He was among the first Americans to broadcast sermons in Russian to millions of people living behind the Iron Curtain in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other former republics of the Soviet Union and to Russian-speaking audiences in the United States and Canada.
His articles and stories also appeared in the journals Continent (Континент), Time and Us (Время и Мы), The World (Мир), The New Journal (Новый журнал) and Panorama (Панорама), as well as in the literary almanacs Three Anniversaries for Andrei Sedykh (Три юбилея Андрея Седых) and Kaleidoscope (Калейдоскоп).
[2] Mikhail also began a series of spiritual radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union, beginning with his own literary novellas, Farewell, Cranes (До свиданья, журавли), and The Fate of the Clown (Судьба клоуна) that later appeared as audio-albums.
In 1991 he visited Russia with a delegation of American spiritual leaders and they met with president of USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and other political figures.
his work[4] through Christian Bridges International (Международный Христианский Мост)[5] and founder of Spiritual Diplomacy Foundation (Духовная Дипломатия)[6] located in North Port, Florida.