Digest for 96-03-06
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
01-06 March 96 International Transport Solutions, Inc.
02-06 March 96 "A Belarus Miscellany" WWW site
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-06 March 96 Sender: Anastasiya Koroleva (A.Queen@ix.netcom.com)
Subject: Indroducing myself
02-06 March 96 Sender: Center for Civil Society International
(ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Moscow school seeks pen-pals
03-06 March 96 Sender: T ANGELAKIS (T.Angelakis@bradford.ac.uk)
Subject: Elections
04-06 March 96 Sender: Stephen Feinson (STEPHEN@JDC.ORG.IL)
Subject: Search for article
05-06 March 96 Sender: Cchinlee@aol.com
Subject: Question on Siberian sled deer racing
06-06 March 96 Sender: William Gettys (bill2@valleynet.com)
Subject: Provide information on Russia
07-06 March 96 Sender: Center for Civil Society International
(ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Announcing the KYRGNEWS List
(x-posted from CenAsia)
08-06 March 96 Sender: "S.A. Benedict Hopkins" (100070.775@compuserve.com)
Subject: Updated Programs
09-06 March 96 Sender: jcentner@hamptons.com (Jonathan Centner)
Subject: Localised Macintosh software
10-06 March 96 Sender: Will Gensburg (willg@its-ship.com)
Subject: AIR COURIER/AIRFREIGHT CIS
11-06 March 96 Sender: kasaty@seanet.com (Peter Kasaty)
Subject: FYI: updated "A Belarus Miscellany" web site
12-06 March 96 Sender: "Dr. Pyotr Johannevich van de Waal-Palms"
Subject: The worst news I've heard all year.
13-06 March 96 Sender: "Dennis McConnell - UMaine, U.S.A."
(mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU)
Subject: NRC Call for Collaborative Proposals
14-06 March 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: UKRAINE FAQ + Presents: Ukrainian Weekly Preview March
3rd, 1995 now ONLINE!
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* International Transport Solutions, Inc.
"ITS is an international air courier and international airfreight company
specializing in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. We provide
fast, efficient and extremely economical door to door delivery for all
documents, packages and freight to thousands of communities in Eastern
Europe, The Russian Republic and all other NIS states."
Please visit the "Shipping and Transportation Services" page from
the "Commercial Services" section or directly at URL:
http://www.its-ship.com/eeur.htm
* Please visit Peter Kasaty's excellent "A Belarus Miscellany" web site
"intended to collect as much accurate information as possible about the
Republic of Belarus and the Belarusian people--both inside and outside
of the Republic of Belarus--and make it available to you."
More information is available in message #11 below. You can visit
from the "Russian/NIS Resources" page (from the "Reference Library"
section) or directly at URL:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~kasaty/miscellany.html
Peter also maintains the BELARUS email listserver (information available
at the WWW site).
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
** 01 **********************************************************************
Sender: Anastasiya Koroleva (A.Queen@ix.netcom.com)
Subject: Indroducing myself
My name is Anastasiya. I am 16. I am Russian.
I've been living in the US for 6 months.
I am really homesick. So I want to chat with some Russian kids
who are now in Russia or here. I am from Saint-Petersburg
and now I live in Brookline(Boston area) .
I like a lot of things from all different areas:swimming,
drawing , math , computers , sculpture , dance , biology ,
and so on and so forth .
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Sender: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Moscow school seeks pen-pals
X-POST from CIVILSOC list
CCSI recently received this e-mail:
)From: Alexander A. Letyagin (geograf@glas.apc.org)
Hello !
We are the students of the school #1044 . We live in Moscow (Russia).
We are 15-16 years old.We begin to work in telecommunication and want to
find partners . We go in for sport . We are eager to know something about
your schools .Our school opened on 1st September ,1995 .It setuated in
Marinsky park (it is a new region in our cuty) .At school we take courses
like Russian , Literature , Math (which includes Algebra and Geometry),
English , History , Geography , ets. It well equippted by computers ,
TV , video- and audiorecorders.We enjoy studingin this school .
