Digest for 96-03-12
Dear Friends,
Please see the "What's New" announcement #1 below for information on
our newly remodeled F&P Kitchen - *and* the contest we announce today
(big prizes!) to entice you to visit. If you are someone who eats,
please visit our kitchen and share your favorite recipes with friends
from around the world . .
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-12 March 96 Friends and Partners Cookbook Contest!
#02-12 March 96 American Institute on Political and Economic Systems
#03-12 March 96 Clintondale Aviation Online
#04-12 March 96 Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
#05-12 March 96 Amber, Tours, Inc.
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-12 March 96 Sender: Maxim.Sitnikov@bbs.relinfo.mari.su
Subject: penpals
02-12 March 96 Sender: Luc Buijsrogge (Luc.Buijsrogge@ping.be)
Subject: looking for Russian pen-pals
03-12 March 96 Sender: ch16954@conrad.appstate.edu
Subject: Communication with Russia from Valle Crucis
04-12 March 96 Sender: Boris Gorovits (gorovits@bioc02.uthscsa.edu)
Subject: photo lovers
05-12 March 96 Sender: Center for Civil Society International
(ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: PenPals
06-12 March 96 Sender: Lois Ann Gacek (loann@ici.net)
Subject: teacher, wants to write to Russians and share cultures
07-12 March 96 Sender: Marshall Paul (abelard@HUB.ofthe.NET)
Subject: Breshnev
08-12 March 96 Sender: wlrnrp@shadow.net
Subject: searching for a town in Ukraine or Russia
09-12 March 96 Sender: Donald Kakretz (dkakretz@csc.sctboces.org)
Subject: Captured German armaments
10-12 March 96 Sender: papae_d@unr.edu
Subject: Travel
11-12 March 96 Sender: "ROBERT C. DRUCKER" (midnight@nyic.com)
Subject: help, please?
12-12 March 96 Sender: Charles Radley (charles@tgn.net)
Subject: Soviet Scientist Immigration Act - 1992
13-12 March 96 Sender: markoi@ix.netcom.com (Prieur'e de Sion )
Subject: St. Petersburg Information
14-12 March 96 Sender: Martin Ryle (RYLE@urvax.urich.edu)
Subject: CFP: SIBERIAN & AMERICAN FRONTIER, TOMSK, OCT. 96
15-12 March 96 Sender: richard@ic.redline.ru (Richard Smith)
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Russian in Russia -- in Tver
16-12 March 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukrainian Weekly Preview March 10th, 1995 now ONLINE!
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
----------------------------------------------------------------------
WHAT'S NEW . . .
* We invite you to visit Sasha's newly remodeled kitchen on Friends and
Partners. Here, you will find a new version of David Zlotchenko's
US/Russian/International Cookbook where you can browse and search for
recipes - and also share with everyone your own culinary favorites. There
are pointers to other Internet resources about cooking and eating, a new
interactive forum where you can contribute your own stories,
traditions, etc., and the "Kitchen Chat" room where you can share
information on whatever topic you like.
In a shameless effort to entice you to contribute, we are sponsoring a
contest in which we will award big prizes (well, 2 cookbooks!) to the two
individuals who contribute the most (and most tasty) recipes. The contest
will be judged by eight judges (four in Russia; four in America) and will
be weighted heavily for number of recipes contributed but also will include
the quality of the recipes (the judges will even cook and report on
some of them!).
The contest rules are simple. Just visit the new kitchen area
(URL: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/life/kitchen/) from the
"Life" page, choose the cookbook section and then contribute as many
recipes as you like using the easy-to-complete form or by sending email to
cookbook@solar.rtd.utk.edu. The prizes will be awarded (and mailed) to
the two winners - the American/International cookbook to a Russia/NIS
participant and the Russian cookbook to a participant from America (or
anywhere else). The final date for submitting recipes for the contest
will be April 12, 1995, and we will announce the winners on April 19.
The two prizes are:
"A Taste of Russia, A Cookbook of Russian Hospitality";
Traditional Recipes from Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuana, and the Other Soviet Republics.
Darra Goldstein. Published by Harper Perennial (304 pages)
"Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedia Cookbook"; Edited by
Ruth Berolzheimer. A Perigee Book published by The Berkley
Publishing Group (974 pages)
We want to thank our friend David Zlotchenko once again for providing
us with such a nice cookbook facility and a special thank you to Sasha
Ovchinnikov who has done a wonderful job remodeling our kitchen and
creating the new interactive kitchen/cuisine forums. Sasha continues
to make F&P a much more interesting and more interactive place!
Also, we welcome Jodi Fryman who joins us as moderator of the
"Kitchen Chat" room. Jodi has travelled in Russia and will be glad
to answer questions and help with discussion in this new room.
