Digest for 95-05-17
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-17 May 95 The US Industry Coalition (US and NIS)
#02-17 May 95 NIS Embassy Addresses in Washington and New York
#03-17 May 95 New USAID WWW Server
#04-17 May 95 The World Resource Foundation
#05-17 May 95 New BISNIS Documents
#06-17 May 95 New "Homegrown Home Pages"
#07-17 May 95 RUSAG-L Current Events #56
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-17 May 95 Sender: aa886@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Strozewski)
Subject: Looking for a student
#02-17 May 95 Sender: rd@GLAS.APC.ORG
Subject: Re: for posting on RUSAG; dictionary??
(x-post from RUSAG-L)
#03-17 May 95 Sender: Center for Civil Society International
(ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Forwarded mail....
#04-17 May 95 Sender: Dave Stickney ( dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua )
Subject: Buddist Kung-fu School
#05-17 May 95 Sender: Dave Stickney ( dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua )
Subject: Childrens Camp...
#06-17 May 95 Sender: Kit Strange ( KStrange@worldres.demon.co.uk )
Subject: waste management and the environment
#07-17 May 95 Sender: merrill@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Deane Merrill)
Subject: Re: U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space (fwd)
#08-17 May 95 Sender: merrill@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Deane Merrill)
Subject: Re: INFO-RUSS: 15 EMBASSIES
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* The United States Industry Coalition (USIC) is a coalition of U.S.
industries working closely with ten DOE National Laboratories for the
purpose of facilitating commercial interactions between U.S. businesses
and entities of the New Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet
Union (FSU). Partnerships are formed involving U.S. industry, the DOE
laboratories, and the NIS to pursue industry-defined projects that are
commercially promising. Get more information about the USIC from our
Economics page and about their Membership Meeting in July from our
Meetings and Conferences section on the Funding and Exchange
Opportunites Page.
* From our Tourism and Travel Information Page and Who's Who, get the
addresses, phone and fax numbers (email addresses too if applicable)
of the New Independent States of the FSU embassies in Washington, DC.
(See message 008.)
* US AID has announced their own WWW site -- it can be accessed from our
Funding and Exchange Opportunites page.
* The World Resource Foundation, a UK NGO offers a network of contacts
and free information on the management of solid waste, and are
particularly keen to improve links with colleagues in Central and
Eastern Europe, especially in Russia. Get more information about this
NGO from our Science page. (See message 006)
* The three new BISNIS documents accessible from our Economics page are:
- U.S. West Coast-Russian Far East - Pacific Partnership
Conference (also accessible from our Meetings & Conference Page)
- Investment Opportunity and Overview
- Fully-Funded Newly Independent State (NIS) Defense Industry Interns
for U.S. Companies Engaged in Commercialization or
Diversification
* We have added several new "Homegrown Home Pages" to our Life section.
Take a look at Pasha's own pictures of Moscow. They are wonderful!
* The May 15th edition of RUSAG-L Current Events (#56) is available from
Science Page.
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Sender: aa886@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Strozewski)
Subject: Looking for a student
Sir.
I am trying to locate a student (American) studying in Russia through
the Internet. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
--
Richard Strozewski
I-PLUS, Inc.
Suite 1020, 75 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio (216)771-7776
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The student I am looking for is an American foreign exchange student,
attending a University somewhere near Moscow. Exactly which one I am not
sure. Her name is Kimberly Strozewski and I believe she is on a 6 month
study program of some type.
Any assistance in locating her and providing an Internet address (directly
or through someone else) would be greatly appreciated.
Also I am currently a subscriber to friends and I am interested in
establishing business conntacts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union, primarily business contacts in the field of Information Systems
and telecommunications.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide in either one of
these endevours.
Sincerely
Rich Strozewski
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Richard Strozewski
I-PLUS, Inc.
Suite 1020, 75 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio (216)771-7776
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Sender: rd@GLAS.APC.ORG
Subject: Re: for posting on RUSAG; dictionary?? (x-post from RUSAG-L)
I have seen such a dictionary in a technical bookstore in Moscow.
Do you have a way to get it from here to where you are?
Richard DuVal
Moscow, Russia
rd@glas.apc.org
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Sender: Center for Civil Society International ( ccsi@u.washington.edu )
Subject: Forwarded mail....
