Digest for 96-12-16
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-16 December 96 Jill Dybka's Anna Akhmatova Page
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-16 December 96 Sender: MISHA KRIVINIOUK (mvk5@aber.ac.uk)
Subject: looking for contact with Russian people in the UK
02-16 December 96 Sender: Chris Kedzie (kedzie@glas.apc.org)
Subject: Books for Children
03-16 December 96 Sender: "Paul E. Richardson" (71740.1473@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: RusLife Online
04-16 December 96 Sender: "Don R." (odat@ccnet.com)
Subject: How to use Cyrillic on a web site
05-16 December 96 Sender: Kapellmeister (kap@physik.uni-ulm.de)
Subject: INFO-RUSS: looking for Tatar connection in New York
(x-post INFO-RUSS)
06-16 December 96 Sender: "Straight, Earl" (STRAIGHTE@mhs3.MHS.MCS.K12.WV.US)
Subject: Spring Break Trip to Russia
07-16 December 96 Sender: Eco (eco@interaccess.com
Subject: Maxwell St. (fwd)
08-16 December 96 Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Soloviev)
Subject: Just to remind about best phone rates to ex-USSR
09-16 December 96 Sender: Brad Moore (PRCBAM@langate.gsu.edu)
Subject: Seeking economic & Public admin specialists w/ advanced
10-16 December 96 Sender: emueller@bruderhof.com
Subject: "I TELL YOU A MYSTERY"
11-16 December 96 Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Ukraine Land Privatization Project
12-16 December 96 Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: CEEMAN-L Internet List: An Invitation
13-16 December 96 Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: CEP On-Line Partners Program
14-16 December 96 Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Search for Russian Political Web Sites
15-16 December 96 Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Ukraine - Program Administrator
16-16 December 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukraine FAQ Plus: Ukrainian Weekly Preview December 8th now
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Jill Dybka, a UT Knoxville graduate student in information sciences, has
created an impressive Internet resource on the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
"Anna Andreevna Akhmatova used poetry to give voice to the struggles and
deepest yearnings of the Russian people, for whom she remains the
greatest of literary heroines. She has lately come to symbolize for the
world even beyond Russia the power of art to survive and transcend the
terrors of our century." -- Judith Hemschemeyer, A Stranger to Heaven
and Earth
Please see Jill's page at the Poetry and Proverbs section from the Art/Music/
Literature page or directly at URL:
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~jtdybka/akh.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: MISHA KRIVINIOUK (mvk5@aber.ac.uk)
Subject: looking for contact with Russian people in the UK
Hi there, my name is Misha, I'm Russian from Yekaterinburg, 26 y/o. I
have lived in the UK since 1992 and would like to meet/correspond with
Russians, that live here too!
please e-mail me on mvk5@aber.ac.uk
or visit my homepage on http://www.aber.ac.uk/~mvk5/
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Sender: Chris Kedzie (kedzie@glas.apc.org)
Subject: Books for Children
Hey Friends and Family,
Send an e-mail and help a sick child receive a gift this year.
______________________________ Forward Header_____________________________
Houghton Mifflin Publishing Corporation will donate one book to a
children's hospital for every 25 e-mails they receive. Please e-mail them
at:
share@hmco.com.
I hope you can spare the seconds . . . and let your friends and
colleagues know. So far Houghton Mifflin has only received 3,400 messages.
Last year they reached 23,000.
Thanks.
_____________________________________________________
Christopher R. Kedzie tel: (095)935-7051
Program Officer fax: (095)935-7052
Ford Foundation email: kedzie@fordfound.org
Moscow Office, Tversyaka 16/2, Moscow 103009, Russia
_____________________________________________________
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Sender: "Paul E. Richardson" (71740.1473@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: RusLife Online
Join Russian Life OnLine!
An irregular electronic journal of Russian culture, history, business and travel
Now open!
RusLife OnLine is the FREE, electronic mailing list published by the publishers
of Russian Life magazine.