Please enter the contest and share your culinary favorites with
your friends from around the world!
* For those in search of a unique cross-cultural educational program,
The Fund for American Studies will offer the American Institute on
Political and Economic Systems from July 13 to August 3, 1996 in
Prague, Czech Republic. The Institute will be selecting 100 students
from Central and Eastern Europe to attend the program this summer.
Along with providing a cross-cultural experience for the students,
it also involves classroom lectures and disucssions of economic and
politcal systems and many informal activities that build lasting
relationships among the students.
The Fund's partners in this endeavor are host Charles University and
Georgetown University, among the oldest and most prestigious universities
in Central Europe and the United States, respectively.
Deadline date: April 12, 1996
If you have questions and/or would like application materials, please
contact Mr. Roger Ream at:
e-mail: 75604.3347@compuserve.com
telephone (202) 986-0384
fax (202) 986-0390
* Clintondale Aviation Online
This company has been chartering aircraft throughout the FSU
and Eastern Europe since 1992. Please see the "Shipping and
Transportation Services" section from the Commercial Services
page or directly at URL:
http://www.albany.net/~mhamilto/clintondale/index.html
* Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Provided by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Lists Internet sources for literary texts in western European
languages other than English. Please see the "Other Internet
Literature Resources" section from the Literture page or
directly at URL:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
* Amber, Tours, Inc.
A New York/Moscow partnership of travel agents
offering a full range of services to and from Russia.
Exchange program hosts and expatriates wishing to
bring people over -- pay for tickets in the US, pick
them up in Moscow.
Please see the new Travel Agencies section on the Travel
page or directly at URL:
http://www.users.interport.net/~lana/ambertours/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
** 01 **********************************************************************
Sender: Maxim.Sitnikov@bbs.relinfo.mari.su
Subject: penpals
How can we find friends in the USA?
My e-mail address is maxsit@beard.relinfo.mari.su.
** 02 **********************************************************************
Sender: Luc Buijsrogge (Luc.Buijsrogge@ping.be)
Subject: looking for Russian pen-pals
Hello,
I am not living in the USA but I'm looking for Russian
privat e-mail adresses of persons who want to correspond with
me.
Can you help me to find them?
Thanks anyway
Yours sincerely,
Luc Buijsrogge
** 03 **********************************************************************
Sender: ch16954@conrad.appstate.edu
Subject: Communication with Russia from Valle Crucis
We are trying to link up with some Russian students. We have a list of
questions we wish to ask them. We also want them to reply on E-mail so
that we can experience telecommunication.The students also want to make a
CD rom with multi media information on what it is like here in Watauga
County, NC. Please help us!!!
Kitty Hailey----------------------------------------CH16954@alf.appstate.edu
AG teacher
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CRAZY BUT IT HELPS
** 04 **********************************************************************
Sender: Boris Gorovits (gorovits@bioc02.uthscsa.edu)
Subject: photo lovers
Hi,
I am looking for photo lovers (any level of experience) located in
Russia. I am currently in Texas (USA) and take pictures as an amateur Drop
me a line if you mind to talk over EMAIL. Boris Gorovits
** 05 **********************************************************************
Sender: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Subject: PenPals (x-post from civilsoc)
NIS-American Penfriend Exchange
Thousands of children, teens, and adults from the former Soviet Union
countries are seeking postal mail (not email) penpals in the United
States. The organization "SAPE" (formerly called "The Soviet-American
Penfriend Exchange") has been matching Americans with penpals in the
former USSR since 1989. In the past year, more than 100,000 letters have
arrived from the former USSR and they desperately need help to find
penpals in the USA for these people. Mailings done to US schools have
resulted in penpals for less than 10% of these people. Individuals or
groups (aged 10 and up) who would like to participate should send a
self-addressed stamped envelope to SAPE at:
SAPE
P.O. Box 251689
Glendale, CA 91225
U.S.A.
Please feel free to pass this on to any other individuals, families,
classes, or youth groups you think may be interested in participating!!
** 06 **********************************************************************
Sender: Lois Ann Gacek (loann@ici.net)
Subject: teacher, wants to write to Russians and share cultures
I live on the East coast of the U. S.. I teach second grade, and have
always been interested in life in Russia. I have a sailboat, and enjoy the
sea. I have two children. One is in college, and one is in High School. My
daughter has a pen pal in Australia, and loves to get E-mail. I would too.
Would like to swap stories about everyday life.
** 07 **********************************************************************
Sender: Marshall Paul (abelard@HUB.ofthe.NET)
Subject: Breshnev
First, let me apologize for bothering everyone with my password.
