Daily Digest for 94-06-04
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RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-04 June 94 Sender: waterman@registrar.umass.edu
Subject: Request Info re Abrikosovas (Moscow - 1892-1936)
#02-04 June 94 Sender: Kathy Schatzberg" (schatzbe@vanilla.r.umn.edu)
Subject: Introduction
#03-04 June 94 Sender: Ian Kallen (ikallen@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu)
Subject: Two things: Russica and PSSRI
#04-04 June 94 Sender: avoronov@glas.apc.org (Anatoly A. Voronov)
Subject: Modem Hunt Again?
#05-04 June 94 Sender: Steve Jaquess (sjaquess@teetot.acusd.edu)
Subject: Re: A@G Newsletters from Russia
#06-04 June 94 Sender: JohnS426@aol.com
Subject: Apology
#07-04 June 94 Sender: as@iok.unit.no (Anders Stoelan)
Subject: Transport analysis in Russia
#08-04 June 94 Sender: Kurt.Reisser@oryx.com
Subject: Creation of Petroleum Newsgroup
#09-04 June 94 Sender: "Andrey I. Tarasenko" (post@kassi.nsu.nsk.su)
Subject: Novosibirsk State University
#10-04 June 94 Sender: Laurie Harrison (lharriso@sti.nasa.gov)
Subject: FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS COORDINATOR
#11-04 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Russian Language Training
#12-04 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: NIS Exchanges and Training (NET) Project: Call
for Short Term Technical Training Support in
the US...
#13-04 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Consortia of American Businesses in Newly
Independent States
#14-04 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Curriculum Development in Civics Education for
Russia
#15-04 June 94 Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu
(Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Curriculum Fellowships for Russian University
Teachers
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Sender: waterman@registrar.umass.edu
Subject: Request Info re Abrikosovas (Moscow - 1892-1936)
My colleague and I are researching the life of Anna Ivanova Abrikosova
(1892-1936) amd Vladimir Vladimirovic Abrikosova. They were quite well
known during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Anna later became known as
Ekaterina, foundress of the Dominican Third Order in Moscow. If
anybody has any information regarding this couple, we would appreciate
it if you would let us know, please send information to:
waterman@registrar.umass.edu
Thank you.
Gail
6/2/94
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Sender: "Kathy Schatzberg" (schatzbe@vanilla.r.umn.edu)
Subject: Introduction
As I have just subscribed to FRIENDS, allow me to introduce myself.
I am Kathleen Schatzberg (the Russian name that I acquired many years ago
when I began to study Russian is Katya). I am the academic dean at a
community college in Minnesota, USA, and have a great interest in
maintaining old contacts and developing new ones in Russia. I have been
studying Russian on and off for more than 30 years, but consider myself
barely functionally capable in using Russian: in other words, I can get by
reading newspapers (with a dictionary and plenty of time) and on the street
and in social situations because the Russian people have been so generously
patient with me in my efforts to make myself understood. I first visited
Russia (Moscow & St. Petersburg, plus Tblisi & Yalta) in 1990 and twice
organized groups of U.S. faculty and administrators to visit Russia and
through this work, gained many new friends in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Sometime, I hope to be able to arrange to live there for an extended time,
because of course I will never become truly fluent until I do.
I am particularly hoping to find the internet addresses for:
1. Anastasia Posadskaya, who is director of the Gender Studies Institute
at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow;
2. Alexander Sarchev (Sasha), who is an economist with (if memory serves
me well, and if the name hasn't changed since last summer) Moscow Interbank;
3. Marina and Alexander (Sasha) Badkhen, who are connected with an
organization called the Harmony (Garmonia) Institute in St. Petersburg; she
is a translator and he is a psychologist and was one of the founders of the
Institute which provides therapeutic services for the general public and
training for psychologists.
I have telephone and FAX numbers, of course, as well as postal addresses.
Mail, however, is completely unreliable and in my current position, I can
use internet freely but international phone calls and FAXes don't relate
directly to my job, so, any help anyone on this net can give me in finding
internet addresses for moy tovarishchi will be greatly appreciated.
Balshoya spaceeba!
(It's difficult enough for me to write in Russian--trying to transliterate
to English alphabet is really not easy for me. Is there any way to use
Cyrillic alphabet characters on the internet?)
