Mother Samantha Smith was protecting "Artek".

Press konferentsiiSpasut whether "Artek"? 29.01.2009Na questions readers Lenty.Ru responsible administration of international child tsentraKommentariiPioneram is not mesto27.01.2009 "Artek" could pay for the existence of too good raspolozhenieMat Samantha Smith appealed to the Ukrainian authorities to do everything possible to save children's recreation center "Artek". The text of the letter, Jane Smith, said staff had received from the "Artek".
American schoolgirl Samantha Smith has become known throughout the world, once in 1982, wrote a letter to secretary general of the CPSU Central Committee, Yuri Andropov, and visited the Soviet Union. Samantha Smith asked the Soviet leader, not whether he was at war with the U.S. and capture the world. Andropov in his reply said that the war is not wanted, and invited the American to the Soviet Union. During her visit she visited including "Artek". A few years later she died in a plane crash.
In his address to the Ukrainian authorities, Jane Smith, Samantha's mother, remembers that it was in "Artek" several times. In her view, the situation in the camp "has a tremendous impact on international relations, when the change of international united nations for the sake of children." She asked the leadership of Ukraine "to protect this amazing historical place."
Recall that in early 2009, an international children's center "Artek" was forced to stop work due to lack of funding. Funds for its operation in the budget of Ukraine for 2009 does not provide. Head of "Artek" Boris Novozhilov, constantly speaking in defense of the center in late January, came to the hospital with a heart attack.
In Defense of "Artek" by, inter alia, representatives of the Russian intelligentsia. In addition, members of the Russian Children's Center "Eaglet" decided to transfer his one-day salary to relief fund for the Ukrainian colleagues. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in response to the scandal around the "Artek", ordered the government within a week "to normalize the work center.