Daily Digest for 94-06-01
[Note from Greg]
Dear friends,
For the majority of the subscribers to this service, it has been quite some
time since you have heard from us. We very much want to apologize for this
very long and unanticipated absence, explain what has been happening
lately, and assure you that we are returning to a more regular schedule of
activity now!
First, as some of you know, my wife, Monica, and I made our first visit to
Central Europe and to Russia almost 3 weeks ago. We arrived back in the US
yesterday from what was, for both us, one of the best experiences of our
lives. During this trip, Natasha and I had the wonderful opportunity to
meet for the first time face-to-face and strengthen a friendship begun many
months ago on the Internet. We have worked together for almost six months
now on the development of this server -- but only met for the first time on
May 19 in St. Petersburg, Russia where we spent several days before
returning to Natasha's home in Pushchino (and a couple of days in Moscow).
I will not attempt to relay news of our time together in this
digest (but we will be happy to do so in future edition of this
communication if there is interest) -- but will just say that
"face-to-face" friendship is superior in all respects to the "virtual"
version! The 11 days we had together
gave us a wonderful opportunity to get to know each other and our
families and gave us much needed time to discuss our future hopes and plans for
this service. But our inability to connect to the Internet while in
Prague, Brno, St. Petersburg and Moscow and the hectic pace of our time together
in Pushchino left us unable to get much work accomplished on the digests.
To make matters worse, a technical mistake that I made in Knoxville before
leaving for Russia resulted in the two digests that Natasha sent not being
distributed to almost 98% of the subscribers. I did not realize
this until we returned yesterday -- but have now fixed the problem (and
promise to be more careful in the future).
We feel badly about not being able to better maintain the distribution of
the digests (this has always been an important priority for us) and are now
back "on track". We begin today with some important news and then include
the two digests that most of you have not seen due to my error. Tomorrow,
we will begin to catch up with the email notes sent to the 'friends' list
during our absence.
Please know that we are now more committed than ever to furthering this
service and to helping it grow into a better mechanism for facilitating
friendships between our peoples. We appreciate your patience and your
continued interest -- as well as your comments, criticisms, and suggestions.
P.S. We are both more than a little behind on our email at the
moment and just want to let those of you know who have written
to us recently that we hope to be all 'caught up' by this coming weekend.
IMPORTANT NEWS
Perhaps the most significant development from recent weeks that we have
to share with you is that Natasha has completed the "mirror server" of
"Friends and Partners" and made the formal announcement of this yesterday
all over the Internet. The "mirror server" is an exact duplicate of the
F&P server that exists in Knoxville but it resides on equipment in
Pushchino, Russia and will enable our friends in the countries of the
former Soviet Union to have must faster access to this information and
without the relatively high network traffic costs that folks there must
pay for 'foreign' information.
This development was made possible by a generous equipment grant by the
International Science Foundation and by a grant by Stack, Ltd in
Pushchino to cover initial network traffic costs. We are most grateful
to all who have worked to make this possible.
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[NOTE: This information is a little "dated" now but we wanted to go
ahead and send so that all subscribers would have all the
digests that have been sent. ]
Dear friends,
We want to begin by apologizing for the long absence this week (no digest
since Monday!) and thought that you might find of interest some of the
activities that have made the last two weeks the busiest, most productive, and
most difficult weeks yet in relation to this service. Many good things
have happened recently (and will happen soon) that we would like to share
with you.
First, Natasha has completed a "mirror" of the F&P world wide web server
on her new Sun SPARC 1 generously provided by the International Science
Foundation. This server will be announced throughout Russia and other
countries of the former soviet union within the next few days. This is
perhaps the most significant development in the server's 4 month old
history -- as it will enable our friends in the former soviet
union to participate fully in accessing and sharing information.
Also, we have received commitment from Sun, Inc. to provide equipment
grant in both Pushchino and Knoxville which will allow for more
powerful servers *and* which will permit use of video and audio over the
network. The immediate application will be for the July 7 Global Lecture
Hall event in which "friends and partners" will be formally "announced"
to the world and in which we will demonstrate live audio and video
delivered over the Internet. We are, of course, very, very grateful to Sun for
their interest in and support of this work.
Perhaps of greatest interest (to at least one of us) is the fact that we
(the F&P moderators) will meet for the first time in just a few
days. Greg and his wife Monica leave with UTK Professors Dave Hake and
Evans Roth for Prague today and will catch up with Natasha in St.