Next, anyone interested in a complete seven-record set of Breshnev's speeches:
yours for the price of the postage. I will provide the packing material.
Contact me by email, first; I will stand-by for the first requester to send
me enough stamps. These records have seen _very_ little play time. (I
can't imagine who would sit through this stuff, but I am hoping that some
graduate student would see an opportunity...)
Marshall Paul
PO Box 854
Lubbock, TX 79408-0854
email as above
** 08 **********************************************************************
Sender: wlrnrp@shadow.net
Subject: searching for a town in Ukraine or Russia
I am looking for the birthplace of my parternal grandfather. I believe the
city, town or steppe was called Temeshev (sorry for the spelling - I do
not know the correct way). He was born around 1896 in what my
relatives refer to as the town mentioned, in "Russia." I would appreciate
any help in locating this area. Thanks in advance.
Rick Potlock
WLRN-TV
rix17@www.wlrn.org --or-- wlrnrp@shadow.net
** 09 **********************************************************************
Sender: Donald Kakretz (dkakretz@csc.sctboces.org)
Subject: Captured German armaments
Dear Friends and Partners,
I will be going to the Ural mountain region of Russia this summer, and I
would like to make contact with a Russian government/military official
concerning the export of captured German World War II rifles to the United
States. Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Donald A. Kakretz
E-Mail dkakretz@csc.sctboces.org
FAX 607 796 0502
** 10 **********************************************************************
Sender: papae_d@unr.edu
Subject: mailto:frnds@solar.rtd.utk.eduTravel
I would like to know, or find out, what the various costs of getting to
Russia are. What is the cheapest way to go? Is it worth doing it that way?
And are there any jobs in Russia that do not require an ability to speak
Russian from the get-go? By the way, I like this web site. Later.
** 11 **********************************************************************
Sender: "ROBERT C. DRUCKER" (midnight@nyic.com)
Subject: help, please?
my daughter & son in law will travel to ekaterinburg within the next 4
weeks to complete adoption of beautiful russian infant. we have no family
, physicians, local contacts in ekaterinburg. do you have any suggestions
or thoughts on what we might do when or before we arrive to secure ease
of completion of work in ekaterinburg. gratefully and with much
appreciation rdrucker@aol.com 3/9/96
** 12 **********************************************************************
Sender: Charles Radley (charles@tgn.net)
Subject: Soviet Scientist Immigration Act - 1992
X-POST from FPSPACE
Dear Friends & Partner Subscriber,
It seems most people are unaware of the Soviet Scientist Immigration Act of
1992. Congress authorized certain categories of scientists in the former
Soviet Union and from the Baltic States to emigrate to the United States.
Various provisions apply, including: a limit of 750 emigres per year;
the scientist must be highly qualified and has worked on an advanced weapons
system in the last ten years; the scientist will be exempted from labor
certification; the scientist does not need a job offer prior to receiving
the visa.
Closing date for applications is October 24th, 1996, although congress
of course might decide to extend it, typically for another year, but
this is not guaranteed.
If you know a qualified former-Soviet or Baltic Scientists who wishes to
emigrate to the USA, please contact me by email.
Best regards,
Charles R.
** 13 **********************************************************************
Sender: markoi@ix.netcom.com (Prieur'e de Sion )
Subject: St. Petersburg Information
Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know about my most plesant
experience in St. Petersburg. It was my driver/guide/interpreter, Mr.
Kirill Rasumov.
With the busy schedule I had planned it was worth it to negotiate the
metro system and the cost of hotel recommended drivers was way out of
my budget. Through a friend though I found a number of young Russian
adults who, using their own cars, act as drivers, guides, and
interpreters.
At $50.00 per day(US), and with being on call 24hrs a day, one couldn't
beat the price or the experience of 'seeing' St. Petersburg this way.
I would like to recommend my particular driver to anyone planning on
visiting St. Petersburg. His contact information is: Mr. Kirill
Rasumov, Tel/Fax:(anytime) 7-812-275 66 59.
For anyone who uses Kirill I must recommend you tour his school, Public
School #157. He set this up for me through the director of the school
and it was one of my most fantastic memories of the city. The school
historian, a survivor and hero of the siege, has a tremoundous number
of artifacts which detail the history of the school from its
begginnings as a gym for the Czars, to its use as an Army school during
the war, to its use now as one of the best English schools in the city.
Thank You,
David L. Booth
CEO
Passion Fruit Enterprises, Inc.
