the prayer breakfast
on 1 February,
which the American president traditionally attends, and she will
participate in
it if her schedule permits, Ksenia Chudinova, the press
secretary of K.
Sobchak, said.
"It
is
possible that Ksenia will attend this event. We have been
invited, but her
schedule is very tight. If it works out, she will be present,"
K.
Chudinova told Interfax on Wednesday.
She
said that K.
Sobchak will be in the U.S.A. less than three full days, and in
that time she
expects to participate in a large number of different
appearances and meetings.
Earlier
the
chairman of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin, reported that
legislators had
accepted the invitation of the American side and the chairs of
three
parliamentary committees—Andrei Makarov (for budget and taxes),
Anatoly Aksakov
(for financial markets) and Viacheslav Nikonov (for education
and science)—will
participate in a number of events along with their colleagues
from the Congress
of the U.S.A.
The
decision to
send these deputies to Washington was made by the Council of the
Duma, one of
the members of the council explained, in turn, upon the
conclusion of the
meeting. "Our colleagues will participate in the national prayer
breakfast, which, by tradition, is attended by the president of
the U.S.A., and
in which many prominent politicians participate," he told
journalists.
This
will be the
66th of such "breakfasts": that is how many years it has been
conducted annually on the first Thursday of February, the deputy
explained. He
said that for this event everyone is invited "in a personal
capacity"
by a special joint commission of the Senate and House of
Representatives of the
Congress of the U.S.A. "Participation in this breakfast gives a
good
opportunity in an informal setting to discuss important
problems, including with
people who interest you," the member of the Council of the Duma
noted.
The
breakfast is
organized by the Congress of the U.S.A. along with the Christian
organization
"Fellowship Foundation," to which are invited representatives of
business and politics, and public and religious leaders, about
3,000 in all
from several dozen countries. It is expected that the delegation
from the
Russian federation will include about 70 persons. (tr. by PDS,
posted 24
January 2018)
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