Digest for 96-11-22
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
01-22 November 96 Central Asia Monitor
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-22 November 96 Sender: firstum@earlham.edu
Subject: Russian teenagers seek English-language pen pals
02-22 November 96 Sender: "Paul E. Richardson" (71740.1473@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Is Russia Safe?
03-22 November 96 Sender: lana@interport.net (Lana)
Subject: Russian Link of the Day
04-22 November 96 Sender: Oleg A. Mazin (oleg@asbest.ru)
Subject: New ART site found
05-22 November 96 Sender: DPHIL@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Arizona Russian Abroad Programs for '97
06-22 November 96 Sender: emueller@bruderhof.com
Subject: books to Russia
07-22 November 96 Sender: "Paul E. Richardson" (71740.1473@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Is this really the first new map or not?
08-22 November 96 Sender: "Karen Hale" (kbhale@cpis.net)
Subject: Russian research project
09-22 November 96 Sender: UncleVania@aol.com
Subject: Russian-related web site
10-22 November 96 Sender: Mauricio Levitin (Mauricio_Levitin@bus.emory.edu)
Subject: markets in Uzbekistan
11-22 November 96 Sender: "Dr. Mike Davarpanah" (mdavarpanah@tehrannet.com)
Subject: TehranNET magazine
12-22 November 96 Sender: Jarrid Wong (jwong@scnc.lsd.k12.mi.us)
Subject: How to get koi8 to work?
13-22 November 96 Sender: DCULBERT@COMPUSMART.AB.CA
Subject: ESL PROGRAMS
14-22 November 96 Sender: "L.M.J. Agema" (agema@worldonline.nl)
Subject: info about baku
15-22 November 96 Sender: Massimo Milano (mmilano@skylink.it)
Subject: Information
16-22 November 96 Sender: mikes (mikes@mtco.com)
Subject: Just a Question..
17-22 November 96 Sender: ogranlun (ogranlun@online.no)
Subject: Russian Tourism
18-22 November 96 Sender: "Zlidar, Vera" (V.ZLIDAR@tfgi.com)
Subject: FW: INTERNET assistance
19-22 November 96 Sender: RJR@FED.ORNL.GOV
Subject: Seeking work for a friend in Russia
20-22 November 96 Sender: Greg Daku (circuit.works@dlcwest.com)
Subject: Locating technical information
21-22 November 96 Sender: ocic@storm.iasnet.com
Subject: Conference on Municipal GIS in Russia (CORRECT)!!!
22-22 November 96 Sender: tburola@alf.tel.hr (Thomas Burola)
Subject: Ukraine - Chernomor Neftegas
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Central Asia Monitor
"Central Asia Monitor (CAM) is a thirty-eight page, bi-monthly magazine
that aims to keep a diverse list of subscribers informed, in a timely and
thoughtful fashion, about developments in the newly independent states of
Central Asia."
Please see the News and Information Services Section from the Commercial
Services Page or directly at URL:
http://homepages.together.net/~chalidze//cam.htm
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: firstum@earlham.edu
Subject: Russian teenagers seek English-language pen pals
WANTED: English-language Pen-Pals for Russian teenagers
All live in Elektrostal, Russia, a medium-sized industrial town in
the Moscow District. All are students at a private supplementary
school which offers good English courses. If you are interested
in writing to them, please contact me with your postal address
and I will send you one of the original letters from the list
below. I brought these letters back from my last visit to
Elektrostal earlier this year.
Here is the list of Russian young people wanting correspondents:
Jack (no last name given), boy 15; hobbies: coin collecting, computer
Victoria Pryanishnikova, teenage girl, sealed envelope, wants boy
correspondent
Dasha Bargriglova, teenage girl, sealed envelope, wants boy
correspondent
Julia Larionova, girl 15, likes playing piano and guitar, sports,
English
Mary, 15, sealed envelope
Svetlana Shubina, girl, sealed envelope, "I want to correspond with
boy or girl (about 15-18 years old) from USA"
Liuda Shirokova, sealed envelope, "I want to correspond with a girl
(She's 16)"
Thank you!
