Bratislava to discuss matters of common inter est; in particular, how to improve their psychiat ric services and training, and how to overcome or remove the many obstacles which still exist. There were psychiatrists from West and East Europe, the Baltic States, Russia (St Petersburg and Ussuriisk, near Vladivostok), Ukraine, Moldavia and Azerbaijan, and from Albania. There were people from USA and from the UK: Catherine Oppenheimer. Bill Fulford and Steve Corea (the only psychiatric nurse present), all from Oxford; and myself. No psychiatrists came from Moscow, but we were pleased to welcome a legal academic, Svetlana Publinskaya, who has been almost entirely responsible for the prep aration and introduction of modern mental health legislation to Russia. The largest single group came from the Ukraine, where a reconsti tuted Psychiatric Association is emerging, helped by the 'Geneva Initiative'. This is the new title