RusLife is an electronic mailing list of news briefs, features, factoids,
travel and business tips and more, all of interest to individuals and
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CONTENTS:
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of RusLife.
The second is just days away!
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Subscribing to RusLife is easy. Simply compose and email message from the email
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In the body of the message, you should enter only the following message:
subscribe ruslife YOUR NAME
That's it!
We hope you'll join us!
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Sender: "Don R." (odat@ccnet.com)
Subject: How to use Cyrillic on a web site
I maintain a web site for the Al-Anon/Alateen program of recovery for the
friends and families of alcoholics. It is currently available in 6 languages.
I very much wish to make it available in Russian, also.
Is there anyone on Friends & Partners who is able and willing to provide me
with instructions on how to have Russian language text appear in a web site?
Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.
A very grateful member of the worldwide fellowship of Al-Anon.
Don R.
odat@ccnet.com
If your life has been affected by someone else's drinking, Al-Anon can help.
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~Al-Anon/
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Sender: Kapellmeister (kap@physik.uni-ulm.de)
Subject: INFO-RUSS: looking for Tatar connection in New York
(x-post INFO-RUSS)
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This is INFO-RUSS broadcast (1200+ subscribers). Home page, information,
and archives: http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/inforuss.html
Presently, INFO-RUSS is in semi-dormant mode until Febr.'97.
INFO-RUSS assumes no responsibility for the information
supplied by its users or/and for their views.
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Dear Folks,
This is sort of urgent; a friend of mine asked for it. A family from
Moscow (two ladies and a kid) arriving in two weeks in New York, US, as new
emigres (they won the Green card lottery), are looking for any connection
to Tatar community in NY or simply any Tatar family in the area. They
would appreciate any information.
Please reply directly to the address (kap@physik.uni-ulm.de.
Best Wishes,
A. Kapellmeister
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Sender: "Straight, Earl" (STRAIGHTE@mhs3.MHS.MCS.K12.WV.US)
Subject: Spring Break Trip to Russia
Come experience the social, educational, and cultural world of the Russian
people. Several teachers at Morgantown High School in Morgantown, West
Virginia have put together a trip to Russia for March 20-29.
The program will begin in Moscow where the group will do the
traditional sightseeing tours (Red Square, Kremlin, Lenin's Tomb, and
much more) as well as spend two days at a local school. There is also
a side trip to Sergiev Posad. The group will continue the tour with
an overnight train to St. Petersburg. Sightseeing in St. Petersburg
will include the Hermitage, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Issac's
Cathedral, battleship Aurora, and much more. There will also be
another day trip to Petrovorets.
The cost of the trip is only $1,895. This includes everything but
your passport. Air transportation will be with USAir and Lufthansa.
Departure will be on March 20 from Pittsburgh with a direct flight to
Frankfort and then on to Moscow.
Anyone wanting additional information should contact Earl
Straight or Dr. Jacob Seitz at Morgantown High School (304) 291-9260.
Reservations need to be in by the second week of January.
Earl N. Straight, Jr.
Journalism Department Chairperson
Morgantown High School
109 Wilson Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26505
(304) 291-9260 (school)
(3040 296-3142 (home)
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Sender: Eco (eco@interaccess.com
Subject: Maxwell St. (fwd)
Hi Friends in Russia. Did you know that Russian/Jewish immigrants played an
important part in creating Rock and Roll at Maxwell Street in Chicago.
When my grandparents migrated to the U.S from Russia at the turn of the
centrury, they came to Maxwell Street in Chicago -- a big market area. We
are trying to save parts of the old Maxwell Street area as a historic
preservation district to honor Russian, Jewish, African-American, and
Hispanic immigrants since the area was an important port-of-entry for all
three groups. We are getting support for this from Hillel houses, American
Jewish Archive, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Delta Blues
Museum, and many other places all over the world.
