Digest for 96-08-05
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-05 August 96 "Good Defeats Evil" Sculpture
#02-05 August 96 Ecostan News: Ecological News from Central Asia
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-05 August 96 Sender: Thava. 100556.2067@compuserve.com
Subject: Information to Research Community
02-05 August 96 Sender: gorbur@tir.com
Subject: Help!
03-05 August 96 Sender: BrightCole@aol.com
Subject: list of U.S. companies needed: POST to FRIENDS LIST
04-05 August 96 Sender: Cepia@aol.com
Subject: Visit to Prioksky
05-05 August 96 Sender: "rparvin@nicom.com" (rparvin@nicom.com)
Subject: Family
06-05 August 96 Sender: slyris@emarket.com
Subject: addlink about friends/culture/index.html
07-05 August 96 Sender: Dan Schwartzman daniel59@fast.net
Subject: Re: Question about E-mail in Russian
08-05 August 96 Sender: alexb@nestor.engr.utk.edu
Subject: info
09-05 August 96 Sender: Robert King (BJKING@cris.com)
Subject: TECHICAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN RUSSIA
FOR AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS
10-05 August 96 Sender: Lisa Sinclair-Smith (gsvn@igc.apc.org)
Subject: (no subject)
11-05 August 96 Sender: alexey (alexey@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Modern Russian poetry page extended
12-05 August 96 Sender: Sushma Palmer (SPalmer.CECHE.DC@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: NIS Health Promotion Bulletin
13-05 August 96 Sender: mark mccarthy (mmccarth@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
Subject: Survey: Russian Related Careers
14-05 August 96 Sender: Russian Info&Bus Ctr (rusric@erols.com)
Subject: Russian Regional Explorer CD-ROM
15-05 August 96 Sender: bboswell@aaas.org (BBOSWELL)
Subject: AAAS/DOE Travel Fellowship Program
16-05 August 96 Sender: William Raisner (RAISNER@USITA.GOV)
Subject: Computer Job in Uzbekistan
17-05 August 96 Sender: "Valerij I. Gerasimov" (valery@irga.vernet.lv)
Subject: Russian Public Information Center in Latvia
18-05 August 96 Sender: Sonja Franeta (sfraneta@sfsu.edu)
Subject: gay film festival in Tomsk
19-05 August 96 Sender: Remco Castner (castner@muenchen.org)
Subject: our next truck convoy to Belarus
20-05 August 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukrainian Weekly Preview August 4th,
21-05 August 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukrainian Weekly Special OLYMPIC
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* "Good Defeats Evil"
"The sculpture, by artist Zurab Tsereteli, stands at the northwest area
of the United Nations grounds, a gift from the Soviet Union to the
United Nations in 1990 to commemorate the forty-fifth anniversary of the
U.N.'s founding."
Please see the Art Exhibitions on the Art/Music/Literature
section or directly at URL:
http://www.teleport.com/~cos/collect/gde/
* Ecostan News: Ecological News from Central Asia
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.4.8.html
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
** 01 **********************************************************************
Sender: Thava. 100556.2067@compuserve.com
Subject: Information to Research Community
I am a research candidate at University of Luton, Faculty of Management. I
am reseaching in MAnagement Development and Change. I wish to contact
research community in the same area.rch.
My e-mail address is 100556.2067@compuserve.com. ( a personal address)
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Sender: gorbur@tir.com
Subject: Help!
I am trying to contact a friend in Moscow. We have communicated before by
E-mail. Now I get return mail informing me "host unkown". I have triple
checked the address and I am sure it correct. This problem has persisted
for over a month so I don't think it is a temporary problem with the
server. the site URL is "rex.iasnet.com". Any information will be most
appreciated.
Gordon
gorbur@kode.net
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Sender: BrightCole@aol.com
Subject: list of U.S. companies needed: POST to FRIENDS LIST
Dear FRIENDS AND PARTNERS:
Does anyone have or know if it it possible to obtain a list of U.S. companies
doing business in the FSU?