We are wating for your letters!
February,1996
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Sender: T ANGELAKIS (T.Angelakis@bradford.ac.uk)
Subject: Elections
I have to settle an argument. Can anybody tell me the date of the
Russian presidential elections in June 1996?
Reply to:
t.angelakis@bradford.ac.uk
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Sender: STEPHEN@JDC.ORG.IL
Subject: Search for article
I just saw an article which Marshall Goldman wrote concerning current
Russian politics. It was published somewhere on the internet, or
maybe I received a copy through a list. At any rate, I can't for the
life of me remember where I saw it.
Can somebody help me by forwarding me a copy or pointing me towards
it?
Many thanks.
Stephen Feinson
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Sender: Cchinlee@aol.com
Subject: Question on Siberian sled deer racing
I'm writing a children's book on Asia and would like to get help on Siberian
sled deer racing. I'd like to get about 2-3 paragraphs of description and
some photo/drawings if possible. Could you help or point me to someone?
Thanks,
Cynthia Chin-Lee
"The Networking Queen"
Precisely Write
835 Guinda Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
415-327-2144 (phone)
415-327-1264 (FAX)
New Web site: http://www.expertcenter.com/members/cchinlee
Email: cchinlee@aol.com
Author of "It's Who You Know: Career Strategies for
Making Effective Personal Contacts" (Pfeiffer & Company)
and "Almond Cookies and Dragon Well Tea"
(Polychrome Publishing), illustrated by You-Shan Tang
and "The Web Server Handbook" with Comet and Martin Gruber (McGraw-Hill) in
1996 and "A is for Asia" (Orchard Books), illustrated by Yumi Heo in 1997
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Sender: William Gettys (bill2@valleynet.com)
Subject: Provide information on Russia
I am currently writing a novel about a young Russian woman marrying an
American after moving to the U.S. I would like to find somebody who
whould be available to answer questions I might have from time to time,
such as Russian slang, food, etc. I would like to get my facts streight
so readers will obtain an accurate portriat of the Russian heroine.
Thank you.
Julie Gettys
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Sender: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: Announcing the KYRGNEWS List (fwd) (x-posted from CenAsia)
X-POST from CIVILSOC list
The message below describes the latetest project of IREX's Internet
program in the NIS.
)From: Jonathan Korn (jkorn@NLPUB.FREENET.BISHKEK.SU)
The students of the Kyrgyz-American School in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with
the support of the Kyrgyzstan Freenet, the International Research &
Exchanges Board (IREX) and the KAS administration, are proud to announce
the creation of the KYRGNEWS mailing list.
The objective of KYRGNEWS is to provide a forum for discussion of current
events in the Kyrgyz Republic as well as events around Central Asia and
elsewhere which have a direct effect on the Republic.
Subscribers to KYRGNEWS will receive the weekly Kyrgyz News Digest. Each
week, the KAS student editors produce English summaries of a number of
important articles from major Kyrgyzstani Kyrgyz- and Russian-language
periodicals.
To subscribe to KYRGNEWS and the Kyrgyz News Digest, send a message to:
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The subject line OR body of the message should contain a single word:
subscribe
If you would like to post a message to the mailing list, address your
message to:
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Previous editions of the Kyrgyz News Digest may be obtained by email
request to editors Bolot Kerimbaev or Edil Baissaloff at
(bolot@kaf.freenet.bishkek.su) or (edil@kaf.freenet.bishkek.su). Back
issues of Digest will soon be archived at the Kyryzstan Freenet website.
The Kyrgyzstan Freenet is an endeavor of the International Research &
Exchanges Board (IREX) Internet Project for Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyzstani
academic and non-profit communities. The Internet Project is supported by
the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Eurasia
Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Please visit our
website at (http://www.freenet.bishkek.su).
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Sender: "S.A. Benedict Hopkins" (100070.775@compuserve.com)
Subject: Updated Programs
Dear Webmaster,
I would really appreciate if you could mention on your web page the
following files that I have uploaded to the Internet.