Nashua, NH
Phone/Fax: 603-888-3501
E-Mail: markoi@ix.netcom.com
passionf@ix.netcom.com
** 14 **********************************************************************
Sender: Martin Ryle (RYLE@urvax.urich.edu)
Subject: CFP: SIBERIAN & AMERICAN FRONTIER, TOMSK, OCT. 96
(x-post from H-RUSSIA)
Second Announcement
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"AMERICAN AND SIBERIAN FRONTIER"
OCTOBER, 4-6, 1996
TOMSK
Organizers:
State Committee of Russian Federation on Higher Education,
Tomsk State University,
Siberian Association of American Studies
American Information Resource Center
The following problems are supposed to be discussed at the conference:
- Ways and forms of settlement on new territories.
- People of the frontier: myth and reality.
- Religious factor in settlement of the new historical space.
- Aborigenous peoples and national minorities.
Operating languages of the Conference: Russian and English.
The organizing committee requests you to confirm the participation in the
conference, to fill the application form (it is applied to this report) and
to send it to mail, fax, e-mail before June 30, 1996 in order to facilitate
the conference and its program.
The registration fee for foreign participants is 400 US D. It will cover
the cost of the hotel, meals, local transportation and other expenses. It
may be paid to the organizing committee in cash on arrival to Tomsk.
Address of Organizing Committee:
Russia, 634050, Tomsk,
Prospect Lenina 36,
Tomsk State University,
Department of Contemporary History,
Prof.Pelipas Michael
Fax +7 (3822)22-50-94
(3822)22-61-62
(3822)22-44-46
E-mail: dir@dir.tsu.tomsk.su
egz@amcenter.tsu.tomsk.su
Sincerely,
The Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Rector of Tomsk State University
Professor Georgy Mayer
(dir@dir.tsu.tomsk.su)
** 15 **********************************************************************
Sender: richard@ic.redline.ru (Richard Smith)
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Russian in Russia -- in Tver
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This is INFO-RUSS broadcast (1200+ subscribers). Home page, information,
and archives: http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/inforuss.html
To post, or to subscribe/unsubscribe, mail to info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu
INFO-RUSS bears no responsibility for the information
supplied by its users or/and for their views.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Tver InterContact Group Proudly Announces the First Issue
of its New Newsletter, Russian in Russia!
***************************************************************
Dear Colleagues:
The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture, in
conjunction with the Center for International Education of Tver
InterContact Group, announces the first issue of its new
informational newsletter "Russian in Russia." This newsletter
is addressed primarily to professors of Russian as a foreign
language, students and administrators of Slavic languages and
Russian Studies Departments, language and cultural center
specialists, international program directors, secondary school
teachers and students of Russian, as well as to all other
persons interested in Russian language and culture. It is printed
in Russian, and will be distributed by postal mail.
We hope, through this newsletter, to add diversity to your
professional reading list. We aim to provide objective
reporting of all educational issues and events of interest to
our readers. For those interested in receiving the first issue,
(the first six month subscription will be free of charge), please
send a request to Richard Smith at INFO@ic.redline.ru,
including your postal (i.e. snail mail) address.
Best regards,
Richard Smith
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Richard Smith, International Programs Director
International Institute of Russian Language and Culture
Tver InterContact Group
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Phone: +7.0822.425419 / 425439 Fax: +7.501.9021765
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
E-mail: RICHARD@ic.redline.ru
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
** 16 **********************************************************************
Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj) (by way of
Subject: UKRAINE FAQ + Presents: Ukrainian Weekly Preview March 10th, 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
*****************************************************************************
----------------------- END FRIENDS March 12, 1996 -------------------------
APPENDIX
FRIENDS is a free service started by friends in Russia and the United
States. This Listserv is one element of that service.
To subscribe to FRIENDS (if someone has passed you a copy of this
announcement), just send an email message to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
consisting of *one line* of the following format:
SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS firstname lastname
and substitute your first and last names for 'firstname lastname'
To unsubscribe from FRIENDS, send the message UNSUBSCRIBE FRIENDS to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
To post a message to FRIENDS, send it to: friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
To visit the FRIENDS WWW server, use the following URLs if you have
a World Wide Web browser: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
http://alice.ibpm.serpukhov.su/friends/home.html
If you don't have a WWW browser, just telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu
and enter 'friends' (in lower case and without the quotes) at the
login prompt.
or those who need it, the IP address of our computers are 198.78.202.12
193.124.128.212
Please address any comments, questions, or suggestions to your
moderators:
Natasha Bulashova, natasha@alice.ibpm.serpukhov.su
Greg Cole, gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Greg Cole, Director
Center for International Networking Initiatives
The University of Tennessee System Phone: (423) 974-7277
2000 Lake Avenue FAX: (423) 974-8022
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Greg Cole, Director
Center for International Networking Initiatives
The University of Tennessee System Phone: (423) 974-7277
2000 Lake Avenue FAX: (423) 974-8022
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu