OREANDA-NEWS. July 3, 2008. A Russia-America: Trade and Investment Cooperation forum was held in San Francisco, USA, on June 23 to 27, in which major Russian and foreign companies and representatives from Russian and US federal and regional authorities, ministries of the Russian Federation, its Federation Council and State Duma took part. The forum discussed questions of Russian-American trade and investment cooperation in different segments of the economy: transport, communications, energy, machine-building and ecology.