They are a 66,600 word Russian-English, English-Russian dictionary, a
Freeware 6,000 word version, a Russian-English vocabulary driller and a
Cyrillic to Latin transliterator.
I have uploaded them to two sites;
ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/windows/
ftp://ftp.kiae.su/windows/text/dic
All these files are also available in the Foreign Languages Forum in
CompuServe. ( GO FLEFO)
I enclose full details for you below.
Thanking you very much in advance.
Benny Hopkins
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File: Slovar.zip
Original-Date: 96-03-01
Size: 850,568 bytes
Description: A simple English-Russian, Russian-English 66,600 word dictionary
based on a Word v2 document. It works also for Word v6
and Word 7 (Win 95 version).
It requires a keyboard driver such as CyrWin or ParaWin to
switch
from cyrillic to latin characters. Also Microsoft Word 2+ and
Windows 3.+
Copyright C 1995-1996 S.A.Benedict Hopkins
Feedback: 100070.775@compuserve.com Benny Hopkins
Location:
ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/windows/
ftp://ftp.kiae.su/windows/text/dic
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File: Mal-slov.zip
Original-Date: 96-03-01
Size: 132,694 bytes
Description: A simple English-Russian, Russian-English 6,000 word dictionary
based on a Word v2 document.
Requires a keyboard driver such as CyrWin or ParaWin to switch
from cyrillic to latin characters. Also Microsoft Word
2+ and Windows 3.+
Copyright C 1995-1996 S.A.Benedict Hopkins
Feedback: 100070.775@compuserve.com Benny Hopkins
Location:
ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/windows/
ftp://ftp.kiae.su/windows/text/dic
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File: rus-dril.zip
Original-Date: 96-03-01
Size: 319,556 bytes
Description: A Russian-English vocabulary driller made up of 2,175 most
commonly used Russian words or phrases. It also includes
a Russian verb driller and other grammer tables. It is
Freeware and is based on an Excel 4 spreadsheet and Word
v2 documents. It is an excellent tool for all beginner
students of Russian.
Copyright C 1995-1996 S.A.Benedict Hopkins
Feedback: 100070.775@compuserve.com Benny Hopkins
Location:
ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/windows/
ftp://ftp.kiae.su/windows/text/dic
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File: rus-tool.zip
Original-Date: 96-03-01
Size: 120,715 bytes
Description: A Word macro that will transliterate cyrillic characters
from CP1251 and KOI8 (Relcom) standards to latin
characters. By transliterating cyrillic characters to Latin,
it is possible to communicate to virtually any e-mail system.
I have also included a template for Russian style
envelopes.
Copyright C 1995-1996 S.A.Benedict Hopkins
Feedback: 100070.775@compuserve.com Benny Hopkins
Location:
ftp://infomeister.osc.edu/pub/central_eastern_europe/russian/windows/
ftp://ftp.kiae.su/windows/text/dic
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Sender: jcentner@hamptons.com (Jonathan Centner)
Subject: Localised Macintosh software
I am new to this list and did not see a FAQ so I post my request forthwit:
I have the localised system 7 MacOS for the Russian language, but I have
not been able to get MacPPP and MacTCP to work under that system.
I need a woraround, preferably one which uses localised Russian language
software.
Has Netscape and Eudora been localised, or is the KO1-8 workaround the only
one available (unsatisfactory because the OS and app menus are stil English
only)?
I also need a Cyrillic font vendor who answers phone calls! Surely the
Russian Font selection is greater than Latinski. Adobe publishes over 2000
Roman fonts afterall.
Thanks for the help
Do skoroj electro-vstrechi
Jon Centner
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Sender: Will Gensburg (willg@its-ship.com)
Subject: AIR COURIER/AIRFREIGHT CIS
International Transport Solutions, Inc. is an international air courier and
international airfreight company specializing in Eastern Europe and the
Former Soviet Union.