In friendship,
Katya
Kathleen Schatzberg, Dean of Academic Affairs,
Rochester Community College, 851 30th Ave. SE, Rochester, MN 55904
Tel: 507-285-7256 (=======) FAX: 507-285-7496
schatzbe@vanilla.r.umn.edu
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Sender: Ian Kallen (ikallen@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu)
Subject: Two things: Russica and PSSRI
Hi all-
Anybody on the list able to get me up to speed on "Russica Information
Inc."? Or "Dialogue" - AKA "SovInfoLink"?
There's a bookstore in Manhattan called Russica, that's not the
information service I'm looking for! These are some kind of commercial
on-line information providers...I'm interested in property rights as
defined in the post-Soviet legislation and I came across some material
mentioning "Russica."
BTW - some of the other requests for sources that have been showing up
on the various lists could have been answered by reading "Post Soviet Study
Resources on the Internet" in the CERRO archive or perusing the primordial
hypertexted version:
go http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ikallen/pssri.html
I'm working on updating the document as best I can given the constraints
of being unfunded (at least currently). If you want instructions on getting
the whole kit n kaboodle from the CERRO archive (it's 263kb!) send a blank
message with "how to get PSSRI" in the subject line. This is manual
transmission now; I'll shift the gears-I'll reply with instructions
without reading any text you include in the message and I'll delete it
immediately after replying. If you have anything substantive to say don't
use that subject line!
Ian
ikallen@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
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Date: Thu, 26 May 94 21:41 +0400
)From: avoronov@glas.apc.org (Anatoly A. Voronov)
Subject: Modem Hunt Again?
/* Written 9:25 pm May 26, 1994 by avoronov@glas.apc.org in
glas:glas.managemen */
/* ---------- "Modem Hunt Again?" ---------- */
In Internet Society News, Vol 1, No.2, I published a translation of the
article "Spring Modem Hunt in Moscow: Happy Fools' Day, Gentlemen!" from
COMMERSANT Weekly, No. 13, March 23-30, 1992.
The article informed about the plans of MGTS (Moscow City Telephone Network)
to make the modem owners register them. MGTS wanted to charge organizations
using modems for "commercial purposes" 50,000 rubles per year ($312.5 at
ruble/dollar exchange rate of 160, as it was on March 23-30). Other
organizations were supposed to pay 1296 rubles per year ($8.1).The author of
the article was skeptical regarding the ability of MGTS to enforce that
decision, and was right: in two years nothing happened.
But now, we probably must admit that MGTS were damn serious. Moscow bi-weekly
EKSTRA-M, in its issue of May 16, 1994, in the article "There'll Be Phones,
But Expensive, And Not For All" by Aliona Shevchenko, writes:
If you want to install, at home or in your office, a fax or a modem, don't
forget to register it. Registration of a fax or a modem doesn't cost much:
only 4.5 thousand rubles ($2.36), and if it is not officially certified, add
some thousand rubles for the expertise. But the monthly fee (26 thousand
rubles, or $13.7) will make you think twice whether you ought to have it
registered.
If you want to have problems, avoid the registration, at your own risk. If you
are caught by chance, you'll be asked to proceed with registration, and if you
refuse, your phone will be cut. But MGTS hope the citizens are honest and
conscious, though according to the Russian saying "Trust, but verufy", will
soon implement a system for hunting the offenders'.
Gentlemen, I consider this as the major threat to democracy and right of the
free exchange of information, even more serious than the coup of August 1991.
According to the ordenance of Mr. Vasiliev, General Director of MGTS,
effective May 1st, 1994, any fax owner must pay for the fact of having it,
56.000 rubles ($29.4) per month! That is, in less than a year you must pay
more than the fax machine value!
If this measure is enforced, the Internet will be dead in Russia. Nobody will
be able to pay almost $14 per month for only having a modem. Such amount is an
average GlasNet user monthly bill. The state-owned monopoly, MGTS, will simply
strangulate electronic networking in Russia.
I urge all persons concerned with the future of computer networking to take
immediate and firm action against the attempt of inefficient and obsolete
monsters like MGTS to make money with no effort, and suppressing the natural
right of the people to the free exchange of information.
Anatoly Voronov
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Sender: Steve Jaquess (sjaquess@teetot.acusd.edu)
Subject: Re: A@G Newsletters from Russia
A@G NEWS FROM RUSSIA are AVAILABLE via EMAIL now.