Petersburg on May 19th. After a few days there, we return to Pushchino
where we hope to have opportunity to plan, reorganize, and improve this
information service. We are most grateful to Drs. Hake and Roth for
providing this opportunity.
To help us in our efforts over the next two weeks, we would like to solicit
your comments and suggestions about how this server can be improved to best
meet your needs and best fulfill its original "charter" of providing for
useful information/people exchange between our nations. We welcome all
comments, criticisms, and -- most of all -- constructive suggestion for how
this can be improved. Please direct such to natasha@ibpm.serpukhkov.su
and gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
A couple of interesting notes: we just a few days ago welcomed our 700th
subscriber to the F&P listserver and have seen our busiest two weeks ever
in terms of access to the F&P World Wide Web server. We are excited
about the growing interest and motivated to make some dramatic
improvements during the next few weeks (including, a little better timeliness
on sending these digests!).
Table of Contents
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-17 May 94 From: CHRIS CASH (cash@ucsu.Colorado.EDU)
Subject: WHITE NIGHTS; SUMMER GOODWILL GAMES IN ST.
PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
#02-17 May 94 From: KIASAT%UCRVMS.BITNET@relay.eu.net
Subject: travel/research in Tajikistan
#03-17 May 94 From: Paula Lytle (lytle@lclark.edu)
Subject:RUSSIA - BUSINESS FINANCING SOURCE
#04-17 May 94 From: Denis Cowan (dcowan@ozspace.brisnet.org.au)
Subject: Intro to list Denis Cowan
#05-17 May 94 From: pw@shannon.tellabs.com (Peter Wise)
Subject: NEW-LIST: SUSDEV - Sustainable Development
in Eastern Europe
#06-17 May 94 From: XKKT57A@prodigy.com (DR EVANS L ROTH)
Subject: for digest
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
)From: CHRIS CASH (cash@ucsu.Colorado.EDU)
Subject: WHITE NIGHTS; SUMMER GOODWILL GAMES IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
Greetings!
I'm seeking some quick advice. I'm staying in St. Petersburg, Russia for
the summer and my wife has airline tickets to visit from May 28 - June
20. We just read that the White Nights Festival is held during the last
ten days of June. Should we pay an extra $125 to the airlines and
risk the goodwill of my wife's employer :-) to extend her stay 1-3 days
beyond June 20? If so, what festival events should she see or what can
she expect? If not, is
there someplace we should go or some activity we should engage in prior
to June 20 to fully appreciate St. Petersburg's White Nights?
Secondly, I've heard the Summer Goodwill Games are in St. Petersburg this
summer. Is this true? If it is, does anyone know how I might find out
when they're being held and how to get tickets?
Thanks very much for any advice you can offer!
--Chris Cash (cash@ucsu.colorado.edu)
Boulder, Colorado USA
P.S. - for that matter, if anyone knows of other special events,
observances, or activities in St. Petersburg or Moscow during this time,
I would really appreciate hearing about them. Thanks again!
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)From: (KIASAT%UCRVMS.BITNET@relay.eu.net)
Subject: travel/research in Tajikistan
Hi -- I am new to this list. So if I should have contacted someone in
particular for the information that is requested, please forgive me.
I would like to travel to Tajikistan this summer (July-August) to
do research on transitions from authoritarianism (demokratizatsiya).
Specifically, I want to interview government and military officials and
evaluate attitudes towards democracy, civilian control of the military,
military autonomy, levels of military professionalism, and other aspects
of civil-military relations. Also, I would like to gather as much data
on core-periphery relations both before and after the collapse of the
Soviet system concerning the nature of command and control of the Red Army
over regional divisions in Central Asia. In other words, I am interested
in assessing the status of the Red Army's relationship with regional militias
and militaries. How much has the relationship changed? etc...
I do not want to burden you with my project so...
1) How can I contact academics/friends in Tajikistan?
2) What kind of travel arrangements do I need to make? Visas, shots,...
3) How much success will I have in accessing officials, libraries, other
sources? How open are these sources to strictly academic research that
in addition to guaranteeing anonymity (sp) seeks to shed light on a
area that has received little attention yet is highly important?
