Digest for 96-04-04
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
01-04 April 96 Ecostan News: Ecological News from Central Asia
02-04 April 96 Penza: Some Pages of Russian History
03-04 April 96 Moscow Business Telephone Guide
04-04 April 96 The International Conference on Chernobyl
05-04 April 96 Field Studies in the Heart of Provincial Russia: Spring
Journalism, Political Science and Societal Practicum
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-04 April 96 Sender: jennifer green (jlgreen@clark.net)
Subject: FPSPACE Workshop
02-04 April 96 Sender: Tony Byrne - IREX (tbyrne@info.irex.org)
Subject: OpenWeb: electronic publishing for Russian NGOs
03-04 April 96 Sender: joseph malm (jmalm@unm.edu)
Subject: acquiring visas
04-04 April 96 Sender: Lorenzo Perez (olorenzo@ix16.ix.netcom.com)
Subject: Help request
05-04 April 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukrainian Statement on the Cancellation of
Yeltsin's Visit to Ukraine.
06-04 April 96 Sender: ericd@citynet.net
Subject:
07-04 April 96 Sender: andreash@eexi.gr (Andreas Halkiadakis)
Subject: help!!!
08-04 April 96 Sender: Martin Ryle (RYLE@urvax.urich.edu)
Subject: Management position may be opening for qualified woman
09-04 April 96 Colleen Halley (cfhalley@glas.apc.org)
Subject: Boston homestay? (fwd)
10-04 April 96 Sender: Alexander Bezborodko (balex@io.org)
Subject: Advertising opportunitys.
11-04 April 96 Sender: takano@glas.apc.org (Makoto TAKANO
Subject: Funded ISTC projects at March Governing Board Meeting
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Ecostan News: Ecological News from Central Asia
Latest update includes:
American Legal Consortium's $1,000,000 for Central
Asian NGOs Turkmenistan's Kulans
The Caspian Sea and the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
Kazakstan's Red Data Book
Turkmenistan's Russians
US Military to Begin Sealing Kazakstan Nuclear Test
Site in April
Reconstruction of Turkmenbashi's Port
Tabiat: Ecological News from Tajikistan
Please see the Education/Science page; then select Scientific
Resources; then choose Environmental Sciences section from the
Discipline Pages category or directly at URL:
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/edusci/science/ecostan/ecostan.4.4.h
tml
* Penza: Some Pages of Russian History
"Penza-some pages of Russian history. The Web-pages contain some
interesting facts about original Russian city with more than three
hundred years history. These are illustrated by nice pictures of sites
and perspectives of the Penza city."
Please see the Russian/NIS History section from the History page
or directly at URL:
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/mes/centr/penza/penza.html
Our thanks to Alexey Tikhonov (ayt@vmis.pti.ac.ru) for making
this fascinating material available.
* Moscow Business Telephone Guide
"The most comprehensive, leading Moscow Business Telephone Directory
publication with 10 updated issues per year, including all commercially
active companies in Moscow, Russia."
Please see the Who's Who page or Economics/Business in Russia/NIS
section from the Economics/Business page. Also, it is located at URL:
http://news.std.com/moscow/
* The International Conference on Chernobyl (on the World Vision WWW site)
On April, 24-26 in Mozyr, Belarus - the closest inhabited city to
Chernobyl - this conference is set to draw world-wide attention to the
current problems of the people who still live in these areas.
Please see the Meetings and Conferences section from the
Funding/Exchange page or directly at URL:
http://www.friends-partners.org/~wvision/
* Field Studies in the Heart of Provincial Russia: Spring Journalism,
Political Science and Societal Practicum
The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture and the
Institute for International Communication, two independent, non-profit
educational centers of Tver InterContact Group, announce the opening of
the First International Journalism and Political Studies Practicum in
Tver.
Please see the Meetings and Conferences section from the
Funding/Exchange page or directly at URL:
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/funding/practicum.html
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
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** 01 **********************************************************************
Sender: jennifer green (jlgreen@clark.net)
Subject: FPSPACE Workshop
Our Friends and Partners in Space (FPSPACE) workshop kicks off next week
in Moscow (April 8-12) and promises to be an interesting forum for
discussion on US and Russian space programs. While in Moscow we'll be
touring several museums and institutes and have scheduled working sessions
on topics including Mir/International Space Station and Lunar/Mars
programs. We have 14 non-Russian participants and will have at least that
many Russians. Our two university partners, Bauman Moscow State Technical
University and Moscow Aviation Institute have set up a great program for
us and our opening day meetings will be hosted by the Russian Space
Agency.
