Daily Digest for 94-03-03



                          Table of Contents

WHAT'S NEW . . .

#01-03 Mar 94     The Russian PHYSICS-USPEKHI Journal table of contents
                  and selected abstracts is now available on-line. 
                  
#02-03 Mar 94     New "Za Nauku" issues (94-02-15, 94-02-25) available
                  from the Science page
                  
#03-03 Mar 94     New link to electronic ABSEES Online service (the
                  American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
                  
#04-03 Mar 94     Announcing KAMCHATKA: THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST, a live
                  satellite telecast on Tuesday, March 15, 1994

RECENT EMAIL . . .

#01-03 Mar 94     Sender: ac990@freenet.buffalo.edu (Art Bates)
                  Subject: Soviet-Era collectibles still wanted

#02-03 Mar 94     From: Aaron Trehub (absees@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
                  Subject: ABSEES Online

#03-03 Mar 94     From: Takeshi Utsumi,
/PN=tutsumi/O=associates.tnet/@INTERNET.sprint.com
                  Subject:  Re: PEACE CORP activity in Russia 

#04-03 Mar 94     Sender: F15P004@SAKSU00.BITNET
                  Subject:  info on Zheronoviski's book


APPENDIX:        LISTSERV address & basic procedures

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WHAT'S NEW . . .

*  Thanks to Victor Veselago (infomag@glas.apc.org), head of INFOMAG 
   Service Group, we now have the table of contents and abstracts of papers
from 
   PHYSICS-USPEKHI journal # 3/94.  This material is distributed by INFOMAG 
   Service Group, and if you wish to receive full information (in English) 
   about INFOMAG activity, send command HELP/E to the  address 
   infomag@glas.apc.org.   The March, 1994 issue of PHYSICS-USPEKHI is 
   available from the "science" page.  

*  The latest two issues of the "Za Nauku" publication are now on-line and
   available from the "Science" page.  This publications is provided in
   the Russian language.  
   
*  We are pleased to announce a link to the American Bibliography of Slavic 
   and East European Studies on-line system.  ABSEES contains bibliographic 
   records for materials about East-Central Europe and the former USSR 
   published in the US and Canada.  It covers many subject areas, from art, 
   culture, and literature to economics, politics, science and technology, and 
   military affairs.  (It also contains records for materials about East-West 
   cultural, academic, and scientific exchanges.)  Our thanks to Aaron 
   Trehub for  suggesting the 'link' -- we are hopeful for further work with 
   Aaron and the ABSEES.  The new link is available from the "Other Info
   Resources" page.  
   
*  Announcing: KAMCHATKA: THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST, another in the KHOP-TV Series 
   of Live Satellite Telecasts (KHOP-TV Hopkins School District Television, 
   Hopkins Minnesota) Tuesday, March 15, 1994 10:00 a.m. CT.  

   The March 15th program will feature the following:

   *   Geographic information and views of the unique landscape,
       including visits to hot springs and footage shot inside the crater
       of an active volcano.

   *   History and culture of the region, including tours around the city
       of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

   *   Visits with Russian students and information on how American
       students are using computers and e-mail to communicate with
       students in Kamchatka.

   The full announcement is available from the funding and exchange page.
   Thanks to Tammy Benshoof for forwarding this information to us.  



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Sender: ac990@freenet.buffalo.edu (Art Bates)
Subject: Soviet-Era collectibles still wanted

Hello Friends,

Thank you to all those ( Russian and American ) who took the time to 
respond to my original post, I received many, many letters, as well 
as starting what is sure to be a long-lasting friendship with a Russian 
professor living in Columbia!

I would like to mention that I'm still interested in any Soviet-Era 
collectibles.  If you are planning on going to Russia, or are planning 
to come to the U.S.A., I would appreciate any offers to purchase pins, 
badges, or whatever you may  happen to bring back with you. 