Johan Maurer, Friends United Meeting
101 Quaker Hill Drive
Richmond, Indiana
USA 47374
E-mail: FUMinfo@xc.org (or firstum@earlham.edu)
Phone: 1-317-962-7573
Fax: 1-317-966-1293
November 21, 1996
PS to Friends and Partners list: I circulated this list originally
on two Friends (Quaker) lists, but the expectation that the young
people have is not for a religious correspondence, just general-
interest and whatever develops.
** 02 **********************************************************************
Sender: "Paul E. Richardson" (71740.1473@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Is Russia Safe?
PLEASE READ AND PASS ALONG TO
INTERESTED AND ASSOCIATED PERSONS
RUSSIAN LIFE MAGAZINE WILL, IN ITS JANUARY 1997 ISSUE,
FEATURE AN EXTENSIVE COVER STORY ENTITLED "IS RUSSIA SAFE?"
THE STORY WILL COVER ALL ASPECTS OF TRAVEL AND BUSINESS IN RUSSIA,
INCLUDING AIR TRAVEL, BUSINESS AND THE MAFIA, TRAIN TRAVEL, CHOOSING
THE RIGHT PARTNER, AIDS, ETC.
WE WELCOME YOUR INPUT, IN THE FORM OF ANECDOTES, HORROR STORIES,
TRAVEL TIPS, SAFETY TIPS, ETC. ALL INPUT WILL BE KEPT STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL, UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED UPON MUTUALLY BY RUSSIAN
LIFE AND THE CONTRIBUTOR.
PLEASE KEEP INITIAL MESSAGES, SUMMARIES AND TIPS TO 500 WORDS OR LESS.
THANK YOU.
ADDRESS ALL MESSAGES TO:
PAUL RICHARDSON
PUBLISHER
RUSSIAN LIFE
71740.1473@compuserve.com
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Sender: lana@interport.net (Lana)
Subject: Russian Link of the Day
Introducing Russian Link of the Day: An archive of Web links representing
items (news, features, images, sounds, trivia, etc.) of interest to the
Russian/Russophile/Russologist community on the Internet-- day by day! A
new link is added (almost) daily. For those who don't have the time to
browse the Net daily -- we'll do it for you.
http://www.users.interport.net/~lana/link/
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Sender: Oleg A. Mazin (oleg@asbest.ru)
Subject: New ART site found (fwd)
How do you do! Forgive for anxiety.
I'm to inform to you, that homepage about
Russian artist of style avantgarde Sergey Parfenuk is created.
On it the information on exhibitions on Ural region is submitted,
work are exhibited. Here in after the page will be filled up with
new artwork, information about artists Ural region and products
from a stone and tree. Pictures sale service.
Look at http://www.tv-galaxy.ru
P.S. English part our server now started at 1December 1996
If you not against, I shall add the your URL in my site.
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= With best regards, Oleg A. Mazin =
=TV Chanel "GALAXY" Reftinsky =
===== http://www.tv-galaxy.ru =====
==== E-mail: oleg@asbest.ru ====
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Sender: DPHIL@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Arizona Russian Abroad Programs for '97
Sender: Prof. Del Phillips
On-Line Information Available from dphil@ccit.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona announces its summer '97
language and internship program offerings. Option #2, Language
program at St. Petersburg State University, May 28-July 2 (cost
$2800). Option #3; Language program in Moscow, July 2-August
3 (cost $3270). Option #4 combines language programs I and II,
May 28-August 3 (cost $4315). Option #5, Internship Program in
Moscow, May 30-August 3 (cost $4650). All programs include
Univ of AZ credit and air fare from New York. Contact Prof. Del
Phillips, 340 Mod Langs, Univ of AZ, Tucson, AZ 85721; phone:
520-621-7344; e-mail: dphil@ccit.arizona.edu.
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Sender: emueller@bruderhof.com
Subject: books to Russia
Dear friends and partners,
Anybody going to travel to Moscow and/or Ryazan from the US within the
next two or three months? I am trying to send some books from our
publishing house to friends in these cities, but the postal service is
expensive and unreliable. Let me know if you have some room in your
suitcases and some time to deliver them. My friends and I would be
most grateful.
Have a nice day everybody
Eckhard
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Eckhard Mueller
The Plough Publishing House
Spring Valley Bruderhof
Farmington, PA 15437, USA
Tel. 412-329-1100
Fax 412-329-0914
Website: http://www.bruderhof.org
E-mail: EMueller@bruderhof.com
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Sender: "Paul E. Richardson" (71740.1473@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Is this really the first new map or not?
A fellow F&P listserv reader questioned if our new Bilingual Wall Map of Russia
and the Republics is truly the first new map of the region.
It is not. And that is not the statement we made. What we said was that: "This
is the first, all-new Western map of Russia since it became a country again in
1991."
The emphasis we stress is on "all-new". This map did not exist prior to 1991. It
is not a map re-drawn from an existing regional or country base map. It was
created totally fresh from computerized vector data and on the ground research.
In actuality, the "all-new" aspect we hoped to point up most was the map's
singular reliance on GIS mapping. To the best of our knowledge -- and our map
makers have researched this -- there has never been a commercially-produced wall
map of any country that was done using a GIS system like this map, start to
finish. GIS is just starting to be used in atlases and maps, but never has it
been used to the exclusion of other data and desktop publishing systems. This
allowed us to keep the data in the "purest" form before outputting direct to
film and printing...
This is not to say there are no mistakes on the map (indeed, we have already
found a couple typos that slipped by our four layers of proofreaders). But that
is what second editions are for. And what could make the first edition a
collector's edition.
In any event, we too are lovers of NatGeo maps and were well-aware of their 1993
map, which the reader discusses. Worth noting is that their map was not in
Russian on one side and English on the other -- a feature we have not seen on
any other map of Russia. And our 3 foot by 4 foot size is considerably larger
than theirs was, I believe, tho I am operating from a fading memory on that
assertion.
Best regards,
Paul Richardson
Publisher
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Sender: "Karen Hale" (kbhale@cpis.net)
Subject: Russian research project
I have a son in the 5th grade, David age 10. He is doing a report on
Russia and I thought it would help him if he could actually communicate
with someone in Russia by Email.
Can you help me locate someone that wouldn't mind emailing a 10 year old.
Or tell me were to look.
Thank you in advance.
Karen & David Hale
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Sender: UncleVania@aol.com
Subject: Russian-related web site
Thought perhaps you would like to see what I have been doing with
Russian-American history-oriented material. My URL is:
http://members.aol.com/unclevania/mars.html
Thanks!!!
Jon Mars
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Sender: Mauricio Levitin (Mauricio_Levitin@bus.emory.edu)
Subject: markets in Uzbekistan
I am trying to find information on the market for yogurt in
Uzbekistan. If you could provide me with some information,
please contact me as soon as possible.
Thank you very much,
Mauricio Levitin
mauricio_levitin@bus.emory.edu
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Sender: " Dr. Mike Davarpanah" (mdavarpanah@tehrannet.com)
Subject: TehranNET magazine
Hi and salAm
The new issue of TehranNET magazine is on line now.
You may visit it at:
http://www.TehranNET.com
This is a magazine in Persian.
We also appreciate it, if you can send us some articles for publication.
Thanks
Nooshin
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Sender: Jarrid Wong (jwong@scnc.lsd.k12.mi.us)
Subject: How to get koi8 to work?
Hello,
I am a Russian teacher who is relatively new to the WEB. I would like
to begin downloading and uploading Russian documents. How do I get
the koi8 font to work on my mac?
Nick Toodzio
Toodzio@aol.com
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Sender: DCULBERT@COMPUSMART.AB.CA
Subject: ESL PROGRAMS
PLEASE SEND ME ANY INFORMATION YOU HAVE ON EXCHANGE OR ESL PROGRAMS IN THE
FORMER USSR.
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Sender: "L.M.J. Agema" (agema@worldonline.nl)
Subject: info about baku
Next week I might go to Baku, can you please tell me the wheater forecast
for the next two weeks, so I can bring whatever I need.