Maybe these questions should be addressed to the Tajiki academics. Nonetheless
I thought I would throw them out with the other more general ones. My
apologies for going on and on... ;)
Any response, even negative yet consoling ones, will be greatly appreciated.
Please respond directly so as not to "clutter"(?) the list, unless you feel
someone else could benefit as well. P.S. Would I fly to Moscow and make a
connecting flight to Dushanbe or take ground transportation? Would going
through Iran be any easier???
Sincerely, SOLEIMAN (kiasat@ucrac1.ucr.edu) OR fax:(909)787-3933
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)From: Paula Lytle (lytle@lclark.edu)
Subject:
RUSSIA - BUSINESS FINANCING SOURCE - IMI940414
zec
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SUMMARY
This article is derived from a telegraphic report dated 14 April 1994,
prepared at the American Embassy - Moscow. It discusses a new source of
business financing in Russia. The article consists of 2 pages.
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14 APR 94
AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
SUBJECT: IMI: ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF FINANCE FOR
SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED PROJECTS IN RUSSIA
1. SUMMARY
THIS CABLE IS A CONTACT LISTING OF ADDITIONAL
FINANCING SOURCES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED
BUSINESS PROJECTS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. THIS
LIST SUPPLEMENTS A RECENT LIST OF EBRD FINANCING
PROGRAMS PRODUCED BY AMEMBASSY LONDON. THIS
LISTING WILL BE UPDATED PERIODICALLY.
2. AMERICAN INVESTMENT GROUP OF NAPLES
ST. KOSMONAVT VOLKOVA 14, 125299 MOSCOW
HERB VAN DYKE, CHAIRMAN, 7-095-156-9626, FAX 7-
095-156-9670.
THIS FUND MAKES SMALL EARLY-STAGE INVESTMENTS IN
RUSSIAN PROJECTS AND U.S.-RUSSIAN JOINT VENTURES.
THIS FUND ALSO HELPS SMALL RUSSIAN FIRMS FIND
OTHER U.S. INVESTORS.
3. FIRST INVESTMENT VOUCHER FUND
TRIBNIKOVSKIY PER., DOM 21, STR. 2, 121069 MOSCOW
MIKHAIL OREVICH CHEBOTAREV, PHONE 7-095-290-0053,
FAX 7-095-291-8783
RUSSIAN VOUCHER INVESTMENT FUND THAT INVESTS IN
RUSSIAN COMPANIES. BUYS AND SELLS PRIVATIZATION
VOUCHERS.
4. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION (IEC)
35 MYASNITSKAYA ST., 101959 MOSCOW
YURI VISLUSOV, PHONE 7-095-207-9411, FAX 7-095-
975-2449
RUSSIAN INVESTMENT FUND ACTIVE IN OIL AND RAW
MATERIALS SECTORS. JOINT VENTURE PARTNER OF
PAINE, WEBBER.
5. NEWSTAR
19-20 VSTOKIY PER., 103001 MOSCOW
PETER FALATYN, PROJECT, PHONE 7-095-291-8338, FAX
7-095-291-2926
VENTURE FUND/CONSULTING FIRM ACTIVE IN RUSSIA.
6. RUSSIAN-AMERICAN INVESTMENT BANK
SPASSKIY TUPIK, 2 BUILDING NR. 1, 129010 MOSCOW
CLIFFORD W. EVANS, PRESIDENT, PHONE 7-095-280-
8272, FAX 7-095-280-B510
INVESTMENT BANK.
7. PROMSTROIYBANK
TVERSKIY BLVD. 13, MOSCOW
A. BABKINA, DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL LENDING,
PHONE 7-095-200-7928, FAX 7-095-200-3273
RUSSIAN BANK THAT EXTENDS CREDIT TO RUSSIAN
ENTERPRISES. BANK IS ACTIVE IN RUSSIAN DEFENSE
SECTOR.
8. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE
INTERNATIONAL (PADCO)
MARCHIEVESKOYO, 18, 101000 MOSCOW
ERNEST SLINGSBY, VICE PRESIDENT, PHONE 7-095-923-
0123, FAX 7-095-923-6109
FUNDING FOR MILITARY HOUSING PROJECTS.
9. TRI-VALLEY GROWERS
1500 SANSOME STREET, SUITE 101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
94111, U.S. PHONE: 415-555-2017. IN RUSSIA,
CONTACT: PAULA COLOZZI, PHONE 7-095-923-3314.