Also, any firms from Kansas City area?
Thanks.
Patrick Colebright
BrightCole@aol.com
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Sender: Cepia@aol.com
Subject: Visit to Prioksky
Please, I am coming to Russia and will be doing some Environmental Education
at Prioksky Reserve. I will be there for one month and would like to be able
to access the internet so I can check on my two small children while I am
gone. Do you know of a way that I could do so? I would be more comfortable
knowing that I could connect to home. Thank you in advance.
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Sender: "rparvin@nicom.com" (rparvin@nicom.com)
Subject: Family
Hello, how are you doing today? I am interested in getting information
about either news groups, or someone in russia who can help locate
information for me. My father (who will be on line soon) is interested
in researching his family history. His parents came from Belarus (sp?)
back in 1918. Are there any news groups/web group who might be able to
help research or someone I can contact via e-mail who can help? Thanks
for the assistance and information.
--
Ron Parvin
home: rparvin@nicom.com
(703) 742-8920
Robbins Gioia, Inc
work: (703) 838-2785
Alexandria, VA
"And once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your
eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to
return."
AIRBORNE!!!
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Sender: slyris@emarket.com
Subject: addlink about friends/culture/index.html
Name: Sonia Lyris
Email-address: slyris@emarket.com
Comment Type: addlink
Comment: Hello, I like your site, and I think you've done a nice job.
I would like to link to your page from my site, which
describes a sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to
the United Nations in 1990 to celebrate the UN's 45th
anniversary. Perhaps this is in keeping with the theme of
your site? If you think so, perhaps you will link to my site
as well. I hope you will take a look: http://
www.teleport.com/~cos/collect/gde/
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Sender: Dan Schwartzman daniel59@fast.net
Subject: Re: Question about E-mail in Russian
I don't know if you are the person to ask. I can read and
write in Russian, having studied it in college. I have friends
in Russia that I can reach via E-mail, but I only know how to
send it in English. I have obtained cyrillic fonts and can
read your Internet site both in English and Russian using my
Netscape browser with the correct fonts installed in the
Options section. Please let me know what I need to do to
compose E-mail in Cyrillic. I can use Microsoft Works for
Windows with cyrillic fonts, but don't know if I should attach
a file or try to compose the letter directly. I also don't know
what kind of word processing program my friends have. I have a
copy of Windows 95 Russian version that someone gave me, but I
have now loaded it as I heard that there were many bugs. If
you can answer my question, or steer me to someone who can,
please let me know. I also can get Russian newsgroups from the
relcom server to read in Russian with my browser as well.
Thank you,
Dan Schwartzman
daniel59@fast.net
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Sender: alexb@nestor.engr.utk.edu
Subject: info
Dear Sir (madam);
Planning to graduate pretty soon with a doctoral degree in Civil /
Environmental Engineering, and currently holding American MS degree in
CEE and Russian (MSU) 5-year degree (BS) in engineeering geology and
hydrodeology, I am going to go back to Russia A.S.A.P.
Therefore, I am wondering if you have a list of American / International
mining/environmental/geological/civil engineering companies(if any)
that have their reprecentative offices in Russia or the former USSR
states.
I believe in an honour of being Russian, and want to be helpful to my
motherland; however, I also desire to be really involved into some
engineering / geological work, whatever it might be.
Please, responce on my e-mail address:
alexb@nestor.engr.utk.edu
Thank you.
Alexander J. Bredikhin
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Sender: Robert King (BJKING@cris.com)
Subject: TECHICAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN RUSSIA FOR AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS
Dear Sirs:
While I was browsing the internet for job opportunities in Russia, I came
across your home page. I too, wish to see our countries unite. I have a
financee in Moscow and would love to be there with her as it is so
difficult to get her here !
