Digest for 94-12-25
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
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RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-25 December 94 Sender: Elli.Heikkila@oulu.fi
Subject: Season's Greetings
#02-25 December 94 Sender: Joseph Erhard-Hudson
(i9253209@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
Subject: Holiday Issue
#03-25 December 94 Sender: rwilliamson@UH.EDU (Robert Williamson)
Subject: A Texas Christmas on the Farm
#04-25 December 94 Sender: Dr Andrey Tsouladze
(tsoul@aluf.technion.ac.il)
Subject: Holidays around
#05-25 December 94 Sender: "Russ Knight"
(RKNIGHT@novell.business.uwo.ca)
Subject: Christmas Story
#06-25 December 94 Sender: CASKEY@midyork.lib.ny.us
Subject: Christmas and new Year Greetings
#07-25 December 94 Sender: Peter Palms (palmbank@pnw.net)
Subject: Re: Daily Digest for 94-20-12
#08-25 December 94 Sender: Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
Subject: Address needed
#09-25 December 94 Sender: Shannon Palmer (spalmer@u.washington.edu)
Subject: e-mail addressess in Moscow
#10-25 December 94 Sender: Leonid Sagalovsky (leonid@Mcs.Net)
Subject: Russian-language books
#11-25 December 94 Sender: Kirsten Foot (kfoot@weber.ucsd.edu)
Subject: posting for F&P
#12-25 December 94 Sender: djewett@dartmouth.edu
Subject: trying to learn the language
#13-25 December 94 Sender: SSA95ISC14@mecn.mass.edu
Subject: for robert from lena
#14-25 December 94 Sender: RCCROCKETT@life.uams.edu
Subject: seeking penpals
#15-25 December 94 Sender: Athol Yates (ayates@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au)
Subject: Railway Soliders' Address
#16-25 December 94 Sender: peter sekirin (psekirin@epas.utoronto.ca)
Subject: letter
#17-25 December 94 Sender: IN%"fred@eidlin.msk.su" "fred"
Subject: Moscow courses in search of leaders
#18-25 December 94 Sender: Petrus Palms (palbank@eskimo.com)
Subject: Request for assistence with development of
syop in AZERBAIJAN
#19-25 December 94 Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Country Privatization Reports
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Sender: Elli.Heikkila@oulu.fi \d \d (Elli Heikkil\d)
Subject: Season's Greetings
Hello from Finland!
Christmas and New Year Celebrations are very close, actually there are
only couple of days to Christmas Eve and then Santa Claus will be on his
way to visit all homes. He has not so long way in Finland, because Santa
Claus lives in Korvatunturi, northern part of Finland, near Arctic
Circle! We have here in Central Finland in Kajaani, where I live, also
White Christmas, but in the southern part of our country there is no
snow. It has been snowing a lot this week and parks and all places are
looking very beautiful and clean. And the candles in the windows create
right mood for the celebration!
I wish all of you MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 1995!
Elli
Elli.Heikkila@oulu.fi
University of Oulu
Research Institute of Northern Finland
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Sender: Joseph Erhard-Hudson (i9253209@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
Subject: Holiday Issue
My Holidays
Joseph Erhard-Hudson
In the U.S. Christmas is often a holiday which centers around children
and church. My wife and I have no children, and we do not consider
ourselves Christians, but we celebrate the season at home and at church
nonetheless.
The winter holiday season begins for my us at the end of November, on
the weekend after Thanksgiving. On that Saturday or Sunday, we go out
and get a Christmas Tree. We bring the tree home, then spend hours
searching for the place where we stored all of the ornaments and the
tree stand after last Christmas. The tree goes in the stand, and we re-
arrange all the furniture to make the tree the focus of the whole house.
The whole day is spent putting lights on the tree, hanging glass
ornaments, and putting up wreaths and decorations all over the house.
The whole month of December is filled with excitement and chaos. We are
both students, so we must keep studying and preparing for final exams.
