In January, 2006, APSA staff met with the President Alexander Nikitin of the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) for discussions at the National Office in Washington, D.C. APSA is interested in establishing functional and research-based ties with scholarly communities overseas and these talks were an encouraging part of this process. As a start, APSA has agreed to provide RPSA with information on news and events in the discipline, while the RPSA has invited Thomas Remington, department chair at Emory University, to serve as a plenary speaker at their upcoming Annual Meeting in Moscow this October.