She is very educated and is in the medical field. I am told it is very
difficult for her to work here, so I will go there.
I am a professional in the telecommunications field. Digital Microwave
radio, Fiber optics and LAN specialist. I work at the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida and have had the opportunity to work on the computers
for the Russian team sent here for the MIR project.
Do you know of any project that might benifit by utilizing my expertise in
russia?
Another possibility might be where my fiancee' might be able to work in
our country.
Sincerely yours
Robert King
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Sender: Lisa Sinclair-Smith (gsvn@igc.apc.org)
Subject: (no subject)
Greetings,
The other day, I posted a question to your list concerning my interest
in opening an office concerning my Russian adoption facilitation service
business here in the US in a "Russian friendly city", and I am amazed at
the quantity of responses I got. I didn't expect such a reponse!
I got to thinking about it, and wonder if you would be willing to
somehow put a link on your site to that of the Internet International
Photolisting Service at:
http://www.adoption.com
Lots of Russian kids photos and profiles are listed on this site. They
are all available for international adoption. Many of the photos of our
kids, at Americans for International Aid and Adoption (AIAA) are on this
site, at least 75+ photos, and I'd like them to gain wider exposure.
So far, we've gotten about 10 kids adopted via this great site, listed
above.
Please let me know if you'd be willing to link to it. I typed in your
search engine the word adoption, but nothing came up. Perhaps you
should think of it as a new category. 3000+ families a year are
adopting from Russia.
Thanks.
Your site at Friends and Partners is great.
Best wishes,
Lisa Smith
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Sender: alexey (alexey@solar.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: Modern Russian poetry page extended
I recently added lots of new stuff to my homepage
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~alexey/home.htm
which is devoted to the modern Russian literature.
Now you can find there almost every modern poet from one of three biggest
Russian cities. Though the collection wants a system yet, I flatter
myself that already it is the best one compiled by a native speaker in the
Internet. If you can show me a better selection beyond Friends & Partners,
you are welcome to contact me; also contact me if you need any poetry not
yet in my collection, I will add that.
Alexey Vernitskii
)Sender: WEARBOOTS@aol.com
)Subject: requests
)
)
)Hello friends,
)
)I have heard alot about Dmitri Volkogonov's three biographies on Stalin,
)Trotsky, and Lenin. I am interested in obtaining the biography on Stalin,
)and I have been told it is out of print. Can anyone tell me wher I could
)possibly find a copy?
)
)I am also interested in reading material on Nickolai Bukharin. Can
)anyone direct me toward a biography?
)
)Also, I have seen the HBO movie "Stalin," but have not been able to find
)a location from where to purchase it. Can anyone suggest a location?
)
)If anyone can help me with any or all of those requests, please send
)your messages to me. Thank you.
)
)Emily Dinnen
)wearboots@aol.com
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Sender: Sushma Palmer (SPalmer.CECHE.DC@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: NIS Health Promotion Bulletin
The Central European Center for Health and the Environment (CECHE) is
preparing to publish the next issue of the NIS Health Promotion Bulletin,
which contains short blurbs on current project activities in the NIS that
are striving to improve the health of the population through behavior
changes and public education. The publication is sent quarterly via email
and covers a wide range of health promotion topics, including: nutrition,
substance abuse, environmental health, maternal and child health, vulnerable
groups, and others.
We are currently soliciting contributions for the bulletin (by email, fax or
hard copy) and would like to include any information on activities that
would fit in with the objectives of the publication. This may include
information on upcoming events, new projects, available publications,
research, etc. Please distribute this solicitation to any other relevant
contacts.
The deadline for contributions for the Summer 96 issue is Monday, August 12.