GRANT FUNDING FOR FOOD MANUFACTURING AND
DISTRIBUTION PROJECTS.
(FCS MOSCOW/DRAFTED CO RSTEFFENS/APPROVED SCO
DSLAGHT)
MILES
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)From: Denis Cowan (dcowan@ozspace.brisnet.org.au)
Subject Intro to list Denis Cowan
My name is Denis Cowan and I am resident in Australia
I am a self employed organizational psychologist with my major interest
being in management development. My views on the role of management are
not traditional and are perceived by many to be naive and simplistic.
Obviously I do not share this view. I have been to Russia to work once.
I worked with the Nadym Town Council for 2 weeks. Doing group
facilitation through a translator was fascinating. I hope to return again
this year to continue my development.
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Sender: pw@shannon.tellabs.com (Peter Wise)
Subject: NEW-LIST: SUSDEV - Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe
I thought readers of this list would be interested in this announcement
extracted from:
NEW-LIST Digest - 8 May 1994 to 12 May 1994 - Special issue
Peter Wise,
Tellabs Ltd. ------------------------------------------
Shannon Industrial Estate, | Knowledge is as wings to man's life, |
Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland. | and a ladder for his ascent - |
Tel/Fax: +353-61-471433/471000 | Baha'u'llah. |
Email: pw@shannon.tellabs.com ------------------------------------------
Inclusion follows: ........................................................
)From: APONCE@IIF.KFKI.HU
Subject: NEW: SUSDEV - Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe
SUSDEV.TOPIC on ALMANAC@PARTI.INFORUM.ORG
SUSDEV is an electronic bulletin that collect original papers, review
papers, database descriptions or data compilations, book reviews,
notes, scientific events to this specialized Electronic Bulletin
Board for all aspects of Sustainable Development and the Environment.
Articles should be submitted in plain ASCII format through e-mail and
generally should not exceed 4 full pages of text. This initiative is
being supported by KFKI Research Institute for Measurement and
Computing Techniques in Budapest, Hungary.
Our aim is to setup a network in Central and Eastern European
Countries as a cooperative effort of universities, government,
business and non-profit organizations dedicated to the exchange of
scientific and practical information on sustainable development
systems. Topics covered in the Bulletin, the subject of the
articles, notes or events should be related to the environmental
impacts, relevant databases, and its evaluation and systematic
treatment. Topics include remediation actions and prevention from
further environmental damage
To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail
to ALMANAC@PARTI.INFORUM.ORG on the Internet:
SUBSCRIBE SUSDEV
Articles should be posted to SUSDEV.TOPIC@PARTI.INFORUM.ORG .
Owner: Prof. Nagy Arpad nagy_arpad.inbox@parti.inforum.org
Moderator: Ana Maria Ponce aponce@iif.kfki.hu
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)From: XKKT57A@prodigy.com (DR EVANS L ROTH) (by way of gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Greg Cole))
Subject: for digest
BIOTECHNOLOGY ST. PETERSBURG '94
SEPTEMBER 21-23
BIOTECHNOLOGY PRAGUE '94
NOVEMBER 10-12
EXPLORE RUSSIAN AND CZECH BIOTECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES. You can:
Understand Biotechnology developments in Central and Eastern Europe;
Meet R&D researchers,
Investigate their potential to be contractors and partners;
Investigate available patents;
Probe the latest legal developments for doing business in Russia
and the Czech Republic.
Technology Exchange with Central and Eastern Europe (TecExCEE) is a program
of Wm. Herbert Lewis, Inc. (WHL) and is designed to link researchers in CEE
universities and institutes with established American Biotechnology
researchers and companies in R&D strategic alliances. TecExCEE Conferences
cover current research in genetic engineering, pharmaceuticals,
biomaterials, medical devices, bioprocess engineering, agriculture, and
environmental pollution science.
Plenary sessions will overview research and national policies affecting
technology acquisitions and commercial policies. Concurrent
contributed-paper sessions will present over 60 contributed papers are by
CEE researchers at each conference and will describe R&D capabilities and
available property rights. All presentations will be in English.
BIOTECHNOLOGY ST. PETERSBURG '94 is co-sponsored by the Center for
Biotechnology and the Research Center for Agricultural Microbiology, both
in St. Petersburg; the Alliance of Universities for Democracy; and WHL.
