The "POLITY" Foundation : Political Consulting and Research Services.

The POLITY Foundation is a non-governmental, non-commercial research and political consulting organisation founded in 1993.

The Foundation was established to unite and co-ordinate the work of politicians, academics and businessmen in assisting the process of political and economic reforms in Russia , creation of a civil society and a law-based state.

The priority areas of the Foundation’s activities are:

• fundamental and applied research on foreign and domestic affairs;
• policy recommendations to executive and legislative bodies at all levels;
• political consulting in election campaigns at federal and regional levels;
• expertise of the bills, normative and other documents for the Presidential Administration, Federal and regional legislative bodies and other government institutions;
• consultative, information and management services;
• PR projects for public, political and commercial organisations and institutions.

Personnel
The POLITY Foundation is staffed by highly qualified specialists - mostly graduates of Moscow State University with doctoral degrees - all of whom have extensive academic, journalistic, teaching and practical experience. The Foundation also brings together leading specialists to fulfil the specific projects.
The President of the POLITY Foundation and Club-93 is Dr. Vyacheslav A.Nikonov.

The Foundation is involved in multinational projects in collaboration with international organisations and corporations (including the World Bank, the North Atlantic Assembly, the Aspen International Institute, the Carnegie Endowment, the Heritage Foundation, Hogan and Hartson, Converti, Solomon Brothers), research institutions in the USA, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Japan (New York State University, California Institute of Technology, the Commonwealth University, Colorado State University and others), and has on-going contacts with Moscow representatives of leading western press and information agencies and the Embassies.