We have a FPSPACE e-mail list which has been growing rapidly over the past
several months. To subscribe, send a "subscribe fpspace Your Name" message
to listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu. This is mostly discussion on Russian space
programs, but I also post administrative notes on FPSPACE to the list. If
you have any questions about the project, please write me at
jlgreen@clark.net. BTW, I will be in Moscow from April 4-May 31.
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Jennifer L. Green | Friends and Partners in Space, Project Director
jlgreen@clark.net | http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~jgreen/fpspace.html
*** information and projects dealing with US/Russian space programs ***
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Sender: Tony Byrne - IREX (tbyrne@info.irex.org)
Subject: OpenWeb: electronic publishing for Russian NGOs
IREX, in cooperation with the Center for Curative Pedagogics and the
State Historical Public Library in Moscow, is pleased to announce the
creation of a public-publishing Web site for Russian NGOs.
The OpenWeb Workshop is a computer classroom and server in the
Historical Library with a high-speed connection to the Internet.
Representatives of local noncommercial organizations are invited to
learn hypertext markup language (HTML), scan images, and mount
homepages on-line, all free-of-charge.
This effort is supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York and
USAID through World Learning, Inc. OpenWeb has been created under
the auspices of the Russian Children's Health and Rehabilitation
Network Project and features the home pages of several organizations
involved in that effort, but is now open to all Russian NGOs.
Visit the site at http://www.openweb.ru
Interested organizations should contact the Webmaster/Coordinator,
Alexander Nikolaev.
E-mail: webmaster@openweb.ru
State Historical Public Library
Tel. (095) 925-65-14 (city); 3-46 (extension)
Starosadskii pereulok, d. 9, kom. 311
Tony Byrne
IREX/Washington
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Sender: joseph malm (jmalm@unm.edu)
Subject: acquiring visas
Does anyone know the latest on acquiring visas to travel through Russia
and central asian countries. Ive heard it can be rather expensive to get
a visa the the borders, especially in kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgzistan,
and the central asian borders with russia. Also , information about
multiple entry visas, tourist visas and business visas would be helpful
as would the embassys' or consulates' addresses. Much Thanks
Joseph Malm
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Sender: Lorenzo Perez (olorenzo@ix16.ix.netcom.com)
Subject: Help request
Whom it may concern:
Please, I am looking for information on a russian tradition
called "PAMINKY". This is a ceremony that take place in honor of a dead
person after the funeral.
Would yo please send me some information about this subjecto, or
where may I find it?
Than you.
olorenzo@ix.netcom.com
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Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukrainian Statement on the Cancellation of Yeltsin's Visit to Ukraine.
Greetings,
The complete statement may be found at:
http://www.tryzub.com/UKRAINE/
Regards,
Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj
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Sender: ericd@citynet.net
Subject:
Dear Friends:
Our partners in Kaliningrad, Moscow Region are beginning a new project,
attempting to bring all of the cities in the world that specialize in the
aerospace industry together.
)From April 9 to April 26, Alexey Cheremnykh and Vladimir Panomarpov, both
deputy mayors of the city of Kaliningrad, will be traveling to several US
cities to meet with mayors and establish an International Aerospace Cities
Alliance. The cities they will be visiting include: Nassau Bay, Texas
(Mission Control of Houston); New Orleans, Louisiana; Bay Saint Lewis,
Mississippi (Stennis Space Center); Huntsville, Alabama; Greenbelt,
Maryland (Goddard); Cleveland, Ohio (Lewis); Fairmont, West Virginia;
Hampton, Virginia (Langley). Other cities will be invited to join in the
future.
For more information about this exciting project, go the Russia and West
Virginia Foundation Homepage at http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ericd/index.htm.
The complete text of the appeal from the mayor of Kaliningrad and some of
the purposes for the Alliance.
Sincerely,
Eric Douglas
Russia and West Virginia Foundation
Http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ericd/index.htm
Ericd@citynet.net
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Sender: andreash@eexi.gr (Andreas Halkiadakis)
Subject: help!!!
Dear friends help us!!!
we are playing the Swatch game (http://www.swatch-art.com)
and a 3rd question is:
"Kremlin high-flyers don't belong to the jet-set."
If you read this 'riddle' what do you thing first
and in what WWWsite are you going to search?
Please answer us as soon as possible. Friendly :-)#
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/ _` | `_ \ / _` | `__/ _ \/ _` ( _) andreash@eexi.gr
(_) | | | | (_) | | | __/ (_) |\ \ Andreas Halkiadakis
\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|_| \___|\__,_(___) http://www.eexi.gr/~andreash
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Sender: Martin Ryle (RYLE@urvax.urich.edu)
Subject: Management position may be opening for qualified woman
An organisation I know is looking for a female manager for a project they
might be setting up in Russia and asked me if I knew someone. Well, I
don't, but one of you might be interested.