Please respond directly to Tamara A. Petroshenkova.
-------------Forwarded Message------------
Sender: SAC.STPETE@sovcust.sprint.com
Subject:
I am a professor of Russian language in St. Petersburg and am interested in
writing a language text book covering: political/economic Russian and how to
read Russian newspapers. I am looking for a native English speaking co-author
in the United States, UK, Canada, or Russia. For more information, please
contact me via e-mail (scott@sovam.com) or fax (St. Petersburg, Russia 812-311-
0934).
Thanks,
Tamara A. Petroshenkova
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Sender: Dave Stickney ( dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua )
Subject: Buddist Kung-fu School
Dear Friends,
Is this something you can help with? I am looking for Buddist
missionarys for perhaps the only Buddist Church in Ukraine. They are
constructing a very large temple in Cherkassy Ukraine and wish to host
visitors. This Church has lost contact with its original Teacher, who
started with 3 people 10 years ago during the Soviet Union Days.
They would also like to expand thier school of Kung Fu to N. America,
by having Americans and Canadians come to train until they have
reached a level of proficiency, or by sending teachers to sponsoring
schools.
This is by far the largest of such organizations in the FSU. Created
when both Buddism and Kung Fu where illegal, the underground network
of schools and temples totaled around 20,000 members in most major
cities of the FSU. This is about 5,000 more people than the government
of Ukraine had on it's independance day.
We have a magazine article about them, and will forward it to
interested parties.
To correspond with them:
White Lotus,
School of Sha Fut Fan
257000 Ukraine
Descent Franko #4
Cherkassy Ukraine
Tel: +38 0472 47-92-07
Vladimir Ivanovich Skubaev
Teacher
Please crosspost and forward as relevant, Please respond to:
dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua
Thank you,
David Stickney
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257000 PO BOX #40 Cherkassy Ukraine Dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua
PH (7) (0472) 47-56-69, Fax 47-74-36, Telex 147013 OBZOR UX, CAAA@SOVAM.COM
Fidonet: 2:4635/4.21 Unitycom: 16:257/4.21 CAAA is a Project of
IAEWP (NGO) United Nations (ECOSOC) UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO
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Sender: Dave Stickney ( dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua )
Subject: Childrens Camp...
Copy of fax from:
CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE MISSION " EMMANUIL "
P.O. Box 44, 225860 Kobrin, Belarus
Tel.(01642) 2-72-09 Fax.(01642) 2-29-75
19.04.95
Mr. David Stickney.
CCM "Emmanuil" was organized in 1991 in Belarus with the aim of spiritual
improvement of people, providing assistance in the construction of churches,
providing charitable assistance to people who are in need, providing
assistance for the victims of Chernobyl. Status of official charitable
organization was granted to the Mission "Emmanuil" by the resolution of
Belarus Government.
For realization of charitable purposes Mission "Emmanuil" bought an area of
46 hectars with the buildings of the former military base.
Now Mission "Emmanuil" makes the reconstruction and major repairs of the
buildings on this territory for creation of the Childrens Center for Health
Care Taking into consideration hard economical situation of our people, hard
consequences of Chernobyl disaster, Mission "Emmanuil" is going to accept
600 children for health care free of charge in summer 1995.
For successful realization of this program we are asking you to provide assis-
tance in acquisition of dentist equipment, diagnostic equipment (ECHO systems
for apparatus for laboratory research of the type "Netosotr-10" and "Clinitex-
100").
We also need ecological clean food products, vitamines and medicines.
Mission has its own economical and commercial structures for forming its own
finances. At the present stage of its development mission needs additional
finances for successful and timely termination of the Children Center.
Our Mission and people from Belarus will be grateful to those, who will
provide assistance in the construction of the Children Center for Health Care.
Our fax is 01642-2-72-09.
Sincerely yours,
Stepan Komarchuk.
More from Dave)
E mail can be sent to serge@wvb.gomel.by he'll translate it and mail it.
I have sourced Dental Equipment. I would need to find someone willing to make
a $7000 Tax deducable donation. ( This pays the wharehouse fees )
This is 15 complete operatories.
The Contact information is:
American Dentists for Foreign Service, Inc.