A@G News from Russia is a set of information selected from all main Russian
newspapers and divided into 7 sections - newsletters: Markets, Financial
News, Politics, Legislation, Company News, Privatization and St.Petersburg
News.
This message contains HEADLINES of A@G News #57, May 17. Full texts of A@G
WEEKLY newsletters (4-6 kb each) are available for subscribers (not free).
Send email to internet:SPBEAC@SOVAM.COM for details.
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A@G NEWS FROM RUSSIA
May 17, 1994
#57
* COMPANY NEWS *
1. IN THE FIRST QUATER OF 1994 THE NUMBER OF UNPROFITABLE INDUSTRIAL
ENTERPRISES INCREASED MORE THAN TWICE IN RUSSIA.
2. THE FIRM "GALICKA" FORMED BY 10 LARGEST ITALIAN AND SWISS METALLURGICAL
AND MASHINE-TOOL CONCERNS JOINED THE RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION "SOYUZE
AVIATCION- NOGO DVIGATELESTROENIJA" (ASSAD) (Union of aircraft engine
building).
3. "DELTA AIRLINES" OPENED A NEW FLIGHT: St.Petersburg - Helsinki - New-
York.
* FINANCIAL NEWS *
1. US $ RATE CHANGE (Rb/$) AND THE TURNOVER (mln $) AT THE MOSCOW INTERBANK
CURRENCY MARKET: May 10 - 1859 (44.0), May 12 - 1869 (10.8).
2. RUSSIAN BUDGET IS FINANCED AT THE EXPENSE OF ISSUE.
3. POTENCIAL SOURCES OF INFLATION - LARGE FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT AND DEBTS
TO A NUMBER OF BRANCHES.
4. VOLUME OF STOCK SALES AT ST.PETERSBURG EXTRA-EXCHANGE MARKET.
5. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION STATE DUMA SUPPORTED A BILL "ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET
FOR 1994" IN THE FIRST READING.
6. THE CENTRAL BANK DECREASED PRICES FOR ITS CREDITS - A LOT OF DIFFERENT
PROGNOSES.
* LEGISLATION *
1. A NEW LAND CODE OF RUSSIA HAS BEEN PREPARED.
2. BANKS ARE PROHIBITED TO CHARGE EXTRA COMMISSION FOR ISSUING OF A FOREIGN
EXCHANGE EXPORT PERMIT TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
3. THE MOSCOW ANTIMONOPOLY COMMITTEE IS BECOMING MORE ACTIVE.
4. DUTY REVENUES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INCREASED AND DUTY SIZES - TO BE
DECREASED.
* MARKETS *
1. LAND MARKET IN THE LENINGRAD REGION.
2. THE PROSPECTS OF THE RUSSIAN GRAIN MARKET.
3. MAIL TARIFFS ARE INCREASED.
4. THE ULYANOVSK AUTOMOBILE WORKS DECREASED PRICES FOR ITS CARS AND SPARE
PARTS.
* POLITICS *
1. FORMATION OF THE UNION OF COMMUNIST PARTIES ACCORDING TO THE COMMUNIST
INTERNATIONAL MODEL WAS PROCLAIMED.
2. COAL MINERS IN VORKUTA ARE STILL WAITING...
3. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR THE NUMBER OF THE UNEMPLOYED REGISTERED
HAS INCREASED BY 250 000 PEOPLE.
4. RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN FRONTIER.
5. THE COMMITTEE FOR MORDOVIA HAS BEEN FORMED BY THE PRESIDENT'S DECREE.
6. MONTHLY TRIPS OF ESTONIAN AND RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS BOTH TO MOSCOW AND TO
TALLIN SEEM TO MAKE NO SENSE AT ALL.
* PRIVATIZATION *
1. PRIVATIZATION CHEQUES RATE IN RUSSIA MAY 12.
2. THE MOSCOW GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO BECOME THE PROPRIETOR OF 50% OF THE
MOSCOW ENTERPRISES.
3. THERE WILL BE NO COMPETITION AT THE INVESTMENT TENDERS IN THE NEAR
FUTURE.
4. THE ST.PETERSBURG PROPERTY FUND ACTIVITY
5. ASSOCIATION "INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS": "ABOUT HALF OF RUSSIANS WHO
CHANGED
THEIR VOUCHERS FOR SHARES OF COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE DUPED".
6 THE RESULTS OF THE MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE IRKOOTSK
AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.