We provide fast, efficient and economical door to door delivery of
documents, packages and freight to thousands of communities in Eastern
Europe, The Russian Federation and all CIS countries.
Feel free to view our website: http://www.its-ship.com/eeur.htm
or contact us for more information.
Yours sincerely,
Will Gensburg
INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS, INC.
tel: (718) 995-0017
toll free: (800) ITS-SHIP
fax: (718) 995-0019
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Sender: kasaty@seanet.com (Peter Kasaty)
Subject: FYI: updated "A Belarus Miscellany" web site
Hi Fellow Belarus List Members,
I would like to re-announce the web site I maintain related to this
discussion list:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~kasaty/miscellany.html
I have updated the information as of Feb. 25th and Feb. 26th (and have
been adding info every week or two). The site now comprises nine
separate files, each of which have the date at the bottom. I mention
this since, should you have a large "cache" on your personal computer,
you may not be viewing the latest version. If you access the page and
the dates at the bottom are earlier than 1996/02/25 or 1996/02/26, you
need to click on the "reload" or a similar button on your browser.
I would also like to thank the many people who have contributed to the
information contained in this web site. It *IS* a group effort. I
would like the web site to contain as much information as possible
about Belarus (although I may end up regretting saying that as I try
to find time to keep it up to date).
Of course, some of you have very interesting web sites related to
Belarus, particularly ones that are truly multimedia (with graphics
and audio), and I hope I have included links to all of them.
Suggestions, new information, corrections, etc., for the web site
and/or this discussion list, are of course, appreciated. :-)
Best wishes to you all!
-- Peter Kasaty kasaty@seanet.com
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Sender: "Dr. Pyotr Johannevich van de Waal-Palms, American_Bank, USA"
Subject: The worst news I've heard all year.
Taken from Palmport-list
For further information about implication and discussion by institutional
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In message text type: subscribe palmport-list (your e-mail address)
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 15:51:46 -0800
)From: Douglas Keene (mfgman@cts.com)
To: Return-Path: ;
To: Palmport List Members.
This was in today's news:
"U.S. COMPUTER MAKER HALTS RUSSIAN PRODUCTION. IBM has decided to stop
assembling its own PCs at the Kvant enterprise in Zelenograd, near
Moscow, AFP reported on 27 February. The joint venture at the former
defense plant began in 1993, and was producing 40,000 units a month. The
Moscow authorities granted the plant an exemption from taxes on imported
components, but in 1994 in response to a Duma law barring such waivers
they reimposed the taxes, adding 8.5% to the final cost. IBM was unable
to compete with imports of finished PCs by Russian trading companies
which continued to enjoy tax exemptions. In 1995, Russians bought
roughly 1 million PCs." [this means that this factory was supplying almost
half of all the computers sold in Russia last year]
In a nutshell, this demonstrates the problem for economic advancement in
Russia today, especially related to foreign investors. If the article is
correct, this business was shipping units with an estimated retail value of
between $40 and $80 million a MONTH. Thats $960 million a year in the
retail economy! I can't imagine a more positive example of successful free
enterprise, or an operation with more positive effects on the people and
economy of Zelenograd, or Russia. Now how many people will go back on the
street with no job, needing public assistance? How many local stores will
close because these people have stopped feeding the economy with their
wages? How much government revenue was lost?
So now the jobs will go outside Russia. Dell and HP in the U.S., and
Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese suppliers will now take over the market with
imports taking money out of the economy. A few trading companies will make
some money instead of 1000's of people working in Zelenograd. I have spent
many years in the computer industry, I know the business well, and I can't
imagine a better, cleaner, more productive business for establishment in
private Russian factories. I also know that it is a very low margin
business, and 8.5% could easily knock someone out of the market, even in
this country. Also, for import duties to push the finished cost up by 8.5%,
the duties must have been extremely high. I had been looking for clients to
do some electronic work in Russia myself, but now this example virtually
destroys any near term chance of convincing anyone of the viability of such
a venture.
