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The participants of the congress briefed on improvement of business climate in the region, interaction between business representatives and government officials.

On November 4 Russia marks National Unity Day, one of the recently established public holidays.

A group of Native Americans led by Robin Joy, a curator of the Fort Ross National Park came to Tot’ma to make a tour of the city where Ivan Kuskov was born, to see the sights of it, to get acquainted with the Russian traditions, and to learn to make Russian souvenirs. In a local museum the American guests painted souvenir distaffs. They were treated to cloudberry jam and pies cooked according to old recipes.

The exhibition under the heading “Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker - mystery, figment and truth” opened in the Liechtenstein National Museum in Vaduz. The Liechtenstein National Museum is showing a temporary exhibition of icons of St. Nicholas, items from the collections of the Vologda State Museum-Preserve, the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Veliky Ustyug Museum, the Museum of Dionisy's frescoes in Ferapontovo and Tot’ma museum association.

Representatives of the Fort Ross National Park (California, USA) arrived in the Vologda Region to visit Tot’ma, a hometown of Ivan Kuskov, the founder of Fort Ross, to see its sights and to take part in a round-table discussion “Heritage of Fort Ross: Dialogue of Cultures”.