* ST.PETERSBURG NEWS *
1. ROSTROPOVICH BUILDS A HOUSE FOR WORLD WAR II VETERANS.
2. GERMAN PROJECTS IN ST.PETERSBURG.
3. A DEBT OF THE CITY TO THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE WILL BE PAID TO THE KIROV
PLANT.
4. THE MAYOR'S DECREE JEOPARDIZES EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES.
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A & G Information Services
Editor: Elena Artemova
P.O. Box 313, 199397 St.Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: spbeac@sovam.com
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Sender: JohnS426@aol.com
Subject: Apology
Greetings Friends,
I must apologize to any friends who have been trying to reach me since 9 May.
I had several valuable conversations going directly with list members when my
system crashed on 3 may. My mailbox filled with 500 messages on 9 May and I
fear any posts since then were rejected. It took three weeks to determine the
hard disk was totally destroyed and to find and install a new one plus
reinstall all systems. A word to the wise you have heard before - backup
everything.
Hope to hear from many of your all soon'
John Sloan
johns426@aol.com
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Sender: as@iok.unit.no (Anders Stoelan)
Subject: Transport analysis in Russia
I am representing The Transport and Logistics Research Group at SINTEF.
We want to get in touch with scientists and/or consultants working with
transport analysis in Russia. Particularly we want contact with russians
working with transport analysis in Noth-West Russia.
If this is of any interest, please email me some information about what
you and/or your institution have done in transport analysis and your
future plans in this field.
Some information about our institution :
Projects related to transport and logistics in Russia
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SINTEF's Transport and Logistics Research Group has recently
finished the project design and description of activities in a
transport analysis project - the effect of investments in specific
ports and railway-connections - in the Barents Sea Euro-Arctic
Region (report in Russian and Norwegian).
The main project is scheduled as a joint work where among others
- the regional branch of the October Railway Company,
- mining companies at the Kola Peninsula,
- researchers at the Kola Science Centre in Apatity/Murmansk and
- regional authorities in Norway and Russia
participate.
The Barents Sea Euro-Arctic Region, which geographically covers
Murmansk, Archangelsk and Karelen counties in Russia and the
northernmost counties of Norway, Sweden and Finland, is a regional
co-operation both on the national level (Barents Council) and
regional level (Barents Regional Council). This project is funded by
these Council authorities.
Units in the Transport and Logistics Research Group are also
participating in a research programme (INSROP) for the International
Northern Sea Route (the "North-East Passage").
The Transport and Logistics Research Group at SINTEF
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The Transport and Logistics Research Group at SINTEF is an
interdisciplinary project group, established 1992 to initiate main
research projects in the transport and logistics field.
The group consists of the following participating operational units
in the SINTEF Group:
Unit Field:
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SINTEF Transport Engineering Transport engineering and
planning/transport models
SINTEF Highway Engineering Highway and railroad engineering
SINTEF Production Engineering Production engineering/ logistics
SINTEF Applied Economics Regional economics/ operational research
SINTEF DELAB Information technology
SINTEF MARINTEK Sea transportation
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Our activities include among other utilisation of the goods
transport model STAN.
This canadian-developed model is used in strategic planning for
combined transportation in several Nordic and European countries.
The SINTEF Group
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The SINTEF Group in Trondheim, Norway performs contract research and
development for industry and the public sector. The SINTEF Group is
the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia. The
Group performs projects primarily in technology, but also in the
natural sciences, medicine and the social sciences. At the beginning
of 1994, the SINTEF Group had 2.140 employees (of whom 1.256 were
researchers) in Trondheim and Oslo. A further 281 persons are
employed on project or limited-duration contracts.
SINTEF has it roots in the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH)
and the Group collaborates closely with NTH and other sections of
the University of Trondheim. The collaboration involves specialists
working together on projects, with joint use of laboratories and
equipment.
Yours sincerely,
Anders Stoelan
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)From: Anders Stoelan
SINTEF Applied Economics
N-7034 Trondheim, Norway
tel: +47-73-593611
fax: +47-73-593603
email: as@iok.unit.no
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Sender: Kurt.Reisser@oryx.com
Subject: Creation of Petroleum Newsgroup
Dear Greg and Natasha,
We are attempting to create an electronic petroleum newsgroup and are
hoping toenlist the support of geologists and geophysicists worldwide.