But everyone we know is having a party, and our church is having special
services and performances, and we are buying presents and preparing for
holiday visits. We only buy presents for our closest family and one or
two friends, but it still takes a lot of time and energy, and more money
than we ever expect. So, we shop, and visit, and study, and bake cookies
to take to parties, and receive visitors, and get little sleep.
Most Americans feel it is very important to be with family at Christmas
time. It certainly is for us. We live in Washington State, but my
parents live in Virginia, on the opposite coast. It has been 4 years
since my family was together at Christmas, and my mother was feeling
very lonely. So, my parents have bought plane tickets for us to come
visit (we could not afford the tickets ourselves). My brother and his
wife and son live in Chicago, and they will be coming too. It will be
the first time I meet my nephew, who is now 1 1/2 years old! Of course,
my wife has a family of her own too, so after we come back home we will
drive to Montana to visit her mother and other relatives.
We go to church at a small Methodist church in a nearby town. They had a
special Christmas show during services the Sunday before Christmas, and
will have another quiet service at night on Christmas Eve. These
services are where another important part of Christmas comes in: music!
One of the delightful parts of Christmas in America is that we have
brought wonderful traditions from all parts of the world, and the songs
and carols of Christmas time are beautiful. During our Christmas show at
church, we heard songs from Germany (Silent Night, or Stille Nacht),
England (The First Noel), Provence (Gloria), and of course America.
Alas, no Russian tunes! :(.
The children at the church put on a little play. They all dressed up as
characters from the Christmas story, and made a little tableau in front
of the altar. So we had little shepherds, and magi, and angels, and
Joseph, and Mary holding a little doll. The children brought their
stuffed toy animals to make the barn scene complete. By the end of the
play, Mary had put down baby Jesus and was holding a stuffed pig
instead.
Finally, my wife and I do not spend all of our time and energy on
selfish pleasures. We feel that Christmas is a time to spread love and
peace to the world. So this is the time of year when we find people or
charities who need support, and we commit ourselves to giving them money
and work throughout the coming year.
Since my wife and I are not Christian (we are philosophically close to
being pagans), you might wonder why we attend a Christian church and
spend so much energy on a religious holiday. I won't bore you with my
personal theology, but I will say that there are many pre-Christian
traditions which have been absorbed into Christmas, from caroling to
Christmas trees, from the German Yul celebrations to the Roman
Saturnalia.
Also, it is so gloomy and dark in December. What better way to cheer
yourself up than to have lots of parties and put up lots of decorations
and eat lots of food and get presents and sing pretty songs and go home
to visit Mom?
So, that is my Christmas. To all, a joyous Christmas and a New Year
filled with love, and hope, and peace.
Joseph
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Sender: rwilliamson@UH.EDU (Robert Williamson)
Subject: A Texas Christmas on the Farm
Merry Christmas everybody! I dont actually live on a farm, I live in
Houston. I hope everybody has a safe holiday and if you have snow then I
am VERY jealous. It's 3 days before Christmas and it's 75 degrees here.
If anybody would like a Texan Cowboy for a pen pal then E-mail me back.
I want to meet more people from all over. Well, I have to get home and
start COOKIN'. Merry Christmas everyone and remember that anyone who
says it's better to give than to recieve never got anything they liked!
Rob Williamson (a.k.a. Santa's little helper)
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Sender: Dr Andrey Tsouladze (tsoul@aluf.technion.ac.il)
Subject: Holidays around
Dear Friends,
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to everyone.
Andrey
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Sender: "Russ Knight" (RKNIGHT@novell.business.uwo.ca)
Subject: Christmas Story
Spassiba (spelling again) for your invitation to tell my Christmas
story, but I'd rather tell one that Cole will be too chicken to send
out! I'm a Newfie (that's a large rock off the east coast of Canada, the
fifty-first state for you Amurricans), so I can tell it as a Newfie
Christmas story. The rest of you will have to tell it as a Ukranian
story (if you live in Winnipeg in our glorious west) or Italian (if
you're from Boston or New York)! Anywho, here goes!
