Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 23 Jan 1995 15:01:01 -0800 (PST)
Sender: vftim@finance.rostov-na-donu.su (V.F. Timofeyev)
Subject: RE: Information Query etc
To: Al Decie, Program Coordinator
Fund for Democracy & Development
Dear Mr. Al Decie:
I am sending brief information concerning frequently repeating requests
on electronic addresses in Siberia and other sites (attached).
The information has relation to nodes and some scientific institutions
in regions requested. I hope it assists.
Now there are numerous information sources on RELCOM (Reliable Communications)
network and other networks here in Russia. Unfortunately, most of Russian
E-mail people do not have opportunity to gather, process and translate such
current Russian information.
I could investigate the subject for any Customer, provide connection with all
nodes and information companies interested in and prepair an English
survey/report on ex-USSR networks and information services (commercial and
non-commercial) available here including addresses, paths for access to
information sources. I believe, after English editing such report could
provide all information needed foreigners for access to information in
Russia.
Sincerely,
Vladimir
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Vladimir F. Timofeyev Internet: vftim@finance.rostov-na-donu.su
Chief Engineer on Personal Computers +7 - 8632 - 67-9600(o)
Rostov College of Economics and Finance (7:00am - 4:00pm GMT)
53 Dolomanovski Per., PC Laboratory #17 +7 - 8632 - 67-5122
Rostov-on-Don, 344011 Russia (C.I.S.) FAX +7 - 8632 - 67-0688
Educ Communication Projects Coordinator +7 - 8632 - 64-2967(h)
Director of Small Enterprise INFINPRAV (INFormatics, FINance & Law)
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Editor's Note:
Mr. Timofeyev attached a list of postmaster, RFC-822, and BBS/FIDO
addresses for email nodes in Irkutsk, Kemorovo, Kurgan, Tomsk, and
Novosibirsk. CCSI will forward Mr. Timofeyev's complete post to anyone
upon request. The entire file is about 23 Kb.
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Subject: Re: Information Query (fwd)
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Sender: Isak Froumin <frum@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Information Query
Al,
I'm a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Washington. I'm
form Central Siberia, so Professor St. Kerr asked me to look to your
questions.
1. I'm very disappointed with the situation with the western books
translated and published in Russia under supervision of USIA. I have
learned about this ambitious project just a few weeks ago here ,in USA.
Mostly, people in Russia (e.g. experts in education, sociology and
psychology) do not know about this project. I think that usual system of
a distribution of books should be changed for such a project. These books
should be offered to libraries and progressive NGO.
Soros Foundation runs the more effective project about writing of
new textbooks for Russian schools. This project contains the special
approach to the distribution of such books.
2. I know a number of NGO in Krasnoyarsk Territory and in some
other regions of Western Siberia. Do you need addresses?
I should also add that I'm quite surprised with the American
approach to Russian NGO. It seems that you sometimes use your cultural
patterns. Are NGO themselves so important? Or are democratically-oriented
projects more important for the future of Russia? For example, there are
a number of private schools in Siberia. They are NGO. They even have an
association. However ,I almost sure that some public schools are reallly
more independent than those private schools. Because they have a number
of innovative projects, that are very important fro the development of
civil society.
Yours sincerely,
Isak Froumin
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