Daily Digest for 94-06-22
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-22 June 94 Announcement of additional news resource
#02-22 June 94 "Access Russia" information catalog of products
#03-22 June 94 A&G News Service Announced
#04-22 June 94 June 20, 1994 issue of RUSAG-L Update
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-22 June 94 Sender: Dave Wells (wellsd@elwha.evergreen.edu)
Subject: Return from St. Petersburg
#02-22 June 94 Sender: Don Reid (don_reid@ccnet.com)
Subject: Al-Anon in Salavat, Russia
#03-22 June 94 Sender: Nikonenko (nikon@phch.kuban.su)
Subject: request
#04-22 June 94 Sender: Leonid Frid (frid@agroinf.msk.su)
Subject: info
#05-22 June 94 Sender: Funding Opportunities System
(funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: USIA Regional Scholar Exchange Program
#06-22 June 94 Sender: Funding Opportunities System
(funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: USIA Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange Program
#07-22 June 94 Sender: Funding Opportunities System
(funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: College Exchange Student Program
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* We announce an additional news resource which is now available from
the News section.
This service will include information from various media sources
pertaining to Central / Eastern Europe and the countries of the former
Soviet Union. We are grateful to Legi-Slate, Inc. for their permission
to post articles from their commercial service and are grateful, in
particular, to Ann E. Harris of Legis-late who has worked with Tammy
Benshoof in our office to make this new service possible.
Also, John Gerber in the UT Office of Research Services has created
a flexible posting mechanism which will permit us to keep this service
up-to-date with a minimum of personnel time.
* "Access Russia" by Russia Information Services brings together in one
place the finest and most useful publications on Russia and the CIS, of both
Western and Russian manufacture. In all, over 120 products
of four dozen publishers and companies are featured on these
pages -- which are now on-line on the Friends and Partners WWW server.
You will find here descriptions of everything from travel guides,
language aids, directories and reference books, general reading, maps,
periodicals, etc. Available from the Services page . . .
Our thanks to Nan Dalton (of UT Research Services) who has put together
this valuable and unique resource (one of the first of its kind on
the Internet) and to the nice folks at Russia Information Services for
their permission to publish this valuable information resource.
* A&G News Service Announced. A description is now available on-line
from the Services page about this subscription-based news service.
* New June 20 issue of the RUSAG-L agricultural news update is available
from the agricultural page (available from the Science page).
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: Dave Wells (wellsd@elwha.evergreen.edu)
Subject: Return from St. Petersburg
I would like to thank everyone who so graciously advised me and helped me
make contacts in St Petersburg.
I had a wonderful time and was able to establish some relationships that
will allow me to pursue the reasearch I have wanted to do. I hope that I
will be able to go again in the Spring (grant-dependent).
Thanks
Dave Wells
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Sender: Don Reid (don_reid@ccnet.com)
Subject: Al-Anon in Salavat, Russia
I'm interested in contacting anyone in Salavat, Russia, who is a member
of the Al-Anon Family Group there. I may be contacted at don_reid@ccnet.com.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide.
Don Reid
Walnut Creek, California
don_reid@ccnet.com
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)From: Nikonenko (nikon@phch.kuban.su)
Subject: request
Aaron Trehub suggested that I contact you for information about
agencies in the US that might support a grant for a cooperative
program to improve teaching at a Russian university. For the
past several months I have been living in Krasnodar, and have
taught a course on recent American history at Kuban State
University (in Russian). I had more than one occasion to
observe how poor the library is, and how badly this university
could use some funds. There are also many opportunities for
research here in the Russian south that might afford quite a
different picture than one gains from Moscow or Petersburg.
Although I do have access to the Internet I can't arrange a real
time connection using telnet. I and my colleagues here would
most appreciate it if you could send us a list of agencies that
might provide funding for the needs I have indicated above.
Thanks much for your help.
Robert D. Givens
Cornell College
Mount Vernon, IA
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Sender : Leonid Frid (frid@agroinf.msk.su)
Subject: info
Hello to all at F and P. I am in Moscow now until August and need
input about 2 things.Does anyone out there know if there are any
self service laundry businesses near the Novoslobodska metro or anywhere
else in the city maybe ? The other is I am trying to find a place to
buy night vision optical devices (new or used) for the lowest price
provided it is legal to do so and bring back into the USA. Can anyone
help? Please e-mail me back at trob@freenet.scri.fsu.edu and not at the
Moscow address. Hope to hear from someone soon.
thanks,
Tom
--
Leonid Frid. (095)208-2478
E-mail: frid@agroinf.msk.su, Fido: 2:5020/35.3 aka 2:5020/159.28
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Sender: Funding Opportunities System (funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: USIA Regional Scholar Exchange Program
USIA Regional Scholar Exchange Program
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The U.S. Information Agency invites applications
for short- and long-term pre- and postdoctoral research
exchanges in the humanities and social sciences with
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
QUALIFICATIONS: Nonprofit organizations with at least four
years experience in international exchange activities.
MONETARY SUPPORT: $1.3 million for short-term exchanges of
less than six months and $240,000 for long-term exchanges of
up to an academic year.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/16/94 pg. 30958
DEADLINES: 08/01/94
CONTACT:
Academic Exchanges Division
European Branch, E/AEE
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 246
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Ted Kniker
PHONE: 202 619 5341
RFP NUMBER: E/AEE-95-02
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Sender : Funding Opportunities System (funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: USIA Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange Program
USIA Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange Program
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The U.S. Information Agency is inviting proposals
for projects to conduct exchanges of youths age 21 and
younger with Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Croatia,
Slovenia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macdeonia, or
the Newly Independent States of Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. USIA
will fund exchanges under two categories: School-to-School
Exchanges directly link an American elementary, middle or
high school with their foreign counterparts; and General
Youth Exchanges include semester- and year-long high school
study exchange projects, or short-term exchanges with a
thematic focus such as the arts, language and culture,
science, technology and mathematics, conservation and the
environment, and museum training.
QUALIFICATIONS: High schools, school districts, exchange
organizations and other nonprofit groups.
MONETARY SUPPORT: School-to-School Exchanges--maximum grants
are $15,000; and General Youth Exchanges--maximum grants are
$75,000.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/16/94 pg. 30975
DEADLINES: 09/02/94
CONTACT:
Office of Citizen Exchanges
E/PY
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 314
Washington, DC 20547
PHONE:
RFP NUMBER: E/P-95-03
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Sender: Funding Opportunities System (funding@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: College Exchange Student Program
College Exchange Student Program
AGENCY: United States Information Agency
PROGRAM: The U.S. Information Agency is inviting
applications for projects in Baltic countries, Newly
Independent States and Central and Eastern Europe. The
Presidents' University Student Exchange Program and the
Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange, which involve exchanges
with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmeistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan; and the
Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange/Central and Eastern Europe,
which involves exchanges with Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovian,
Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia,
Poland, the Republic of Slovakia, Romania and Slovenia.
QUALIFICATIONS: Accredited, degree-granting U.S.
universities and colleges, including two-year junior
colleges, consortia, university systems and nonprofits
engaged in international education exchange programs.
MONETARY SUPPORT: Project awards will vary. The maximum
grant is $60,000 for organizations with up to four years'
experience.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Federal Register, 06/16/94 pg. 30961
DEADLINES: 09/28/94
CONTACT:
Academic Exchanges Division
European Branch
301 Fourth Street, SW
Room 208
Washington, DC 20547
ATTN: Ted Kniker
PHONE: 202 205 0525
RFP NUMBER: E/AEE-95-01
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