A Newfie was feeling pretty low just before Christmas as his family
wasn't able to make it back to God's Country for Christmas. So he went
into a local bar (tavern, pub, whatever!) to drown his sorrows and met a
Newfie friend who told him he had just the thing to cheer him up! He
reached into a sack he had and pulled out a minature piano and next a
little man, about a foot (one third of a metre!) high, who promptly sat
at the piano and began to play all the Christmas carols and everyone
sang.
"But where did you get him?" asked the original Newfie.
"I found Alladin's Lamp! And you just rub it and out comes a Genie who
asks what wish you would like granted!" said his friend.
"Can I try it?"
"Sure."
So the original Newfie rubs the lamp, out pops the Genie, and he wishes
for "a million Bucks!"
Suddenly the tavern is filled with a million Ducks, flying, squawking,
crapping.....in general creating a hell of a mess.
"But I wished for a million Bucks, not a million Ducks!" sreamed the
original Newfie.
"So?" said his friend "You don't think I wished for a twelve inch
PIANIST, do you?"
Have a Merry and a Happy! Russ
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Sender: CASKEY@midyork.lib.ny.us
Subject: Christmas and new Year Greetings
I have a friend in St. Petersburg, Misha Klopkov and his family, that I
wish to send greetings to. We met in 1971 when I was on a study tour of
Russia. We have corresponded intermittently but I have not heard from
him in a long time. We sent a package about 4 years ago that came back.
I would love to hear from him again wherever he is. My family and I are
looking forward to a message. My e-mail address is:
Caskey@midyork.lib.ny.us
Thank you and Happy Holidays! Mary Lou Caskey, Poland, New York
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Sender: Peter Palms (palmbank@pnw.net)
Subject: Re: Daily Digest for 94-20-12
Christmas
I am spending my time thankful of the many blessings the Creator has
bestowed upon me. Eternity is now. The more we emulate the Creator the
more that forces opposed to the Creator's will avoid us, and the more we
come to posses, with the Creator, the Creator's power.
This is a time of great miracles, which is what makes it so exciting for
all of us.
It would seem that many in the world are still procrastinating from
recognizing that His WILL is our own. "Free Will" really means no more
than the right to procrastinate. I does not mean we have the power to
change the Will of the Creator. "Knowing" these things brings peace of
mind. All security is internal. You can't get enough externally to ever
make you feel safe. Safety comes from knowing that you already have
everything always according to your needs. By giving we get, and when
the material world becomes a secondary concern, then it is made
available to us. Before that recognition dawns it frequently is
withheld, to avoid misleading us into the wrong priorities.
If Russian and Ukraina and the CIS didn't exist we would be missing a
great gift. The situation afford us an opportunity to rediscover what we
have always known. It is by teaching it to others that we remember it
ourselves. It is always difficult to identify the giver and the receiver
for they are both the same and the roles are constantly changing. 50
years from now, if the great potential productivity of the CIS
populations is unleashed and applied to the greatest natural resources
on the globe, you may well see roles reversed and the U.S. borrowing
money from the republics of the FSU.
That explains why we are so drawn to the difficulties and hardships we
all must willingly assume to participate in this great humanitarian
experiment and lesson.
This is a period of great hopefulness. To those who are suffering, or in
despair, or who fear and have doubts, be of good cheer. For there is
born to us a Savior and we are all part of him and together we have the
power to bring HIS WILL to this planet and the entire Universe.
NOTHING REAL CAN BE THREATENED
NOTHING UNREAL EXISTS
HEREIN LIES THE PEACE OF GOD
I share this with you
The first obstacle that "Peace" must flow across is your desire to get
rid of it. For it cannot extend unless you keep it. You are the center
from which it radiates outward, to call the others in. You are its home,
its tranquil dwelling place from which it gently reaches out, but never
leaving you. If you would make it home-less, how can it abide within you
who are the Creation of God. If it would spread across the whole
creation, it must begin with you, and from you reach to everyone who
calls, and bring him rest by joining you. Why would you want peace
homeless? What do you think it must dispossess to dwell with you? What
seems to be the cost you are so unwilling to pay? The little barrier of
sand still stands between you and your brother. Would you reinforce it
now? You are not asked to let go for yourself alone. Christ asks it of
you for Himself. He would bring peace to everyone and how can He do this
except through you? Would you let a little bank of sand, a wall of dust,
a tiny seeming barrier, stand between your brothers and forgiveness. And
yet this little remnant of attack you cherish still against your brother
is the first obstacle the peace in you encounters in its going forth.