We invite you to visit our web site
(http://www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html to learn about us.
We would appreciate it if you would send a letter of concern to Chancellor
Broski and send us a copy (mar@interaccess.com. Also, send copies of the
message below to your friends and colleagues. Messages from Russia will have
big impact. Thanks.
- Professor Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University
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Please help prevent a world famous Chicago Russian/Jewish and Blues landmark
district from being turned into dust. Maxwell Street was an important
welcome mat during the Great Migration from the Southern U.S.. Electrified
Blues got created there which later turned into Rock and Roll.
Send a message of concern saying you want a Maxwell Street Historic
Preservation District incorporated into The University of Illinois's plans
for commercial redevelopment of the Maxwell Street area.
SEND TO: Chancellor David Broski, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S.
Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607 (David.C.Broski@uic.edu (Phone: 312-413-3350;
Fax: 312-413-3393)
For more information see (http://www.openair.org/maxwell/preserve.html.
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Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Soloviev)
Subject: Just to remind about best phone rates to ex-USSR
Dear Friends & Partners,
I want to inform you that CYBERLINK DECREASED THE RATES on December 01.
You know CYBERLINK -- the American telecommunications company with the
lowest international calling FLAT (24 hours a day!) rates.
Now: Russia - $.68 / min;
Ukraine - $.65 / min;
Belarus - $.74 / min;
Azerbaijan - $.59 / min;
Lithuania - $.62 / min;
Latvia - $.49 / min;
Estonia - $.46 / min;
...
Australia - $.28 / min;
Denmark - $.27 / min;
France - $.33 / min;
Hungary - $.42 / min;
Poland - $.51 / min;
Romania - $.65 / min;
Singapore - $.32 / min;
Sweeden - $.22 / min...
...
ADVANTAGES: ^^^^^^^^^^^ Super-low rates apply 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, billing increments is in 6 seconds instead of whole minutes. Best of
all, there are NO HIDDEN CHARGES: no access fees, per-call fees, monthly
fees, sign-up fees, peak-period surcharges, etc.
Calling Card is the major advantage of Cyberlink. The same rates and
absolutely no surcharges.
Note: CYBERLINK is an add-on service and you DO NOT CHANGE your current
long-distance company. Everything will remain the same; you will only need
to follow a special procedure to make your international calls (dial 800
#).
Please inquire mvs3@po.cwru.edu or 216 231-2857.
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Sender: Brad Moore (PRCBAM@langate.gsu.edu)
Subject: Seeking economic & Public admin specialists w/ advanced
Economic and Public Administration Specialists
Georgia State University's School of Policy Studies is seeking motivated
candidates for positions in its International Program Division. Currently,
we are identifying professionals at several levels who can support the
School's various technical assistance and training programs based in Russia
and the NIS. These are consultancy positions.
Ideal candidates will have strong experience in the areas of public
finance, budget and tax policy, government debt management and
macroeconomics. Prior overseas work experience is desirable. The ability
to work under deadline in challenging conditions is a must.
Experience Requirements:
Project Associates: Candidates will possess a graduate degree in Economics
or Public Administration, and superior quantitative analytical ability.
Qualified candidates will have at least 5 years practical experience
working for a public sector or private sector organization in the areas of
economic forecasting, fiscal policy analysis, or government debt
management, and work experience in the NIS. Cadidates who are ABD will have
worked 3 years after terminating their studies, and have work experience in
the NIS. Some positions will require Russian language fluency.
Senior Project Associate: Ph.D. Economics or Public Administration.
Candidates will have specialized knowledge of fiscal policy,
macroeconomics, government treasury management or budgetary policy and
practices. Ideal candidates will have several years work experience in
government and experience advising and training foreign government finance
officials. Candidates must demonstrate a strong research background,
communications skills and superior quantitative analysis capabilities in
economics or public finance. Russian language ability is a plus.
All positions require travel to the NIS for periods of two weeks or longer.