ADFS
619 Church Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11218
Tel 718-436-8686
Dr. Herman Ivanhoe
Director
I can Ship this or Any Other FULL containers ( Of interest to organizations
that may be interested in sending aid to this or any other of our projects)
The Contact information is:
U.S. State Department (Washington Office)
(202) 674-2626
Mr. Tom Michaels
He need to be told the address an contact person with the container, and the
sponsor org in Ukraine or Belarus.
Hands to Clinical Labs of Third World Countries, INC. does not have enough
Diagnostic equipment to ship a 20' container, although they can donate it, and
provide tech assistance and volunteers. Here funding for transport is needed,
or the materials need to be collected with other materials and placed in a
container. As I am in Ukraine and Belarus, this is a little Difficult to
Arrange..
The Contact information is:
Hands to Clinical Labs of Third World Countries, INC.
176 Broadway
Paterson, NJ 7505
Tel (201) 881-3972 Fax 279-7511
Dr. Mahesh Goel
Director of Laboratories
As for Medicines, Any and all help would be helpful. List of conditions
forwarded on request.
Also, if anyone has the ability to translate Medicine name into English
please have them contact us.
Please crosspost as relevant.
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257000 PO BOX #40 Cherkassy Ukraine Dave@caaa.freenet.kiev.ua
PH (7) (0472) 47-56-69, Fax 47-74-36, Telex 147013 OBZOR UX, CAAA@SOVAM.COM
Fidonet: 2:4635/4.21 Unitycom: 16:257/4.21 CAAA is a Project of
IAEWP (NGO) United Nations (ECOSOC) UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO
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Sender: Kit Strange ( KStrange@worldres.demon.co.uk )
Subject: waste management and the environment
Dear Friends,
I enclose a brief summary of the activities of my organisation, the World
Resource Foundation, a UK NGO.
We offer a network of contacts and free information on the management of
solid waste, and are particularly keen to improve links with colleagues in
Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Russia.
We offer free subscription to an excellent quarterly journal 'Warmer
Bulletin', which is available in English, German or Spanish languages.
We need good inormation and contacts to enhance our worldwide service.
Anyone from environmental groups, government, industry or the academic
world with any interest in waste issues is welcome to contact us, join our
network and use our comprehensive services.
Thank you,
Kit Strange
Director
World Resource Foundation
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The World Resource Foundation:
The World Resource Foundation, a UK non-profit organisation, was
established in 1984 to provide reliable information on the management of
municipal solid waste. The WRF has offices in England, Germany and Spain.
With a network of expert contacts around the world, the WRF deliver
accurate, reliable and free information on all aspects of resource recovery
and waste management.
WRF believes that society squanders resources in the waste it discards.
Additional resources are spent unnecessarily in pursuing misguided waste
management options with no net environmental benefit.
WRF is convinced that society must strive for sustainable resource
management, eliminating superfluous waste creation, recovering resources
from waste with least overall damage to the environment.
WRF is working to ensure relevant decisions are taken, informed by the best
available access to information, with full regard to environmental
interests
The objectives of the World Resource Foundation are to:
- define waste
- promote the effective use of waste
- enhance understanding of waste as a resource
- encourage consideration of the environmental impact of waste management
and the opportunities for resource recovery
- assist individuals, local authorities, national governments and
international organisations make justifiable decisions on resource recovery
WRF is working towards attaining its objectives through:
- stimulating a constructive debate on resource recovery and its
environmental impact
- becoming better recognised internationally as an informed authority and
source of reliable information
- targetting key opinion-formers and decision-makers and the public at
large, actively influencing their views
Communication is achieved predominantly in two ways - through the services
of a comprehensive library facility and through the publication of a
quarterly magazine 'Warmer Bulletin'.
The World Resource Foundation library holds the following resources:
- more than 10,000 separate information items (books, reports etc)
- computer database for rapid data retrieval
- electronic mail-based information service
- access to on-line systems
- parliamentary and press monitoring reports
- a wide range of international journals and magazines
- dedicated staff
- public information request service
The World Resource Foundation's free quarterly publication, which is now
read by more than 120,000 people in over 100 countries, offers the
following benefits:
- news, features and technical articles on resource recovery and waste
management
- comprehensive reports of legislative, technical and policy developments
around the world
- published in English, German and Spanish languages
- every issue contains an 'Information Sheet' - a detailed single issue
briefing report
- review of new books, conference proceedings
- forthcoming diary events
Please contact me for further information, or for a free subscription to
'Warmer Bulletin' , our quarterly 24 page journal on waste management
issues.