This little wall of hatred would still oppose the Will of God and keep
it limited.
God's purpose rests in peace within you. Yet you are still unwilling to
let it join you wholly. You still oppose the Will of God, just by a
little. And that little is a limit you would place upon the whole. God's
will is one not many. It has no opposition, for there is none beside it.
What you would still contain behind your little barrier and keep
separate from your brothers seems mightier than the universe, for it
would hold back the universe and its Creator. This little wall would
hide the purpose of God and keep it from Him.
Would you thrust peace away from the Giver of Peace. For such you have
become. Peace could no more depart from you than from God. Fear not this
little obstacle. It cannot contain the Will of God. Peace will flow
across it and join you without hinderance. Peace cannot be withheld from
you. It is your purpose. You cannot choose apart from this. You have no
purpose apart from your brother, nor apart from God.. The little wall
will fall away so quietly beneath the wings of peace. For peace will
send its messengers from you to all the world, and barriers will fall
away before your coming as easily as those that you interpose will be
surmounted.
To overcome the world is no more difficult than to surmount your little
wall. For in the miracle of your love for your brother is every miracle
contained. There is no order of difficulty in miracles, for they are all
the same. Each is a gentle winning over from the appeal of guilt to the
appeal of love. How can this fail to be accomplished, wherever it is
undertaken?
There is a hush in Heaven, a happy expectancy, a little pause of
gladness in acknowledgement of the journey's end. For heaven knows you
well, as you know heaven. No illusion stands between you and your
brother now. Look not upon the little wall of shadows. The sun has risen
over it. How can a shadow keep you from the sun? No more can you be kept
by shadows from the light in which illusion ends. Every miracle is but
the end of an illusion. Such was the journey; such its ending. An din
the goal of truth which you accepted must all illusions end.
The feather of a wish, this tiny illusion, this microscopic belief that
the Will of God can be defeated, is all that remains of what once seemed
to be the world. It is no longer an unrelenting barrier to peace. Its
pointless wandering makes its results appear to be more erratic and
unpredictable than before. Yet what could be more unstable than a
tightly organized delusional system? Its seeming stability is its
pervasive weakness, which extends to everything. How mighty can a little
feather be before the the great wings of truth. Can it oppose an eagles
flight, or hinder the advance of summer? Can it interfere with the
effects of summer's sun upon a garden covered with snow? Would you not
rather greet the summer sun than fix your gaze upon a disappearing
snowflake, and shiver in rememberance of the winter's cold.
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Sender: Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
Subject: Address needed
Hi all,
Could anyone give me a clue of how to reach prof. Danielova at
Biological Institute of University of Erevan? Any help will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Valerie
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Communications Technology Center Phone: (206)881-4478
3860 159th Avenue N.E., Suite 150 FAX: (206)881-4470
Redmond, WA 98052-6304 SCAN: (206)294-4478
Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
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Sender: Shannon Palmer (spalmer@u.washington.edu)
Subject: e-mail addressess in Moscow
In February I will leave for Moscow to study at Moscow Pedagogical
Institute for four months. While there I would like to have access to
the Internet but I do not know if this will be possible from this
institute, or perhaps if it would be possible to have access at Moscow
State University. If anyone knows e-mail addresses for either school and
if and how I could have access it would be greatly appreciated.
Also, I am looking for friend from Seattle, Marcus Varner, who (at last
report) works for Sun Microsystems and was working in Russia. My guess
is in either St. Petersburg or Moscow. Marcus, if your out there get in
touch with me; Shannon.
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Sender: Leonid Sagalovsky (leonid@Mcs.Net)
Subject: Russian-language books
Dear Friends:
If you are looking to buy Russian-language books in U.S., I'd like to
tell you about our company.