This issue will be distributed the first week of September. If you are
based in the US, please feel free to send hard copies and faxes to my
attention at our DC office:
CECHE
Suite 110
3333 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: (202)965-5990
Fax: (202)965-5996
Thank you in advance,
Lisa Coll
Program Officer
CECHE
Pokrovka 22, Bldg 1, Room 8
Moscow 101000
Phone/Fax: (095)917-5889
Phone: (095)916-3229
Email: ceche@glas.apc.org
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Sender: mark mccarthy (mmccarth@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
Subject: Survey: Russian Related Careers
Dear Friends and Partners,
As a recent graduate from a Russian M.A. program at the University of
Iowa, I thought it would be valuable and helpful to collect information
concerning possible career choices related to Russian language and culture
in order to provide as many career options as possible for current and
future students of Russian. I am interested in obtaining information on
careers in any and every field from academics to business to translation
to non-profit organizations and beyond. If you have a background related
to Russian and would like to contribute your experience, please answer
the questions below. Thank you, and I hope to hear from you. Lisa
Drahozal
1. What is your educational background?
2. How did you obtain your job? Can you offer any tips for someone who
would like a career similar to yours?
3. Describe your job: what do you do? do you travel and if so, how
often? do you use the Russian language on the job? what is your
approximate salary range? (optional).
4. What do you like most and least about your job?
5. Any other tips? comments?
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Sender: Russian Info&Bus Ctr (rusric@erols.com)
Subject: Russian Regional Explorer CD-ROM
Russian Info & Business Center
P.O.Box 15343, Washington DC 20003
Ph: (202) 546-2103, Fax: (202) 546-3275
E-mail: rusric@erols.com
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The Russian Information & Business Center is pleased to announce the
release of a new computer atlas and mapping system "Russian Regional
Explorer on CD-ROM. This system is in fact an ultimate research, studying
and marketing computer toll on the modern Russia. The database incorporate
into this atlas includes statistical, geographic, political, business,
economic and environmental information as well as high resolution color
computer maps of all 89 administrative areas of Russia.
The RRE atlas is user-friendly and you can move easily through the nearly
500 MB of information with a mouse by clicking on different icons to access
the maps and information you need. The unique computer system allows you to
zoom down from a map of Russia to the economic region or to the specific
republic, kray or oblast which interests you. From there you can click on
the information icon and receive data on that administrative area.
The maps and data in the Russian Regional Explorer are unique and
up-to-date. Browsing through the atlas you can easily find all information
needed for research purposes or making business or/and investment decisions.
Once you have found the data you need it is easy to print a copy. This is
even possible for all maps, tables descriptions, etc. You can make
high-quality color maps of not only Russia as a whole, but also each
specific economic region or individual republics, krays and oblasts complete
with rayon (county) boundaries. Our atlas is a great tools for producing
business reports, research papers, presentations on Russia and more.
If your organization in interested in doing business or is involved with a
development program in Russia the Russian Regional Explorer is a must have.
It will not only save your company time and money but also make your
research or work on Russia related project a real fun.
Please use the enclosed form to order our Russian Regional Explorer. Make
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Do not wait, start to explore Russian regions today!
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Sender: bboswell@aaas.org (BBOSWELL)
Subject: AAAS/DOE Travel Fellowship Program
DOE/AAAS TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH:
"Clinical and Dose Reconstruction Aspects of the Relationship between
Glandular Disease and Exposure to Radioactive Iodine"
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announce the 1997 DOE/AAAS Travel
Fellowship Program on Environment and Health. This program will award
travel grants to five young scientists from East Central Europe and the
countries of the former Soviet Union to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting,
13-18 February 1997, in Seattle, Washington, United States. Travel fellows
will present their research findings in a poster session at the Annual
Meeting and in other fora around the Seattle, Washington area.
ELIGIBILITY
The topic for the 1997 program is "Clinical and Dose Reconstruction Aspects
of the Relationship between Glandular Disease and Exposure to Radioactive
Iodine." Epidemiologists, clinicians, health physicists, and others who
currently conduct research on clinical or dose reconstruction aspects of
this problem are invited to apply.