Kit Strange, Director
World Resource Foundation
Bridge House
High Street
Tonbridge
Kent TN9 1DP
Great Britain
Tel +44 1732 368 333
Fax +44 1732 368 337
email KStrange@worldres.demon.co.uk
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Sender: merrill@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Deane Merrill)
Subject: Re: U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space (fwd)
)From: Linda Long (llong@pubs.ota.gov)
)Subject: U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space
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U.S.-RUSSIAN COOPERATION IN SPACE
*
The OTA report "U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space" report is
now available. Ordering information and details about
electronic access are at the end of this file.
Since 1991 expanding cooperation with Russia or other
nations of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in space activities
has begun to return scientific, technological, political,
and economic benefits to the United States, according to an
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) report released today.
Yet, the political and economic risks of cooperating with
the Russians are higher than with the United States'
traditional space partners.
The future of the cooperative projects, says OTA, will
depend on a variety of factors as diverse as progress in
stabilizing Russia's political and economic institutions,
successful management of the complex and large-scale
projects themselves, and continued Russian adherence to
missile technology proliferation controls.
Today the United States government is actively pursuing
cooperation with Russia on a wide range of space activities,
including the International Space Station. In addition,
U.S. aerospace firms have entered into joint ventures,
licensing agreements, and cooperative technical agreements
with a variety of Russian counterparts.
Russia's technical contributions to the space station
substantially increase planned space station capabilities.
Just as important to the United States are the foreign
policy gains from this and other human spaceflight projects,
such as the Shuttle-Mir dockings. In addition, U.S.
officials expect cooperative activities to help promote
economic and political stability in Russia, says OTA.
NASA's purchase of nearly $650 million in goods and services
from Russia during fiscal years 1994-97, by far the largest
transfer of U.S. public funds to Russian government and
industry, is an important signal of U.S. support for
Russia's transition to a market economy. Nevertheless, OTA
points out, such purchases entail some political risk in the
United States, as well as the risk to the space station if
the Russian government and enterprises are not able to
deliver the goods and services as contracted for with NASA.
These purchases should help preserve employment for at least
some Russian space engineers and technicians, thereby
inhibiting proliferation through "brain drain" and helping
to sustain Russian adherence to the Missile Technology
Control Regime, says OTA. Moreover, NASA's purchases
improve the chances that Russia will be able to meet its
obligations to the space station project, thereby enhancing
prospects for success.
Aside from the space station, cooperative activities include
flights of instruments on each other's spacecraft and
potential joint missions using Russian launch capabilities
with U.S.-built spacecraft. Cooperation on projects
involving human spaceflight involves both potentially
greater programmatic benefits and higher risks than in space
science and applications, notes OTA. The United States
stands to gain new experience in long-duration human
spaceflight and a better understanding of Russia's
technology and methods.
Except for the space station, Russian contributions are not
in the "critical path" to completion of key projects; and
program managers have made contingency plans to minimize
long-term risks, says OTA. However, unprecedented risks
result from Russia's critical role in completion of the
space station, says OTA. Knowledgable observers express
concern about Russian ability to deliver their elements on
time and within budget. Failure to do so could cause
serious difficulties, both programmatically and in NASA's
relations with its other partners and with Congress. The
U.S. ability to make up for Russian delays or failure to
deliver is severely limited by available U.S. resources,
says OTA. On another level, observers worry that political
and/or military events within Russia or between Russia and
other countries could cause either party to seek to amend
the space station program or withdraw from it.
According to OTA, participants in current cooperative
ventures suggest some precautions that could be taken, both
in the space station and other projects. These include
seeking a better understanding of the larger political and
economic forces that affect Russian ability to deliver on
commitments, maximizing open and frank communication between
U.S. and Russian programs, and managing cultural differences
effectively.
Today most large U.S. aerospace companies are pursuing some
form of joint venture or partnership with Russian concerns,
especially in launch services and propulsion technologies.
Several of these emerging commercial partnerships show
promise, and some could result in large revenues; but OTA
finds that none of them yet appear to be profitable. It is
too early to tell how successful they will be, says OTA,
because of unstable Russian political, economic, and legal
conditions,and potential linkage to U.S-Russian relations.