Several positions will require long-term assignment in Russia for of one or
more years.
Qualified candidates should submit their resume with salary history to:
Brad Moore
Program Manager
International Programs
Georgia State University School of Policy Studies
35 Broad Street, Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30303
fax (404) 651-3996
E-mail PRCBAM@LANGATE.GSU.EDU
Please state clearly language proficiency
Thank you
Brad Moore
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Sender: emueller@bruderhof.com
Subject: "I TELL YOU A MYSTERY"
Dear Friends,
Still looking for a christmas present for someone?
See the annoucement below about a new book from our publishing house
which came off the press last week! I am sure this book could mean a
lot to you and your friends.
Eckhard
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wish a friend had put this beautiful book in my hands when my husband died.
Madeleine L'Engle
I TELL YOU A MYSTERY
Life, Death, and Eternity
by J. Christoph Arnold
Foreword by Madeleine L'Engle
Drawing on stories of people he has known and counseled as pastor,
relative, or friend, Arnold shows how suffering can be given meaning,
and despair overcome. He offers the assurance that even today, in our
culture of isolation and death, there is such a thing as hope.
J . I. Packer, Regent College
Arnold's book shares golden wisdom
on facing death in faith, hope, and
love. The true meaning of death with
dignity is here writ large.
Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. Archdiocese of New York
Engaging and challenging. I found
myself saying "yes" chapter after
chapter. A witness to the power of
faith.
Jonathan Kozol, author, Amazing Grace
I Tell You A Mystery is a beautiful book of surpassing dignity and
tenderness. It speaks to the most universal of all fears and does so
through wise and gentle narrative. I hope it will be widely read, not
only by those who call themselves religious. Although written with
great simplicity of style, it is nonetheless a work of moral mystery
and elegance...a small treasure, unpretentious and transcendent.
Dr. Paul Brand, M.D. author, Pain: the Gift Nobody Wants
I have read many books about dying, but I Tell You A Mystery is now the
one that
I would give to a person approaching death or to someone facing bereavement.
)From start to finish it shines with hope! I want a copy beside my bed when my
time comes.
Price $12.00 (NY and CT residents please add sales tax.) plus $ 3.00
shipping and handling
176pp, softback, 5.5"x 8.5", ISBN 0-87486-083-0, 74 photographs
To order, click reply to this message. We accept Visa or MasterCard.
Eckhard Mueller Tel. (412) 329-1100
The Plough Publishing House Fax (412) 329-0914
Spring Valley Bruderhof E-mail: EMueller@bruderhof.com
Farmington, PA 15437, USA Website: http://www.bruderhof.org
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Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Ukraine Land Privatization Project
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Deputy Project Manager
Ukraine Land Privatisation Project
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The 7 December issue of The Economist presented the attached
announcement, which may be of interest to some members of the
list. Please forward to interested/qualified colleagues. For more
information, please contact the IFC representative identified at
the end of the announcement. I am presenting the announcement as
it appeared in The Economist.
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The Know How Fund (KNF), Britain's programme of bilateral
technical assistance to the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe, and the International Finance Corporate (IFC), the
private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, ore
working in partnerships with the Government of Ukraine to imple-
ment a project to privatise state and collectives farms. The
project is currently seeking candidates for two Kyiv-based posi-
tions, a Legal Manager (not included in this posting), and a
Deputy Project Manager.
The Deputy Project Manager will manage the development and imple-
mentation of training programs for Government officials and farm
commissions on the farm r e organization model piloted in Donetsk
Oblast. The position is also responsible for producing and dis-
tributing a manual documenting the reorganization model.
Applicants ideally will have previous experience in some of the
following areas: land issues, privatisation, training, and manual
production.
Both positions require candidates who work according to plans,
achieve deadlines, possess excellent judgment, and are willing to
travel frequently throughout the country. Fluency in Ukrainian
and/or Russian is essential.