It is our hope to include the scientific community in Russia and the other
republics of the former Soviet Union. Scientific institutes specializing
in all aspects of petroleum exploration and development are recognised and
respected worldwide. We hope that fellow scientists may join in creating
and using this electronic forum.
Sincerely,
Kurt Reisser
Geologist, Oryx Energy Company - Dallas Texas
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CREATION OF A GLOBAL ELECTRONIC PETROLEUM NEWSGROUP
Individual and organizational support requested
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29 May, 1994 (campaign start)
A new initiative is being launched to create an electronic petroleum
newsgroup on InterNet, aimed to provide a global forum for informal
discussion of all aspects related to petroleum exploration and production.
This initiative is being spear-headed by explorationists and production
geologists, petroleum engineers, service company personnel and petroleum
researchers in North America, Europe and Australia.
Professional organizations such as the AAPG (incl. AAPG Computer Committee),
the Dallas Geological Society, the Formation Evaluation Society of Victoria
(a chapter of SPWLA), SPE etc. have been notified.
Access to this planned petroleum newsgroup on InterNet would be at your own
convenience, via your work station either at work or from home. For those
unfamiliar with the electronic newsgroups, they are an international 'open'
conferencing system resembling a 'bulletin board' with literally thousands
of newsgroups spanning the range of science, computer technology, finance
and other topics. Individual access is via a public domain 'news-reader'
program or via email on your PC. Please check with your systems manager
for further technical details.
If you would like to be kept informed of the newsgroup progress, future
status changes, and the exact time and e-mail address to place your vote
(see, "The Process of Creating a Newsgroup," below) then please send the
message "ADD ME TO YOUR SCI.GEO.PETROLEUM MAILING LIST" to:
XXXXXXXX (your e-mail address here)
OR: IN%"XXXXXXXXXX" (depending on your setup)
This e-mail account represents one of a number of server stations worldwide
that are being used to coordinate this effort. E&P staff at the following
organizations have to date volunteered to supervise project coordination:
Arco (Alaska), Arco (Texas), BHPP (Houston), BHPP (Melbourne), BP
Proposed Name of Group
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sci.geo.petroleum (unmoderated)
Objective of New Newsgroup
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The purpose of sci.geo.petroleum is to provide an informal electronic
conference venue for specialists of varying backgrounds employed by, or
associated with, the oil and gas industry. It is hoped that this
state-of-the-art method of communication will accelerate advancements in
petroleum technology, leading to the more efficient recovery of
hydrocarbons and further improvements in health and safety and
environmental protection.
This newsgroup will allow the rapid and timely discussion of E&P issues
that would normally take months or years in journals or at international
conferences.
Topics for discussion would include :-
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Exploration technology
Production technology
Development technology
Drilling technology
Transport technology
Reservoir Uncertainty
Research and development
Reservoir simulation
Environmental goals (minimize impacts)
Facility Uncertainty
Software
Hardware/Equipment - specifications, opinions, etc.
Databases
Applications
Announcements/reviews of papers/conferences.
General discussion/opinions/questions.
Positions vacant
Professional news
Economic issues
Health
Safety and OSHA standards (minimize Loss Time Accidents)
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The Process of Creating a Newsgroup
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(a) RFD: Request for Discussion, i.e.., public hearing to take place in
the newsgroup news.groups on InterNet for approximately one month
(b) CFV: Call for votes (the voting period will be about 25 days)
(c) Counting of votes and public display of votes (we intend to negotiate
an exemption to the latter rule)
(d) Announcement of new newsgroup
(a)--)(b) assumes no major disagreements about this newsgroup during
discussion.
(c)--)(d) assumes that the vote is favourable.,
i.e., Y ) N+100 .and. Y ) (2/3)(Y+N)
Y being the number of YES votes, N being the number of NO votes for the
creation of the proposed newsgroup.
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Please send comments/criticisms/suggestions you may have via e-mail to ONE
of the e-mail addresses below [your nearest contact; please highlight if
you have already registered your interest elsewhere]:
Andy Austin (austinaz@txpcap.hou.xwh.bp.com) [Houston]
or James Huang (jhu@scandpower.no) [Oslo]
or Jim Jennings (jwj@Arco.COM) [Plano, Texas]
or Dr. Jorg Schulz-Rojahn (cooper@pet2.ncpgg.adelaide.edu.au) [Adelaide]
or Kurt Reisser (Kurt.Reisser@oryx.com) [Dallas]
or Prof. Mike F. Middleton (middlet@geo.chalmers.se) [Gothenburg]
or Mike Walker (aawalmi@bhppmel.bhp.com.au) [Melbourne]
or Son Do (laeshd@aai.arco.com) [Anchorage]
or Will Morse (bhppa@sugar.neosoft.com) [Houston]
or Andrew J.S. Wilson (Andrew.J.S.Wilson@edinburgh.ac.uk) [Edinburgh]
Western Atlas International
We hope that you will support this initiative.