The establishment of economic "free-trade" zones for foreign investors, with
tax, transportation, customs, and other incentives, is the best way of
priming the pump of a sick economy, bringing in outside cash, and
encouraging export (which brings in more cash). An added benefit,
offsetting the revenue loss of the special incentives, is that 1000's of
people are paid (taxable), buy (taxable), and the people's businesses that
they use also are paid (taxable) and spend (taxable), etc.. Something needs
done to assure that these kinds of disasters -- and it is a true disaster
just as much as from a flood or fire in the town -- never happen again.
Its really a sad situation. Forgive my candor but this makes me a little
sick of heart for a country with such great promise, such talent, and with
such wonderful opportunities in its future if it will only wake up and
realize what it is doing to itself. I'm looking for suggestions, comments,
and dialogue on the subject, with the goal of somehow influencing the situation.
If it will help, feel free to pass my comments on to someone that might need
to hear.
Best Regards,
Douglas Keene
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M. Douglas Keene & Associates
Worldwide Manufacturing Consultants
San Diego, California USA
e-mail: mfgman@cts.com
Phone: 619-944-0397
FAX: 619-944-0619
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Sender: "Dennis McConnell - UMaine, U.S.A." (mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU)
Subject: NRC Call for Collaborative Proposals
I have today received the attached Call for Proposals, and have
presented below some of the essential features of the announce-
ment. The program supports visits by American specialists to the
NIS. NIS members of the list may want to inform American counter-
parts about this program. For further information and/or a com-
plete announcement, please contact the address provided at the
bottom of the announcement.
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Call for Collaborative Proposals - U.S. & NIS Specialists
Office for Central Europe and Eurasia
National Research Council
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The Office for Central Europe and Eurasia of the National Re-
search Council (NRC) is accepting proposals to support collabora-
tive research between American specialists and their colleagues
from the Newly Independent States (NIS) in fields of public
policy requiring substantial input from the applied sciences.
This program will provide funds for individual American special-
ists to travel to the NIS for periods of two weeks, on month, or
two months.
Applications will be accepted in the fields of agriculture,
energy, environmental studies, industrial policy, public health,
research management and science polity. Proposals will also be
accepted in the fields of business management, economics, educa-
tion, law, political science, and sociology, provided they in-
clude significant input from the applied sciences. This list of
fields is meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive.
The program is intended to facilitate collaboration which will
lead to significant publications jointly authored by American and
NIS specialists in areas of pressing public policy concerns. The
program is also intended to provide American researchers access
to specialized facilities, unique databases, and geographic areas
that can significantly enrich research and publications of broad
international interest. Finally, the program is intended to
facilitate sustained cooperative research interactions between
U.S. and foreign institutions.
The complete, two-page announcement provides information about
eligibility, financial arrangements, the application process,
evaluation and selection, and reporting requirements.
The application deadline is March 15, 1996.
For complete information, you may contact:
Office for Central Europe and Eurasia (FO 2014)
National Research Council
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20418
Tel: (202) 334-2644
Fax: (202) 334-2614
Email: ocee@nas.edu
OCEE home page: http//www.nas.edu/ocee
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Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: UKRAINE FAQ + Presents: Ukrainian Weekly Preview March 3rd, 1995
now ONLINE!
now ONLINE!
Greetings,
The latest preview of the Ukrainian Weekly is now available
on the Ukraine FAQ Plus site! This is an exclusive regular
feature each week. The Ukrainian Weekly is the largest
English-speaking weekly newspaper extant in the Western
world covering Ukrainian issues both in Ukraine and in the
Diaspora. The preview is available on Internet at the
address of the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project.
The address of the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project is:
http://world.std.com/~sabre/UKRAINE.html
Either click the button labelled "Current Events" by the
Tryzub (Trident) graphic or scroll down and click the
"Current Events" section summary to access this latest
news.
As always, please feel free to email us at faq@tryzub.com
with comments. We always are looking for contributions
as well.
Regards,
Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj
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