Eligible applicants must have completed their university degree no earlier
than August 1987 (that is, studies preceding the candidat and doctoral
degrees). Applicants must be able to speak, read, and write English with a
moderate degree of fluency. They must also gain the permission of their
governments to travel.
APPLICATION AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES
Application materials must include: 1) a letter of intent by the applicant
that gives a brief summary of the applicant's research qualifications and
includes the applicant's name, affiliation, address, telephone, and email
address; 2) an abstract of the proposed poster session, not to exceed 350
words; 3) a curriculum vitae, not to exceed two pages; and 4) two letters
of support from professors or colleagues familiar with the applicant's
research.
Support letters should be submitted to AAAS by mail or fax, but the letter
of intent, abstract, and curriculum vitae can be submitted by email under
separate cover. Applications must be postmarked by 30 September 1996.
Late applications or applications that do not conform to the guidelines
given above will not be considered. Send materials to:
Ms. Mary Beth Boswell
AAAS
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 1.202.326.6427
Fax: 1.202.289.4958
bboswell@aaas.org
Applications will be reviewed by a panel of experts and winners announced
by 31 October 1996.
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Sender: William Raisner (RAISNER@USITA.GOV)
Subject: Computer Job in Uzbekistan
My apologies for any misaddressing. The following job announcement is
posted on behalf of Robin Sowell of Lee and Burgess Associates.
Responses should be addressed directly to Lee and Burgess
Associates at the telephone/ fax numbers (below). Replies to this email
message will NOT be forwarded.
Thanks for your cooperation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LEE & BURGESS ASSOCIATES EXECUTIVE SEARCH
POSITION SPECIFICATION
TITLE: Manager, Computer Operations
CLIENT: Newmont Gold Company (NGC)
LOCATION: Uzbekistan
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP
The Manager, Computer Operations will report directly to Site
Management and will have a dotted line reporting relationship to the
Director of Information Systems in Denver,Colorado. This individual will
have overall managment responsibility for a staff of 3 located at the mine
site.
POSITION CONCEPT
The Manager, Computer Operations (MCO) will manage the Systems
Support function including performance monitoring, budget monitoring,
ensuring software applications meet requirements, ensuring service, and
maintenance and capacity planning for LANs and WANs. The MCO will operate
computers, office machines, 2-way radios and instrumentation tools.
The MCO must comply with state and federal health and safety regulations,
company policies and procedures and the company's environmental compliance
policy. The MCO will perform other duties as directed and needed by the
company to ensure optimal safe operation.
SPECIFIC DUTIES:
1. Manage and supervise the System Support staff,
2. Establish and monitor the Systems Support budget and
understand NGC budget procedures
and, monitor expenditures as compared to budget estimates,
3 Evaluate performance and capacity requirements of software
applications; evaluate functionality
and cost of all software.,
4. Evaluate performance and capacity requirements of LANs and
WANs,
5. Ensure timely implementation of software, hardware and network
components.
6. Manage the System Support staff and provide direction; monitor,
evaluate and report personnel performance; recommend salaries and salary
increases. Perform personnel acquisition procedures and evaluate staff
training requirements. Use capacity planning tools and performance
monitoring tools,
7. Stay apprised of user's needs,
8. Perform financial justification procedures.
9. Write technical reports, correspond technically with developers.
10. Manage project resources; establish and monitor projects.
11. Read, comprehend, interpret and learn Information Systems literature,
technical data, Material Safety Data sheets, labels on products and warning
signs to prevent loss of personnel, property and process,
12. The MCO will hold and operate a 2-way radio and telephone with
sufficient voice and hearing to carry on conversations for the purpose of
communicating with upper management and peers; issuing directives and
providing feedback- ' operate a light vehicle and including a
pre-operational inspection, mounting and dismounting equipment, pushing and
pulling levers and knobs and turning steering wheels for the purpose of
access to various areas of the minesite, hear sufficiently to distinguish
various pitches of warning alarms; see sufficiently to operate tools,
machines and vehicles; wear personal protective equipment including hard
hat, steel toe shoes, safety glasses, respirators, rubber suits, earplugs,
gloves or any other equipment to perform duties safety,
CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum of five years experience in a software development and
support management position.
Leadership experience with a demonstrated track record of
success.
Hands on technical experience a must; a "doer"
Experience in Novel LAN environment.
Well developed interpersonal, communications and management skills at
a level that will provide
quality leadership for the local mine site staff.,
A high level of professionalism, ethics, confidence, and a commitment to
a team approach. Sets
personal ethical standards at a high level and interacts with others in a
manner that instills similar
values.
A demonstrated flexibility in adjusting to the changing goals and
objectives of an evolving, growing
work environment.
EDUCATION:
A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a directly related
field is preferred.
RESPOND TO:
Robin Sowell
Lee & Burgess Associates
Phone: (818) 296-2501
Fax: (818) 296-1780
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Sender: "Valerij I. Gerasimov" (valery@irga.vernet.lv)
Subject: Russian Public Information Center in Latvia
Dear Friends and Partners:
You are welcome to visit
RUSSIAN PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTER IN LATVIA (RPIC)
on URL: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/valery/russnews.html
===========================================================
What's new on the site:
We start a NEW HEADER "SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY"!
The first issue concerns to
Scientific and research Laboratory
"NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN OSCILLATING SYSTEMS",
Technical University of Riga.
and theyr unique technology that can be used in different areas:
Vibrodiagnostic Device, for example
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Vibrodiagnostic device is intended for:
- detection of fatique cracks in stringers, frames,
thermocompensators being closed by vehicle skin, brackets,
control rods, tank shells and jet engine bodies, in bodies of buses,
cars, waggons and other thin-walled constructions
- detection of defects in thin multilayer constructions of
composite materials, for example delimination, disbond etc.
- detection of destroyed rivets, internal corrosion of
pipes and other closed objects
- determination of turbogenerator and electric motor winding state
- determination of hardness reduction due to stress relaxation
in abutment joints of metal constructions or reduction of elasticity
moduls in glass-reinforced plastics, rubber articles and belts
=======================================================================
RPIC is a wide project dedicated to the Russian life in Latvia and to
relationships between parts of the Russian Diaspora in different countries.
We plan to establish Russian public and cultural organizations, "electronic"
exhibitions and libraries, and so on.
Project is supported by
The Center for International Networking Initiatives
The University of Tennessee
and
VERSIA Ltd.(One of the oldest Internet provider in Latvia)
All kinds of cooperation will be greatly appreciated.
Please address your ideas and/or critics to Mr. Valerij I. Gerasimov
(irga@irga.vernet.lv).
Best regards
Valerij I. Gerasimov,
Coordinator of project
Russian Public Information Center in Latvia
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Sender: Sonja Franeta (sfraneta@sfsu.edu)
Subject: gay film festival in Tomsk
Dear Friends,
An unprecedented film festival will take place in Tomsk,
Russia--the first ever gay, lesbian, sexual minority film festival in
Siberia. Dubbed by Tomsk activists "The Pink Flamingo Film Festival," it
will be held from Sept. 6th through 15th at the October Theater. The
festival has the endorsement of city officials and is taking place in
conjunction with other community activities, including AIDS education
seminars.
Until recently activism by sexual minorities in Russia has been
limited to major cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg. Living in extreme
isolation not only from the rest of the world but within their own
country, these Siberian activists are to be commended for their courage
and initiative in producing this important event. Astarta, the officially
registered gay and lesbian organization in Tomsk, is joined by activists
from San Francisco and other cities to make this event possible.
A tentative list of films to be programmed are: Changing Our
Minds: the Evelyn Hooker Story, The Celluloid Closet, The Incredible True
Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Deaf Heaven, I Am My Own Woman, Marble
Ass, Paris Is Burning.