Please send a concise CV and cover letter to:
Jeanne Segal
International Finance Corporation - Room K-3183
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20433
Fax: 1-202-522-2964
Email: jsegal@worldbank.org
British nationals are encouraged to apply
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Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: CEEMAN-L Internet List: An Invitation
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CEEMAN-L Internet List: An Invitation
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Greetings to list members from the Maine Business School. I have
often posted announcements to this list (and several others), and
thank you for your past patience and courtesy. I am now in the
process of simplifying my "internet life" by focusing more on the
CEEMAN-L list I manage for the Central and East European Manage-
ment Development Association. Happy to report that I have retired
from UMaine, and hope to spend as much time as possible
skiing/sailing, depending on the season. When in my office, I
will continue to post items - primarily to the CEEMAN-L list.
Attached to this note is a brief outline of CEEMAN-L purposes and
objectives, a list which shows the number of members in each
country, and instructions indicating how you can review recent
CEEMAN-L postings if you have access to NetNews. The target audi-
ence of CEEMAN-L is noted in the attached outline. However,
anyone interested in the CEE/NIS region is welcome to join the
list. If you know of colleagues who might be interested in the
list, I would be happy to add them to CEEMAN-L.
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* Dr. Dennis McConnell * TEL: +1.207.581.1988 *
* Eastern European Enterprise Network * FAX: +1.207.581.1956 *
* Maine Business School * TLX: 62955628 *
* University of Maine ************************
* Orono, Maine 04469-5723 U.S.A. * MAC@MAINE.MAINE.EDU *
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CEEMAN-L Internet List
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CEEMAN-L is an internet discussion list sponsored by the Central
and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN),
located in Slovenia. The CEEMAN-L list currently has about 390
members in 32 countries. A significant majority of members are
representatives of business schools/economics programs in the
CEE/NIS regions (Baltics, Central/Eastern Europe, Central Asia,
and Russia) and the U.S. The list also includes representatives
in the CEE/NIS regions from organizations such as the Interna-
tional Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the Soros Founda-
tion, NGOs in both the U.S. and the CEE/NIS regions, and Peace
Corps volunteers in the CEE/NIS regions.
The primary purpose of CEEMAN-L is to provide information to
academics in CEE/NIS business schools/economic programs who have
been isolated from information sources for many years. The list
serves more as a bulletin board than as a traditional internet
discussion list. The list is "moderated" - which means that all
messages to members of the list are first screened by the list
manager - a feature which protects the e-mail budgets of list
members who must pay fees to receive e-mail at some CEE/NIS
sites.
As the list manager, I monitor a large number of internet lists
to learn of new publications and information resources, confer-
ences, publishing and consulting opportunities, funding programs
and academic exchange programs. Any information that would seem
to be of interest to CEE/NIS members is posted to CEEMAN-L. Some
of the information may be useful and/or interesting to list
members in other regions. But the primary purpose is to serve the
information needs of CEE/NIS list members.
The secondary purpose of CEEMAN-L is to link CEE/NIS business
schools/economics programs with similar programs in the U.S. and
other regions. At the moment, we have well over 100 U.S. academic
sites on the list. Exactly how that linkage function will operate
in the coming months is not entirely clear at the moment. Howev-
er, as the list expands, my hope is that individual list members
will initially identify interesting academic links through the
list, and subsequently cooperate/communicate directly rather
through the list.
Representatives of business schools/economics programs in the
CEE/NIS regions can be added to the list by sending a message
directly to my e-mail address (mac@maine.maine.edu). It would be
helpful if the message included full name, e-mail address, insti-
tutional affiliation, postal address, and academic interests.