Sessions will be in the Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
PLENARY SESSIONS will orient researchers to the technology-acquisition
activities of American corporations. It will include speakers from Eli
Lilly and Company, an agricultural biotechnology company, and the
Agriculture Program of the United States Agency for International
Development. Two other sessions are planned to orient both American and
Russian participants to policies and current practices in general business
development, biotechnology businesses, and patent polices in Russia.
PLANT PROTECTION AND HUMAN SECURITY, a workshop will be included at the
end of the Conference and is being organized by Dr. Eleonora Perusian, Head
of the large Department of Plant Genetic Engineering at the prestigious
Institute of Molecular Genetics in Moscow. The Workshop will be composed
of three half-day sessions.
CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONS: Over 100 abstracts have been received from
over 350 researchers. The number universities, companies, and research
institutes is 44, and more are being added. Although most are from St.
Petersburg, several are from elsewhere in Russia, and a few have also been
received from Minsk, Belarus.
The information below is subject to minor changes. For example, some
names ofInstitutes and titles of papers have not translated well and will
be clarified in the next few weeks.
HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
1. St. Petersburg State University
2. State Technical University
3. First Medical Institute
4. St. Petersburg Architectural University
COMPANIES
1. Agro-Test Research and Production Company
2. Petro-Mag Company
INSTITUTES
1. Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute
2. Institute of Cytology
3. Research Institute of Roentgenology and Radiology
4. Research and Technological Institute of Antibiotics and Enzymes
5. Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology
6. Psychoneurological Research Institute
7. Botanical Institute
8. Center of External Economic Connections and Scientific Research
9. Institute of Macromolecular Compounds
10. Institute of Hematology and Transfusiology
11. Institute for Hydrolysis of Plant Materials
12. Research Institute for Influenza
13. St. Petersburg Institute of Vaccines and Sera
14. Institute of Plant Industry
15. Institute for Lake Research
16. Research Institute of Oncology
17. Research Institute for Plant Protection
18. Pasteur Institute
19. Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding
20. Institute of Technology
21. Institute of Toxicology
22. Institute for Xenobiotics Research
23. Institute of Highly Pure Biopreparations
24. Fats and Oils Research Institute
25. Nuclear Physics Institute
26. Institute for Agricultural Microbiology
27. Institute of Experimental Medicine
28. Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics
29. Institute for Analytical Instrumentation
30. Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics
31. Institute of Physics
32. Pavlov Institute of Physiology
33. Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
34. Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography
35. Research Institute for the Peat Industry
36. Research Institute for Food Flavors, Acids, and Dyes
37. Research Institute "Domen"
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTE FROM BELARUS
1. Institute of Genetics and Cytology
BIOTECHNOLOGY PRAGUE '94 is co-sponsored by the Czech Technical
University, the Charles University, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the
Czech Biomedical Society, the Alliance of universities
for Democracy, and WHL. Participation will be announced by late June.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Dr. L. Evans Roth, Wm. Herbert Lewis, Inc.
INTERNET: xkkt57a@prodigy.com Fax: 615 637-5376
507 Cherokee Boulevard, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919-6615, USA
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Daily Digest for May 27, 1994
[NOTE: This information is a little "dated" now but we wanted to go
ahead and send so that all subscribers would have all the
digests that have been sent recently. ]
Dear friends,
Just a short note to let you know that we will resume tomorrow the
production of the daily digests. Your moderators offer a most sincere
apology for our long and very unplanned absence from the service. A
brief note of explanation follows.
As mentioned in the last daily digest (sent on May 15), the moderators
of this service, Natasha and Greg, met for the first
time on May 19 -- in St. Petersburg, Russia. Greg and his wife Monica
have travelled since May 13 -- to Prague and Brno in the Czech
Republic and then on to Russia where they spent several days in
St. Petersburg and the remainder of our stay in Pushchino and
Moscow. (we return to Knoxville on Sunday, May 29)
The trip has been a wonderful experience on all counts except that
we have been a little less-than-connected due to lack of
network access and a very hectic travel schedule.
We will have much, much good news to share over the next several days about
the many days of talking and planning we have been able to spend
together. Will be back in touch soon.
Natasha and Greg
Greg Cole
Research Services
The University of Tennessee Phone: (615) 974-2908
211 Hoskins Library FAX: (615) 974-6508
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu