“If we change nothing, nothing will change.”

Grigory Amnuel, filmmaker, producer, politician. He is the author of more than 30 documentaries, and a laureate and award winner at international film festivals. Grigory Amnuel has worked in the Moscow City Duma and in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He was a co-founder of the State Duma’s “European Club” interparty group, and has served as executive secretary of parliamentary groups for cooperation with African and Benelux countries. Amnuel is deputy director-general of the American-Soviet Kino Initiative (ASK), director of Euro ASK, founder and director of the “International Dialog” Open Club and of “Schools of Social Management and Civic Initiatives” educational programs for young Russians in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. He is a regular participant in radio and television political talk shows in Russia, the United States, Latvia, Poland, Germany, and other countries. He was the author and producer of the first-ever statue of a Pope (John Paul II) in the history of Russian statehood that was unveiled in the atrium of the Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow on October 14, 2011. Grigory Amnuel is a recipient of the Order of the Three Stars (Latvia), the John Paul II Medal for Merit for his services to the Archdiocese of Krakow (Poland), and the medal “Defender of a Free Russia” (Russia, 1991).