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* CEEMAN-L MAILING LIST DECEMBER 5, 1996 *
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* Country Subscribers
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* Albania 2
* Australia 1
* Austria 3
* Azerbaijan 1
* Belgium 2
* Bulgaria 15
* Canada 17
* Croatia 9
* Czech Republic 9
* Estonia 7
* Finland 1
* Great Britain 11
* Hungary 14
* Kazakhstan 1
* Latvia 1
* Lithuania 4
* Moldova 5
* Netherlands 1
* New Zealand 1
* Pakistan 1
* Poland 8
* Romania 19
* Russia 15
* Slovakia 7
* Slovenia 9
* Soviet Union 32
* Sweden 2
* Taiwan 1
* Turkey 1
* Ukraine 6
* USA 180
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* TOTAL NUMBER OF USERS SUBSCRIBED TO THE LIST: 390 *
* TOTAL NUMBER OF COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: 32 *
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CEEMAN-L Postings on Netnews Newsgroup
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Most of the items posted to CEEMAN-L are also posted on the
UMaine newsgroup "maine.international-funding" on the Netnews
system. On occasion, I also post items to the newsgroup that I do
not post to CEEMAN-L. Thus, if you have been recently added to
the CEEMAN-L list, you can review the postings for the past 30
days.
For members of the list who have access to Netnews on their
system, you can access Netnews, then use the search function to
locate the newsgroup by name. Then follow the function-key in-
structions on your system to open the newsgroup, scan the list of
announcement titles, open files, and save (download) files to
your computer.
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Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: CEP On-Line Partners Program
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I have recently received information about the new CEP On-Line
Partners Program, and have attached the announcement to this
note. It is my understanding that Partners will be matched after
the forthcoming holidays. Interested list members can complete
the attached information form and e-mail it to Ron Kim at the
address provided in the announcement. List members with web
capability may want to visit the CEP website.
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CEP On-Line Partners Program
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The true strength of the Internet is not in its ability to deliv-
er infinite amounts of information to a passive audience; rather,
it lies in its potential to create real communities where people
actively correspond with people to achieve a concrete objective.
The On-Line Partners Program (OPP) represents an effort to tap
into this potential of the Internet by promoting academic links,
expanding educational resources, and facilitating cooperation
between scholars and students in Central/Eastern Europe with
their counterparts in North America and Western Europe.
Due to a communist system that stifled open discussion in the
social sciences as well as generally poor economic conditions
that have left universities in the region with few resources,
many Central/East European professors and students are deprived
of the rich scholarly network they need to rebuild their depart-
ments, and that their Western counterparts take for granted. Many
do not have access to the latest literature in their fields and
few have been able to establish lasting contact with others who
share similar research and teaching interests. At the same time,
they offer many ideas and insights that have yet to enter into
the discussions of a wider academic community.
In response, the OPP offers a cost-effective and more sustainable
means of addressing the isolation experienced by universities
from Slovakia to Kazakstan, thereby assisting them integrate into
the global academic community. The increased availability of e-
mail throughout the region has given us the opportunity to link
Westerners with their Eastern colleagues in order to share ideas,
advice, and information in both directions. The focus of this
program is, therefore, to encourage and develop strong long-
distance relationships that focus on real academic questions.
The On-Line Partners Program is designed with the following
interconnected goals:
* Facilitating matches between Eastern and Western scholars and
students, thereby helping to establish a vital, living network
that furthers the development of social science scholarship and
cooperation.
* Creating a database of participating scholars and students that
will include research and teaching interests.
* Offering new content across social science disciplines.
* Serving as an information clearinghouse.
* Offering responsive and helpful coordination.
CEP is now recruiting Western partners for scholars and graduate
students at Russian regional universities in Yaroslavl, Novosi-
birsk, and Vladivostok where The Open Society Institute has
provided free Internet access to the local academic communities
through its recently opened University Internet Centers (29
additional centers are scheduled to open over the next 5 years).
CEP is also recruiting partners who will assist the most promis-
ing students and colleagues of current CEP Visiting Lecturers in
15 countries in Central/Eastern Europe. In particular, we are
searching for volunteers willing to provide guidance on specific
research and teaching topics or serve as academic advisors for
students.