Can you also tell me what things there are to do and if it is safe on the
streets.
Best regards,
Lucas Agema
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Sender: Massimo Milano (mmilano@skylink.it)
Subject: Information
Hello. I would like to know if there is an Internet provider in
Siberia, better in Yacuz. I've searched for it but I haven't found
anything interesting. Thanks in advance for your help.
Massimo
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Sender: mikes (mikes@mtco.com)
Subject: Just a Question..
I am curious, and maybe you can help me with this. Is there any software
that I can write a document in English and have it translated into
Russian? I have browsed some of your site, but am unsure of what the
different applications do.
It would also be helpful if the reverse was possible.
Thank you for your time.
Mike
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Sender: ogranlun (ogranlun@online.no)
Subject: Russian Tourism
Hello!
I need help!
I am writing a subject called "Russian Tourism Yesterday and Today- What
has Changed?"
Can you help me??
Please write to: Kristin Bruheim, Lillebergsvingen 3, 0664 Oslo, Norway
or to the e-mail adress (ogranlun a online.no) I'll be grateful.
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Sender: "Zlidar, Vera" (V.ZLIDAR@tfgi.com)
Subject: FW: INTERNET assistance
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)From: Ellina Miroshnikova (ellina@wv.vladikavkaz.su)
Sent: Friday, November 15, 1996 10:24 AM
To: david%wvb.gomel.by@brc.minsk.by; david@wvrussia.msk.su
Hello!
There is one more refugee child worth helping. Jukka & Lilian also agreed
to ask you if it is possible to put this case into INTERNET or wherever else
to find any helpers. I'll wrrite to you a short description & send a picture
by fax.
This boy, BAYSANGUROV ALAN, was born in 1990 in Dushanbe. Now his family
are refugees in Vladikavkaz living in the hostel (address:
RNO-Alania Vladikavkaz
ul.Galkovakogo 237, room 136)
In December 1994 he was burnt with fire in the kitchen (somehow the fire
reached his clothes, nobody was nearby & he was terribly burnt (you can
see in the picture)). The scald was of the 4th Degree covering 50% of the boy,
including face, neck, body (circularly) & both shoulders. He was treated
in the Scald Centre in Moscow. All the bandages were made with narcosis. He
also had complex infusion therapy, heart-vessel medicines & antibacterial
therapy.
After forming of the granual tissues he had 5 autodermoplastic
operations. But there appeared no opportunity for complete healing.
Is it possible to help him in any way? Great thanks in advance.
Greetings to everybody,
Bye, Ellina
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Sender: RJR@FED.ORNL.GOV
Subject: Seeking work for a friend in Russia
I am sending this in behalf of a friend in Obninsk, Russia. Replies
can be made directly to him. R. J. Raridon
Sender: Latynov@storm.iasnet.com
My name is Victor Latynov. I am looking for job opportunities as a
translator and interpreter for a foreign firm in Russia.
I have experience in:
- translating scientific and technical and business articles from Russian
into English,.
- interpreting on educational workshops.
My educational background is:
Moscow State University, Geographical Department. Graduated in 1983.
Currently I am a post-graduate student of the Kaluga Institute of Sociology.
Languages: Fluent in English.
Basic knowledge of Spanish and Polish.
I also have good connections in business circles in Moscow
and some regions of Central Russia."
References are available upon request.
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Sender: Greg Daku (circuit.works@dlcwest.com)
Subject: Locating technical information
Nice web site.
We are a electronic service company specializing in commercial and industrial
equipment service.
One of our customers uses infrared camera technology. He brought in a
Russian-made camera system.
I have had no sucess trying to locate information about the manufacturer or
translation information on Russian electronic components. The importer who sold
the unit is no longer in business.
The name on the equipment is something like "perovedekon" (this is the best I
could translate with a transl. table).
Do you have any recommendations where I could go for more info?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you,
Greg
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Sender: ocic@storm.iasnet.com
Subject: Conference on Municipal GIS in Russia (CORRECTION)!!!