Club KNIZHNIK, based in Bensalem, PA, provides high-quality books at low
prices through mail-order. Our current catalog has over 400 titles in 18
different genres. We try to satisfy various tastes and preferences: we
carry children books, classical literature, recent best-sellers, poetry,
esoterics, artbooks, textbooks, etc.
We have just released a major revision of our catalog and made it
available on-line. You can download the catalog file in many different
formats (Windows, DOS, UNIX, transliterated ASCII, PostScript):
anonymous ftp to MCS.COM and go to directory
/mcsnet.users/leonid/KNIZHNIK/catalogs
(directory /mcsnet.users/leonid/KNIZHNIK/drivers has Russian DOS
drivers).
If you would like to receive a copy by email or want to be on our
mailing list, send a message to (leonid@mcs.com). You can also call 1-
800-820-5645 (toll-free in U.S.) to leave a request or order the catalog
to be shipped to you by regular mail.
In the future, we plan to release major editions of the catalog every
six months. Active registered members will receive monthly "New Books"
bulletins by e-mail. Download Word file cat-info.doc (or ready-to-print
PostScript file cat-info.ps) to obtain general information about Club
KNIZHNIK, terms and policies, and an order form.
Give us a try... We make reading in Russian affordable.
Best regards,
Club KNIZHNIK
Yuri Knizhnik (real name), President
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Sender: Kirsten Foot (kfoot@weber.ucsd.edu)
Subject: posting for F&P
Subject: jrabak@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu's travel request I just tried to
respond to jrabak with a recommendation of a travel agent but found that
his user name (as I spelled it) is unknown at mesa5. "Jrabak", if you
see this please write to me directly. I have a great lead for you!
Sincerely,
Kirsten Foot
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)From: djewett@dartmouth.edu
Subject: trying to learn the language
There are two students at my High School learning Russian on an Indep.
Stdy. project. Anyone willing/interested in corresponding with them?
Just "respond" and I'll let them know.
Thanks!
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Sender: SSA95ISC14@mecn.mass.edu
Subject: for robert from lena
robert, i got your massage through "friends",but i can't send you e-mail
either,i got same"unknown user" thank you very much for replying
mary christmas
lena
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Sender: RCCROCKETT@life.uams.edu
Subject: seeking penpals
hi,
my name is robert, i am 33, and i'm seeking penpals. i have begun to
study russian and i would like to correspond with a girl on a personal
level in order to guide me towards entry into russia. thanks!
robert
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Sender: Athol Yates (ayates@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au)
Subject: Railway Soliders' Address
Does anyone know the postal, fax or phoe address of N Koshmana, General
Leitentant of the Military Railway Forces known as the
Zheleznodorozhnaya Voiskha po stroitelstvu i vosstanovleniu? Athol
Yates, Canberra, Australia ayates@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
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Sender: peter sekirin (psekirin@epas.utoronto.ca)
Subject: letter
Dear Colleague,
Call for Papers, you can put it for your e-mail group:
April, 24-27, 1995
Graduate Students Conference, Slavic Dept.,CREES, U of Toronto: "Russian
Literature and Culture Between Two Wars: 1854-1913" Please send one page
abstract before January 30, 1995 on any interdiscilinary topic; the best
papers will be published. Best wishes,
Peter Sekirin, c/o Galya Rylkova
Slavic Department
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S1A1
e-mail: "psekirin@epas.utoronto.ca"--Boundary (ID
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Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
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)From: IN%"fred@eidlin.msk.su" "fred"
Subj: Moscow courses in search of leaders
Are you interested in what is going on in Russia in your own field of
academic specialization?
Would you be interested in leading a group of students to Moscow for a
month to hear a course of lectures given by Russian scholars in English,
in your field of specialization?
Do you wonder how this is possible for someone who has never been to
Russia (or has only been there as a tourist) and speaks no Russian?
If so, please read on. The following system of one-month courses has
been developing since 1992. So far, nine courses have taken place, with
seven universities participating.