In order to respond to the needs of its on-line partners, CEP
will also be expanding its World Wide Web homepage to include
such academic materials as syllabi, research articles, library
resources, grant information, and more. It will also attempt to
initiate new programs that reflect the future needs of its par-
ticipants. Examples might include publishing new research, incor-
porating the Internet into seminars, organizing virtual student
conferences, and launching distance education initiatives.
It is difficult to anticipate the exact time commitment the
program will require of its participants. For some, it might
entail answering an occasional question about grant-writing or
editing an essay. For others, it might involve more substantive
inquiries on teaching or research methodology. Some partners will
find themselves busier than others -- much will depend on indi-
vidual interests and schedules. Ultimately, the time you devote
can be very flexible but please keep in mind that even one hour a
week can represent a significant contribution.
As an on-line partner, you will be matched eventually with a
scholar or student in Central/Eastern Europe or the Former Soviet
Union who shares your academic interests or is need of your
assistance. Otherwise, your e-mail address will remain confiden-
tial. From time to time we will send out updates or information
you may find helpful as a partner.
If you would like to participate in the program, please complete
the following form and return to Ron Kim.
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ON-LINE PARTNERS FORM
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Name:
Title:
Department:
University or Institute:
E-mail address:
Major academic field(s):
Any previous experience living/working overseas?
In which country(ies):
Current research interests:
Current teaching interests:
Approximate number of hours per week you are willing to volunteer
as a partner:
Comments:
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Ronald Kim: rkim@cep.yale.edu
Civic Education Project
CEP Homepage: http://www.cep.yale.edu
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Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Search for Russian Political Web Sites
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Search for Russian Political Web Sites
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While reviewing the December issue of Business Central Europe
(BCE), I noted a new (to me, anyway) feature - a listing of
country-specific web sites. The December issue identifies Hungar-
ian web sites.
Members of this list may be interested to know that the February
1997 issue of BCE will focus on Russian political web sites. If
any list members know of useful sites, they are asked to send the
information to James Arnold (100337.1153@compuserve.com).
It would seem that if anyone knows of useful sites in the region,
it will be members of the Friends list.
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Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Ukraine - Program Administrator
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Perhaps some list members know of qualified colleagues who might
be interested in the attached position announcement. For more
information about the position, or about Eurasia Foundation,
please contact the e-mail address provided in the announcement.
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Program Administrator - Ukraine
Economics Education and Research Consortium
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The Economics Education and Research Consortium, a group of major
donor organizations created to promote high-quality education and
research in Russia and Ukraine, seeks a Program Administrator in
its Ukraine Office.
The Program Administrator will be involved in administrative
management of the office, oversee academic programs according to
the directions of the Program Director, coordinate with local and
visiting faculty, interact with University staff, manage the
program budget, prepare annual and quarterly financial reports,
and procure teaching material/supplies.
Minimum Requirements: BA degree in Business Administration,
Economics, or Public Administration, fluency in written and
spoken English, fluency in Ukrainian and/or Russian, and
experience in program and/or business management in the NIS.
Interested candidates should address inquiries and applications
by fax, or email to:
Mr. Jeff Mosser
The Eurasia Foundation
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington DC 20036
Fax: (202) 234-7377
Email: jmosser@eurasia.org
Deadline: December 21, 1996 No phone inquiries, please.
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Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: Ukraine FAQ Plus: Ukrainian Weekly Preview December 8th now
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
weekly newspaper (in English) extant in the Western
world covering Ukrainian issues both in Ukraine and in the
Ukrainian Diaspora. The preview is available on Internet at the
address of the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project. You can obtain
subscription information in order to read the complete articles
when you visit the web-site.
Please note that one may now browse the FAQ project using
an advanced three dimensional navigational tool. Point your
browser to http://www.tryzub.com/ for information on how
to download the plug-in for your browser and the actual "mcf"
image which is used for this.
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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