Thanks again everyone!
p.s. you can send me mail at ac990@freenet.buffalo.edu

Cheers,
Art

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)From: Aaron Trehub (absees@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
Subject: ABSEES Online


I just accessed Friends and Partners via Mosaic.  Congratulations on a most
useful addition to the array of WWW/Mosaic resources, and one of the first
(if not the first) in the Slavic/Russian studies field.

I'm the editor of the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European
Studies, or ABSEES.  ABSEES contains bibliographic records for materials
about East-Central Europe and the former USSR published in the US and
Canada.  It covers many subject areas, from art, culture, and literature to
economics, politics, science and technology, and military affairs.  (It
also contains records for materials about East-West cultural, academic, and
scientific exchanges.)  An online version of the bibliography has been
available at no charge over the Internet since late 1992.  It's called
ABSEES Online and it's based on a minicomputer at the University of
Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science.  ABSEES Online
currently contains over 17,500 records from the mid-1980s onwards.  New
records are added each month.  The database can be searched by author,
title, series name, or subject, and users can download up to 100 formatted
records at a sitting.  The login procedure is as follows:

1. telnet alexia.lis.uiuc.edu

2. login: absees

3. password: slavibib

There is an online "help" document.

Would you consider adding a link to ABSEES Online ((a
href="telnet://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu")Telnet ABSEES Online (/a)--html
syntax?) in the "More Information Resources" section of Friends and
Partners?

Thanks for the good work!

Aaron Trehub
Editor, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Telephone: (217) 244-3899
e-mail: absees@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu  

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)From:     Takeshi Utsumi, /PN=tutsumi/O=associates.tnet/@INTERNET.sprint.com
Subject:  Re: PEACE CORP activity in Russia 


Dear Tom Bruce:
 
RE: Your posting of 3/1st inquiring about PEACE CORP in Russia:
 
(1)   There is the Russian-American Business Center at the American Peace
      Corps Office in Rostov-on-Don.  Pls contact;
 
            Mrs. Carolyn Taylor (fax: +7-863-266-3504)
            PEACE CORPS
            Volga Region, Russia
            73 B. Sadovaya, room 212
            Rostov-on-Don, 344006 Russia
            phone: 7-(863)-239-0561
            root@rabc.rostov-na-donu.su
            (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:INTERNET,"ID":(root(a)rabc.rostov-na-donu.su))
 
(2)   I received this information from our following colleague;
 
            Mr. Vladimir F. Timofeyev (FAX: +7-8632-34-6088)
            Chief Engineer on PCs
            Rostov-on-Don College of Economics & Finance (Russia)
            53 Dolomanovsky Street, Laboratory #3
            Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Region, 344700
            Russia (C.I.S.)
            +7-8632-34-4600 (7:00am - 4:00pm GMT)
            Fax: +7-8632-34-0421
            vftim@finance.rostov-na-donu.su
            (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:INTERNET,
            "ID":(vftim(a)finance.rostov-na-donu.su))
 
      Vladimir wrote me recently that "Our Rostov College of Economics and
      Finance has close contacts with the American volunteers, especially with
      Mrs. Carolyn Taylor, who is responsible for computers and E-mail, and
      educational projects. We had provided assistance for them to make
      contacts via E-mail with some people of USA on the first stage of their
      stay in Rostov. They, in turn, gifted many American textbooks,
      concerning studying business, to our students."
 
(3)   Vladimir is now working to receive signal of our "Global Lecture Hall
      (GLH)" videoconference from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on
      July 7th -- including the demonstration of this "Friends & Partners"
      Word Wide Web (WWW) server by Greg Cole -- hopefully with a video of
      Natasha, too, for worldwide viewing by the attendees of the First
      International Conference on Distance Education in Russia" which will be
      held from July 5 to 8 in Moscow, and others in many countries.
 
      Preliminary announcement of this GLH will be made shortly.
 
Best, Tak

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Sender: F15P004@SAKSU00.BITNET
Subject:      info on Zheronoviski's book

i would like to know if Zheronoviski's book on Russia and her southern neighbor
s has been tranlated to English.
                             thanks.
                               saleh



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