The following information represents a general framework only. If you
have your own contacts in Russia, or would like to modify the proposed
framework, please do not hesitate to make a proposal.
If you would like further information, you can contact me at the
following e-mail address: feidlin@css.uoguelph.ca.
ONE-MONTH COURSES IN MOSCOW
A set of courses with coordinated schedules, offered by
several universities. Each is self-contained, however, the coordinated
system offers students a choice of courses and a choice of months.
Courses usually, though not always, have a shared
infrastructure (accommodations, room and board, cultural program, and
English-speaking student guides, provided by a partnership of the
Russian firm "Indikator," in collaboration with Professor Fred Eidlin,
Department of Political Studies, University of Guelph). Courses are
advertised together. There is a centralized
registration system.
A participating department, university, or individual
professor has considerable latitude with regard to its terms of
association with the system of courses. For example, a participating
institution may provide its own infra-structure, or make request
different arrangements for the infrastructure of its course(s). Most of
the courses are joint projects of a Canadian or
American professor and a partner (individual or group) at a Russian
institution.
The idea for the course may originate with either partner, but
the contents and conception of the course are usually worked out
jointly.
Responsibility for arranging credit at a Canadian or American
university rests with the organizer-leader. Each course consists of 24-
30 hours of lectures delivered in
English by Russian scholars.
In addition to these lectures, the Canadian or American leader
conducts an average of 2 hours of seminar sessions per week.
The Canadian or American leader is responsible for grading
students and reporting grades to his or her respective university.
Individuals from the Russian partner institution assist in the
preparation of examinations and in the evaluation process.
Each course contains course-related excursions and other
activities that belong to the academic part of this program. In addition
to the academic aspects of the course, a cultural program and a number
of excursions are offered.
English-speaking Russian students serve as guide-interpreters
and "seeing-eye dogs" providing access to Russian society.
Cost per student will be approximately US$850, not including
meals or transportation to Moscow. A choice of meal plans is available
at a cost of US$2.00/meal and US$5/meal. Students who do not want a meal
plan may buy food inexpensively at markets.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF GROUP LEADERS
1. Arrangement of course credit at leader's home
institution.
2. Assistance with recruitment of students. This includes
distribution and collection of registration forms and
fees of those students you recruit, and transmission
of this to the central program office.
3. Preparation of course in conjunction with the host
Institution.
4. Providing students with course outlines, bibliographies
and reading materials before the beginning of the course.
5. General oversight of the course while it is in progress:
academic program, liaison with hotel management, liaison with Russian
support group, handling of problems that arise.
6. Providing intellectual stimulation to the group to help
it benefit as much as possible from the experience.
7. Group leaders are not expected to act in loco parentis or
to attend all the functions that have been organized for the students.
However, in conjunction with their Russian staff and contacts, they
should strive to group spirit and a lively learning atmosphere.
ONE-MONTH COURSES IN MOSCOW IN SEARCH OF LEADERS
1. Russian Government and Politics
Host institution: Canada Department, Institute for the USA and Canada:
Course Directors: Elena Komkova and Olga Shapyrina 2. From Command
Economy to Market Economy
Host institution: Department of Public Administration and Department of
Economics, Institute for the USA and Canada Course Directors: Ludmilla
Konareva and Ludmilla Smirnova 3. Law in Post-communist Russia
Host institution: Academy of Jurisprudence of the Russian Federation
4. Politics and Government in Post-communist Eastern Europe
Host institution: Institute for International Economic and Political
Research, RAS
5. Ancient and Medieval Russian History
Host institution: Center for Ancient and Medieval History, Institute for
the History of Russia, RAS 6. Russian Society
Host institution: Institute of Sociology, RAS Course Director: Professor
Leonid Ionian 7. The Foreign Policy of Post-communist Russia
Host institution: Europe Department, Institute for the USA and Canada,
RAS
Course Director: Professor Youri Davyov
8. The Commonwealth of Independent states
Host institution: Sektor for the Nearby Abroad, Institute for
International Economics and International Relations 9. The History of
Perestroyka - 1985-1991
Host institution: Institute for the History of Russia (RAS)
Course Director and principal lecturer: Academician Andrey Sakharov,
Director of the Institute 10. Political Culture and Ideology in
Contemporary Russia
Host institution: Gorbachev Foundation
Course Director and principal lecturer: Boris Kapustin 11. National and
Ethnic Problems in the Former USSR
Host institution: Gorbachev Foundation
Course Director: Aleksey Salmin
12. The Social and Spiritual Impact of Economic Transformation
in Russia:
Host institution: Institute for International Economics and
International Relations
Course Director: Mikhail Gelvanovsky
14. Philosophy: Any of: 1. Philosophy of science or 2.
Russian philosophy, or 3. Social and moral philosophy Host institution:
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
15. Europe: Any of: 1. The European Community or 2. Germany
or 3. another topic having to do with Europe. Host Institution:
Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences
Course Director: Vitaly Zhurkin, Director of the Institute
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Sender: Petrus Palms (palbank@eskimo.com)
Subject: Request for assistence with development of syop in AZERBAIJAN
It looks like these people could use some informed friendly advice about
what their options are and comparable costs and an introduction to
foundations supporting telecommunications projects. Anyone interested
please note the following message
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 13:23:39
+0300 (AZT)
)From: root@dem.baku.az
To: palbank@eskimo.com
Subject: aboutsituation in Azerbaijan.
There is a crisis in Azerbaijan now and the economical situation is very
bad. But the political situations is stable. Very many people in
Azerbaijan are waiting for starting of the oil's contracts. It is a only
possibility for Azerbaijan. Now, there are many foreigns companies want
to connect to Internet. But we have only dial-up connection to Internet,
only e-mail service. For full Internet service we need only leased line
to Moscow but the cost of that line is very high (our Ministry of
Communication give us non realistic price). We are discussing with them
more right prices. We also want to create a center of SPRINT Network in
Baku.
With best regards,
Evgeniy Degtyarev
E-mail: postmaster@insun.azerbaijan.su or root@dem.baku.az
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Sender: mac@maine.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Country Privatization Reports
I have just received some very interesting publications on the topic of
privatization, published by the Central & Eastern Euro- pean
Privatization Network [CEEPN]. CEEPN, headquartered in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, conducts an annual privatization meeting with representatives
from all Central and East European coun- tries. Papers at the meeting
are subsequently published in book form [soft-cover]. The papers provide
an unusually good, coun- try-specific assessment of privatization
efforts/activities in each country.
I have received the editions for 1991, 1992, and 1993. As an example of
the coverage, the 1993 edition covers privatization topics and
developments in the following countries:
Albania Macedonia
Belarus Moldova
Bulgaria Poland
Croatia Romania
Czech Republic Russia
Estonia Slovakia
Germany Slovenia
Hungary Ukraine
Latvia Uzbekistan
Lithuania
If you would like to acquire the publications in the Annual Conference
Series, here are the specifics:
Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe 1991 $20 U.S. Privatization
in Central and Eastern Europe 1992 $20 U.S. Privatization in Central and
Eastern Europe 1993 $30 U.S.
Contact coordinates for CEEPN:
Central & Eastern European Privatization Network Dunajska 104
P.O. Box 18
61109 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: [386-61] 1683-396 Fax: [386-61] 346-660
Since prices may change, it may be useful to dispatch a fax to CEEPN to
confirm price and availability.
Let me close with a disclaimer. I am not a member of CEEPN, nor will I
benefit in any way from the sales of CEEPN publications. I am, however,
an enthusiastic fan of the work they have pro- duced, and feel that the
publications will be interesting/helpful to subscribers interested in
privatization and transformation.
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* DR. DENNIS MCCONNELL * TEL: +1.207.581.1988 *
* EASTERN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE NETWORK * FAX: +1.207.581.1956 *
* COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION * TLX: 62955628 *
* UNIVERSITY OF MAINE * *
* ORONO, MAINE 04469-5723 U.S.A. * MAC@MAINE.MAINE.EDU *
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