Please bring to our attention if there are additional petroleum organizations
or petroleum research centers on the InterNet.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Sender: "Andrey I. Tarasenko" (post@kassi.nsu.nsk.su)
Subject: Novosibirsk State University
ATTENTION, FRIENDS:
Are you thinking of studying abroad? Are you trying to decide
where to go? Then you are welcome to think about Novosibirsk
State University, Siberia and its ever widening world! You can
be studying as soon as next semester. You won't regret it! On
the contrary, you'll likely only regret not having gone
sonner.
Allow us to tell you about the choices available to you at
Novosibirsk State University. NSU offers an unparalleled
opportunity to study in a special academic enviroment located
in one of Russia's most prestigious scientific establishements.
NSU offers challenging and innovative programs for graduates
in physics and mathematics, chemistry, biology, economics,
sociology, geology and geophysics, computer science, history,
philosophy and philology. NSU has close links with research
institutes in Akademgorodok, which promotes a high level of
teaching and quick establishment of curricula in line with the
latest scientific achievements.
Foreign students are admitted to NSU by KASSI International
which is affiliated with NSU and aims at developing
educational and business relations between academic and
scientific establishments of other countries. Providing
services specifically for NSU's international students, KASSI
offers these students a number of comprehensive orientation
programs. The development of Russian language opportunities is
one of the main areas of KASSI's activity. While its standard
Russian language program focuses on scientific translation and
Russian culture, KASSI is unique in its ability to cater to
the specific needs of its students whatever their area of
interest. All level of Russian language ability are
instructed, from absolute beginners to advanced. Language
classes for individuals and groups are conducted by
experienced and competent teachers from NSU.
For more information contact:
Evgeny Sagaidak
International Education Department Head
KASSI International
Novosibirsk State University
2, Pirogova Street
630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
Tel.: +7 (3832) 35 30 23
Fax: +7 (3832) 35 26 53
Telex: 133242 KASSI SU
E-mail: POST@KASSI.NSU.NSK.SU
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Sender: Laurie Harrison (lharriso@sti.nasa.gov)
Subject: FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS COORDINATOR
FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS COORDINATOR
NASA contractor is seeking a Foreign Translations Coordinator to administer
the NASA Center for AeroSpace Information Foreign Translations Program.
Functions include user request service; cost and delivery arrangements;
quality control; accounting and financial tracking; contractual document
development and occasional in-house foreign language translations. Must have
BS/BA and demonstrated written and oral fluency in Russian and at least one
other foreign language. Working knowledge of various transliteration schemes
and a general knowledge of numerous languages including foreign languages
using roman alphabetic, cyrillic alphabetic, arabic alphabet, as well as
idiographic languages; and working knowledge of PC-based English and non-
English word processors, and dBASE required. Knowledge of online bibliographic
systems and electronic utilities such as CompuServe and Internet desirable.
RMS offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits including free
parking. Send resume to Geri Hensel, RMS Associates, 800 Elkridge Landing
Road, Linthicum, MD 21090. EOE/M/F/D/V.
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Russian Language Training
Russian Language Training
AGENCY: Peace Corps
PROGRAM: Russian Language Training Peace Corps is
considering procuring 17 days of intensive Russian Language
Training for prospective volunteers prior to departure to
Russia. The contractor shall provide the necessary
qualified personnel, facilities, materials and implement an
experientially-based language training program for the Peace
Corps in accordance with all requirements outlined in the
Peace Corps Statement of Work. Language training will be
based on Competency Based Communication Method of language
acquisition. The language training will be total immersion
method, including the use of multimedia (interactive
videodisc) learning centers complete with Russian multimedia
software. The training timeframe is June 29 through July
15, 1994.
QUALIFICATIONS: Firms having these requisite capabilities
are invited to submit complete details of their training
capabilities to the contracting officer.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Commerce Business Daily, 05/13/94 pg.