According to OTA, experts disagree over the nature and
extent of the effect that expanded cooperation with Russia
will have on the U.S. aerospace industry, and particularly
on the retention of U.S. jobs. Russian launch vehicles and
related systems have the most obvious potential for U.S.
commercial use. But using them could adversely affect the
U.S. launch industry. This industry is the subject of
upcoming OTA reports.
OTA is a nonpartisan analytical agency that serves the U.S.
Congress. Its purpose is to aid Congress with the complex
and often highly technical issues that increasingly affect
our society.
For copies of the 144-page report "U.S.-Russian Cooperation
in Space" for congressional use, please call (202) 224-9241.
To order copies for noncongressional use, indicate stock
number 052-003-01410-6 and send your check for $10.00 a copy
or provide your VISA or MasterCard number and expiration
date to Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954,
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7974, [FAX (202) 512-2250] or call
(202) 512-0132 (GPO's main bookstore). For free 4-page
summaries, please call (202) 224-8996.
Readers can access this report electronically through OTA
Online via the following standard Internet tools:
WWW: http://www.ota.gov
FTP: otabbs.ota.gov; login as anonymous, password is your e-
mail address; publications are in the /pub/us-rus directory
Telnet: otabbs.ota.gov; login as public, password is public
Additional features of OTA Online are available through
client software with a graphical user interface for
Microsoft Windows. This software is available free through
the WWW home page or by contacting the OTA
Telecommunications and Information Systems Office, (202)
228-6000, or email sysop@ota.gov Direct questions or
comments on Internet services by email to netsupport@ota.gov
The electronic file names and sizes are:
01README.TXT (2K)
02ORDER.INFO.TXT (4K)
FOREWORD.TXT (3K)
WKSHP.TXT (2K)
STAFF.TXT (1K)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.TXT (2K)
TOC.TXT (2K)
EXEC.SUMMARY.TXT (10K)
CH1.TXT (64K)
CH2.TXT (38K)
CH3.TXT (56K)
CH4.TXT (22K)
CH5.TXT (43K)
CH6.TXT (22K)
APPA.TXT (55K)
APPD.TXT (14K)
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Sender: merrill@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Deane Merrill)
Subject: Re: INFO-RUSS: 15 EMBASSIES
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A DIRECTORY OF 15 EMBASSIES
Armenia
1660 L Street, NW
Suite 210
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-628-5766
Fax: 202-628-5769
E-mail: N/A
Azerbaijan
927 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-842-0001
Fax: 202-842-0004
E-mail: azerbaijan@mcimail.com
Belarus
1619 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-986-1604
Fax: 202-986-1805
E-mail: N/A
Estonia
1030 15th Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-789-0320
Fax: 202-789-0471
E-mail: ESTONIA/ESTEMBWA/KAARI%Embassy_Of_Estonia
@mcimail.com
Georgia
1511 K Street, NW
Suite 424
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-393-5959
Fax: 202-393-6060
E-mail: N/A
Kazakhstan
3421 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-333-4504
Fax: 202-333-4509
E-mail: N/A
Kyrgyzstan
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Suite 706
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-347-3732
Fax: 202-347-3718
E-mail: 73121.3244@compuserve.com
Latvia
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Washington, DC 20011
Tel: 202-726-8213
Fax: 202-726-6785
E-mail: N/A
Lithuania
2622 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel: 202-234-5860
Fax: 202-328-0466
E-mail: 73244.717@compuserve.com
Moldova
1511 K Street, NW
Suite 329
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-783-3012
Fax: 202-783-3342
E-mail: doinita@aol.com
Russian Federation
2650 Wisconsin Avenue
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-298-5700
Fax: 202-298-5735
E-mail: N/A
Tajikistan
136 East 67th Street
New York, New York 10021
Tel: 212-472-7645
Fax: same
E-mail: N/A
Turkmenistan
1511 K Street, NW
Suite 412
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-737-4800
Fax: 202-737-1152
E-mail: N/A
Ukraine
3350 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Tel: 202-333-0606
Fax: 202-333-0817
E-mail: vmar@aol.com
Uzbekistan
1511 K Street, NW
Suite 619
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-638-4267
Fax: 202-638-4268
E-mail: N/A
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