International support for this event is crucial. Few U.S. funders
are willing to support projects in Siberia. Although we have received
some funding, we are seeking emergency contributions of any amount. With
only weeks to go, please send us your contribution to gay pride in
Siberia today.
* $350 will rent a film
* $100 will rent the October Theater for one screening
* $50 will provide translation for one film
* $20 will pay for 5 faxes between Tomsk and San Francisco
We and the Siberians deeply appreciate your interest and financial
contributions.
Please send to : Pink Flamingo Film Festival
346 Ninth Street Media Arts Center
San Francisco, CA 94103
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by U.S. law and should
be made payable to "Frameline" and identified for The Pink Flamingo Film
Festival.
Our web page is; http://www.frameline.org/pfff/gay_siberia.html
Please write to me if you have any further questions.
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P.O. Box 70043
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(510)412-0604
sfraneta@sfsu.edu
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Sender: Remco Castner (castner@muenchen.org)
Subject: our next truck convoy to Belarus
Dear Belarusian-Listmembers,
please allow me to give you a short information
about our plannings regarding our next truck-
convoi to Gomel and other cities in Belarus.
Start: 10/25/1996 in Munich
Back : 11/03/1996
The way will be around 5000 km and will be:
- Munich, Nuernberg, Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder with border crossing to Poland.
about 1000 km. 4 hours sleep.
- further to Warsaw to the last gas-station in Biala Podlaska, 30 km to
the Belarus border. Getting Diesel for the total tour for all trucks.
border crossing to Brest. this day 600 km. 4 hours sleep
- further via Schitkovitschi to Gomel, about 400 km.
total time from start about 70 hours.
In Gomel customs procedure and clearance. 2 days later we will start to
Smorgon (about 600 km), the city, where we have our partnership. The
tour will go via Bobrujsk and Minsk, where we will meet some friends.
Our helping projects are in the city of Smorgon, northwest of Minsk.
We have four projects:
- bringing medicine and medical equipment to a children doctor in Smorgon
- bringing parcels with clean food to Chernobyl-families and to old persons
and families with many children
- bringing medicine, food, sweets and clothes to an internat in Smorgon
with about 200 children between 3 and 16.
- having a kind of sponsorship for 5 children who has problems with the
thyroid because of the radioactiv fallout from Chernobyl. For the
amount of DM 100.--/child they will have medical analysis and medicine
for the next 5 years.
The only way to be shure, that all our helping goods will really arrive
at our partners and to the needy and poor children and families is, to
bring it there by ourselvers. That is the main reason why we make this
convoi.
Moreover, we have found friends there, and we are looking forward to
meet them.
All the medicaments have to be bought and are very expensive.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP YOUR COUNTRY (NOT ONLY WITH WORDS BUT WITH
MEDICAMENTS) THIS IS A GOOD CHANCE TO DO. MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION AND
I WILL PERSONALLY GARANTEE, THAT YOUR MONEY WILL BE SPEND EXCLUSIVE
FOR MEDICAMENTS FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL AND NOT ONLY ONE DOLLAR WILL
BE SPEND FOR ADMINISTRATION.
If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me via email.
best regards
HILFE FUER DIE KINDER VON CHERNOBYL
Remco Castner
Pestalozzistr. 12
D-82140 Olching
Tel.: +49 08142 14843
email: castner@muenchen.org
WWW: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/castner/belarus.htm
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Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: UKRAINE FAQ Plus Presents: Ukrainian Weekly Preview August 4th,
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 now:
http://www.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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Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: UKRAINE FAQ Plus Presents: Ukrainian Weekly Special OLYMPIC
Greetings,
The latest OLYMPIC EDITION of the Ukrainian Weekly is now
available on the Ukraine FAQ Plus site! This is a complete
edition including pictures. 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 now:
http://www.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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