DEADLINES: 06/29/94
CONTACT:
Office of Contracts
1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20526
ATTN: Ronald Dunaway
PHONE: 202 606 3515
RFP NUMBER: SYNOPSIS NO. 94-4
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: NIS Exchanges and Training (NET) Project: Call for Short
Term Technical Training Support in the US for Citizens of
NIS Exchanges and Training (NET) Project: Call for Short
Term Technical Training Support in the US for Citizens of
AGENCY: Academy for Educational Development
PROGRAM: The NIS Exchanges and Training (NET) Project will
provide training opportunities in the United States over the
next three years for mid- to senior-level managers in public
and private sector organizations in the countries of the NIS
- Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The majority of NET training
progams will be short-term (three-six weeks) and combine
classroom and observation activities. Training groups will
average 15-20 people and instruction will be offered either
in a group's native language or through simultaneous
interpretation provided by professional interpreters.
Training objectives will support activities in the following
sectors: agribusiness and agricultural economics, business
development, democratic initiatives, economic restructuring,
energy, environment, health, housing, and private voluntary
organization development.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Commerce Business Daily, 05/24/94 pg.
DEADLINES: OPEN
CONTACT:
NET Project
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20009
PHONE:
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Consortia of American Businesses in Newly Independent States
Consortia of American Businesses in Newly Independent States
AGENCY: Department of Commerce
PROGRAM: The purpose of the CABNIS program is to promote the
export of U.S. goods and services to the NIS. The consortia
strengthen the U.S. business presence in the NIS by
facilitating two-way trade and enhancing host country
private sector development. The consortia are expected to
support private sector development through such activities
as technical training, assisting with defense plant
conversion projects, finding markets for NIS products,
promoting U.S. investment and U.S.-NIS joint ventures, and
working with or helping to form indigenous counterpart trade
organizations such as trade associations.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. nonprofit organizations are invited to
apply.
MONETARY SUPPORT: $1.5 million in FY 1994. Individual
CABNIS awards will not exceed $500,000 and must be matched
by the award recipient with nonfederal resources.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Miscellaneous
DEADLINES: OPEN
CONTACT:
Office of Export Trading Company Affairs
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Herbert Clark Hoover Building, Room 1800
Washington, DC 20230
ATTN: W. Dawn Busby
PHONE:
RFP NUMBER: 410-3172
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Curriculum Development in Civics Education for Russia
Curriculum Development in Civics Education for Russia
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: United States Information Agency invites
applications from U.S. educational institutions to develop a
30-day group program for approximately 15 professionals
involved in secondary-level education from Russia. Program
participants will be interested in curriculum reform to
introduce and strengthen civics education in Russia. The
long-term goal of this 30-day program is to assist
participants to develop a framework for civic education that
comprises democratic concepts, values and practices, to
apply to national, regional, and local curriculum reform in
Russia. The program alos should introduce participants to
civic education as it is taught at the secondary school
level in the United States Review of the content of relevant
courses and discussion of teaching methodologies should
provide participants with a foundation on which the
development of a new, strengthened program in civic
education could be based.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. educational institutions and public and
private nonprofit organizations.
MONETARY SUPPORT: Total institute costs funded by USIA may
not exceed $150,000 for 15 participants; within the
assistance award total institutional administrative costs
funded by USIA may not exceed $45,000. Grants awarded to
eligible organizations with less than four years experience
in conducting international exchange programs will be
limited to $60,000.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 05/20/94 pg. 26560
DEADLINES: 06/29/94
CONTACT:
Office of Grants Management
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 336
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Gretchen Christison
PHONE: 202 691 4557
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Sender: funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Funding Opportunities System)
Subject: Curriculum Fellowships for Russian University Teachers
Curriculum Fellowships for Russian University Teachers
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The United States Information Agency is inviting
applications for fellowships for Russian university teachers
to pursue individual programs in social science fields at
U.S. universities and research institutions. Programs
should expose participants to materials acquisition,
scholarly networking and orientation to empirical methods
and other approaches.
QUALIFICATIONS: U.S. colleges and universities. Individual
Russian participants must be university-level teachers in
social science fields, including political science,
sociology and economics.
MONETARY SUPPORT: The maximum grant is $250,000.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 05/23/94 pg. 26696
DEADLINES: 06/29/94
CONTACT:
Study of the U.S. Branch
E/AAS
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 256
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Gretchen Christison
PHONE: 202 619 4557
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