From left to right: Maxim Alexeyev, Nikolay Nikiforov, Igor Permyakov, Igor Goncharenko, Andrey Taranov, Gen-Maj (ret.) Vladimir Popov, Fern Sumpter Winbush, Col. Christopher Forbes, James Connell, Svetlana Shevchenko, James Harvey. The U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POWs/MIAs (USRJC) held meetings in Washington, D.C., in March, to discuss issues concerning missing U.S. and former Soviet personnel from past wars.