{ "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "id": "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/rf-mfa-public-record-crosswalk.json", "title": "NIGHTBOX Practical Friendship Program × RF MFA Public-Record Crosswalk", "version": "1.0", "issued": "2026-05-19", "publisher": {"name": "NIGHTBOX LLC", "url": "https://nightboxllc.com", "sam_uei": "UHCAB6UXXKF2", "cage_code": "20BA7"}, "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "purpose": "This manifest documents that the bilateral US-RF cooperation architecture catalogued across the ten domains of NIGHTBOX's Practical Friendship Program (PFP) is independently confirmed by the public-record statements of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA / МИД) on Russia-US political dialogue. NIGHTBOX did not invent this architecture. NIGHTBOX mapped what both states' foreign ministries already publish.", "scope_discipline": { "this_is": "A public-record crosswalk between NIGHTBOX's published PFP doctrine and the RF MFA's published catalog of bilateral US-RF contacts and instruments. Citing the MFA's public-record statements is normal editorial sourcing under CC BY 4.0.", "this_is_not": [ "Endorsement by the RF MFA of NIGHTBOX", "Endorsement by NIGHTBOX of any specific RF MFA narrative framing", "Representation of any foreign principal under FARA", "Any role beyond editorial documentation" ] }, "source_document": { "title": "Политический диалог России и США (Russia-US Political Dialogue)", "publisher": "Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA, МИД)", "type": "Public-record diplomatic background document", "subject_period": "2017-2021 with selected references through 2026", "language": "Russian (original)", "note": "Standard MFA-published background document on Russia-US relations. Cited for the specific verifiable historical facts it confirms, not for the narrative framing it advances." }, "crosswalk": [ { "pfp_domain": 3, "domain_name": "Strategic Stability + Nuclear Non-Proliferation", "nightbox_exhibit_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/strategic-stability", "mfa_confirms": [ "INF Treaty terminated by US initiative 2019-08-02", "Open Skies Treaty withdrawal process initiated by US 2020-05-22, formally completed 2020-11-22", "New START extended for 5 years following Biden inauguration", "Putin signed federal law ratifying New START extension 2021-01-29", "Strategic stability dialogue resumed July 2019", "Patrushev-O'Brien meeting Geneva 2020-10-02", "Patrushev-Sullivan phone calls 2021-01-25 and 2021-03-05" ] }, { "pfp_domain": 5, "domain_name": "Fundamental Scientific Cooperation", "nightbox_exhibit_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/scientific-cooperation", "mfa_confirms": [ "RAS ↔ NAS Joint Protocol on Cooperation in COVID-19-Related Research signed July 2020 via videoconference between Russian Academy of Sciences and US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine" ] }, { "pfp_domain": 6, "domain_name": "Cultural + Educational Exchange", "nightbox_exhibit_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/cultural-exchange", "mfa_confirms": [ "Putin-Trump joint statement on the 75th anniversary of the Elbe meeting, 2020-04-25", "Cultural exchanges frozen due to COVID epidemiology", "Bilateral museum-exchange remains blocked by Schneersohn collection litigation", "Bilateral museum-exchange remains blocked by former Yukos shareholders enforcement litigation" ] }, { "pfp_domain": 1, "domain_name": "Counter-Terrorism Information Sharing", "nightbox_exhibit_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/counter-terrorism-cooperation", "mfa_confirms": [ "Continued defense ministry deconfliction in Syria", "Three phone calls between Shoigu and Esper in 2020", "Direct line of communication established at level of chiefs of general staff", "Maintained interagency consultations in the Vienna format on Syria political settlement" ] }, { "pfp_domain": 7, "domain_name": "Civilian Editorial Liaison + diplomatic-level contacts", "nightbox_exhibit_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/bilateral-open-letter", "mfa_confirms": [ "Lavrov-Pompeo brief meeting at Munich Security Conference 2020-02-14", "Four Lavrov-Pompeo phone calls in 2020", "Lavrov-Blinken phone call 2021-02-04", "Maintained dialogue with US Special Representatives for Venezuela, DPRK, and Afghanistan" ] }, { "pfp_domain": 9, "domain_name": "Commerce Re-Engagement", "nightbox_exhibit_uri": "https://nightboxllc.com/market-reentry-roadmap", "mfa_confirms": [ "Telephone contacts between energy ministers continued", "Telephone contacts between finance ministers continued", "Telephone contacts between trade/commerce ministers continued", "OPEC+ stabilization agreement coordinated between Putin and Trump in 2020" ] }, { "pfp_domain": "bilateral_high_level_summary", "domain_name": "Top-level political contact frequency 2020-2021", "mfa_confirms": [ "Seven Putin-Trump telephone conversations in 2020", "OPEC+ deal coordinated through these calls — stabilization of world oil market", "Russia provided humanitarian aid in medical supplies to the US (April 2020)", "US delivered 200 ventilators to Russia (May-June 2020)", "Putin-Biden first phone conversation 2021-01-26" ] } ], "thesis": "NIGHTBOX's PFP doctrine maps to the bilateral cooperation architecture that the RF MFA's own published background documents catalog as existing instruments and channels. The map is the territory. The point of the NIGHTBOX hub is to make this map legible — on both sides, in both languages, with machine-readable companions — so that subsequent bilateral conversations on any layer have shared reference.", "related_manifests": [ "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/practical-friendship-program.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/liaison-framework.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/strategic-stability.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/scientific-cooperation.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/cultural-exchange.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/counter-terrorism-cooperation.json", "https://nightboxllc.com/.well-known/market-reentry-roadmap.json" ], "contact": "artem@nightboxllc.com" }