I am very sorry, but in previous message E-mail don't RIGHT!!!
Oleg Tikhonov
____________________________________________________________________
About Conference
4th Annual Conference on
Municipal GeoInformation Systems in Russia
Obninsk, January 27 -31, 1997
About 4th Annual Conference on Municipal GeoInformation Systems in
Russia
City of Obninsk and Obninsk City Information Center (OCIC) with the
participation of the GIS-Association of Russia are holding the
traditional annual Russian Conference "Municipal Geoinformation
Systems" on January 27 -31, 1997. Leading developers of geoinformation
systems, suppliers of the Russian and foreign GIS-technologies,
federal officers, representatives of more than 100 Russian cities
(mayors, vice-mayors, chairmen of the property management committees,
chief architects, chairmen of the land resources and land use committees,
directors of information departments, etc.). The main scope of
reports will cover economic, legal and organization problems of GIS-
technologies use, land cadaster, real estate registers,
information support of the work with the land plots and related real
estate, agreements registration, real estate activity, investments
information support.
The new GIS-technologies will be presented at the exhibition.
Examples of the municipal problems solutions realized in
various Russian cities (Taganrog, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Obninsk,
Rostov-upon-Don, Kostroma, St. Petersburg...) will be presented at the
exhibition.
This conference is the fourth, and the experience of the
previous ones shows that all participants achieve good results.
The conference is mainly dedicated to:
- front-end users, managers and specialists in the information field
on city, town and etc;
- business people in software, distribution and consultation firms,
and other institutions which insure the base compter software and
equipment and also the creation of information systems for state and
public administration,
- academics and students of universities oriented towards state and
public administration and use of information technologies in this
application area.
We are pleased to invite you and the specialists of your
organization to participate in the conference.
Important information
Applications for participation (including names of the
participants, the company they represent, postal and e-mail
addresses, phone, fax, form of participation, form of payment) as well
as the reports are to be submitted before December 15, 1996. Form of
participation:
- listener only;
- speaker;
- computer and audiovisual presentation;
- exhibitors.
Reports in the form of ASCII or WinWord file are accepted.
Reports should be presented in the following way: Name, Company,
City, Abstract, Contacts, Address. The conference will be held in
Russian and English, simultaneous translation will be provided, if
necessary
Conference location:
Obninsk City Information Center
1 Preobrazheniya Sq. Office 402, Obninsk, Kaluga Region,
249020, Russia
How to get to the conference:
By train: Moscow Kiev Train Station, Trains to Kaluga or
Maloyaroslavets (Station of Obninskoye)
By car: Moscow - Kiev Highway (102nd kilometer)
Phone: 7 08439 273 94, 7 08439 224 91 Natalia Dolganova, Oleg Tikhonov
Fax: 7 08439 273 94 or 7 095 255 2318 (for OCIC)
E-mail: ocic@storm.iasnet.com
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Sender: tburola@alf.tel.hr (Thomas Burola)
Subject: Ukraine - Chernomor Neftegas
Recently I was in the Ukraine setting up a PIU for the State Property Fund
under a WB Loan. Let just clip it from my resume for you
World Bank, Kiev, Ukraine, Post Privatization Support , October 01, 1996 to
November 15, 1996. SENIOR ADVISOR to the Ukraine State Property Fund,
Ukrainian Center for Post-Privatization Support, and TACIS under a $10M
Technical Assistance component to develop and install a Project
Implementation Unit (PIU) for the management of a $310 M World Bank loan.
Responsibilities include formal training of staff on aspects of procurement
of consulting services under IBRD guidelines, including preparation of terms
of reference (TOR), shortlists of consulting forms, bidding requests, bid
evluation procedures, preparation and negotiation of contracts, supervision
of consultants, monitoring consultant preformance, maintaining adequate
records and communicating with Bank, both for clearance and approvels and
for reporting purposes.
That explains it better? Can anyone help me with information on the Tosell
Production contract in the Crimea? Its was signed between a US company by
name of Huffco and Neftegas?
Thomas Burola
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