This organisation is one of the 5 remaining contenders for a EU-sponsored
project planned for Sep 95-Sep 96. The project which they have applied to
take on is one of encouragement, counseling, training of Russian women who
have just or are planning to start their own business. The organisation
has an extensive experience with undertaking such projects of guiding and
helping aspiring business women of various nationalities, but has few
experience of doing so in Russia.
So what they are looking for is a long-timer, preferably a woman, who has
extensive managerial experience, speaks Russian fluently, has perhaps
worked there before, and is prepared to do so for nine months in the period
mentioned above, and who is attracted to the idea behind this project.
The organisation is based in the Netherlands, so applicants should
preferably reside in NW-Europe.
At this moment this is all the information I can give: but if you are
interested in such a job, I can pass through the information you give about
yourself, and, when interested, they will contact you.
NOTE:(!!):
Please don't send your info to the adress probably stated in the from:
box (J.W.vanBeek@stud.let.ruu.nl) but to:
M.O.vanderBij@stud.let.ruu.nl
Thank you,
Joost van Beek
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Sender: Colleen Halley (cfhalley@glas.apc.org)
Subject: Boston homestay? (fwd)
Greetings,
I am writing on behalf of a friend who will be travelling with her son and
mother to the US in the end of April for a period of one month. They will
travel to Boston, Massacucetts in order for her son to undergo a series of
operations on his eyes to restore his vision. Her son is one-year old and
suffers from a very bad eye problem which cannot adequately be treated here
in Russia. Arrangements have already been made at Schepens Associates in
Boston to perform the necessary series of operations in order to fix this
condition. The family has been lucky enough to find a sponsor here in
Russia who is willing to cover the cost of the procedure.
While they have secured a sponsor to pay for the medical and travel costs,
they must cover their own living expenses while in the US. I am looking for
anyone who can help locate either an affordable place to stay in Boston, or
a possible homestay for the three of them, for a period of one month
starting April 27, 1996.
Any suggestions can be forwarded to me here via e-mail:
cfhalley@glas.apc.org
Thank you in advance for any assistance,
Colleen F. Halley
cfhalley@glas.apc.org
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Sender: Alexander Bezborodko (balex@io.org)
Subject: Advertising opportunitys.
We are inviting you to advertise in our Internet publications:
1.Premier Web site devoted to promoting Russian business -
"Russian Marketplace"
http://www.io.org/~rusmart/Overview.html
FREE advertisements(three months) in English or Russian for
Russian businesses looking for the customers World-wide and for ALL
businesses interested in Russian customers.
Send Advertisement of any size and YOU CAN HAVE A FULL WEB
PAGE OF YOUR OWN for three months Free.
If you have a Web site already, an ad in "Russian marketplace" is the
perfect way to set up a high-traffic and topic-related link to your site.
If you don't have a Web site, the ad in the "Russian Marketplace" is a great
way to try out the Web, and to use "Russian Marketplace" as your temporary
home on the Net.
If you want to continue your advertisement after initial three months,
we asking you to pay only for the REAL result: $40 for every 1000
customers accessing your Advertisement-Page. As it going now
it can take a full year to reach this number.
2.First Russian language Web newspaper in America - "Vesti"-
http://www.io.org/~balex/Overview.html (online version of Canadian
Russian-language newspaper "Vesti").
Internet "Vesti" is published twice a month since September 25, 1995
with approximately 10000 hits per month (number is
increasing).
Readers: from many countries, including USA -53%, Canada -15%,
Russia -3.5%, Israel - 1.3% ...
Most popular pages: Classifieds and Immigration.
ONLY $10 per month for advertising of 100 words or less.
Your ads will be HTML-formatted and may include a link to your
Web site.
Send your ad by E-mail or Fax:
Alex Bezborodko
BALEX WEBCOM Company
Tel: (416)368-0102
Fax: (416)368-9525
E-mail: balex@io.org
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Sender: takano@glas.apc.org (Makoto TAKANO
Subject: Funded ISTC projects at March Governing Board Meeting
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNING BOARD MEETING (MARCH 28-29, 1996) OF
THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) has entered its
third year of operation. The ISTC opened in March 1994, under the
auspices of an intergovernmental agreement between the Russian
Federation, the European Union, Japan, and the United States.
Note: The rest of this information can be located at the
following URL:
http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/funding/meetings.html
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