Digest for 97-02-25
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RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-25 February 97 Sender: Varga Istvan (varihold@mail.datanet.hu)
Subject: information request
02-25 February 97 Sender: mfinkel@gntech.net (Matvei Finkel)
Subject: Russian wooden pr.
03-25 February 97 Sender: Brad Mirman (scribbler@earthlink.net)
Subject: a little help
04-25 February 97 Sender: magkoev@tel.vladikavkaz.su
Subject: TouristExchange
05-25 February 97 Sender: MstrEman@aol.com
Subject: No Subject
06-25 February 97 Sender: Carol Howard (choward@midusa.net)
Subject: russia
07-25 February 97 Sender: phl3251 (phl3251@capital.net)
Subject: site
08-25 February 97 Sender: StGeorge@com2com.ru
Subject: new russian literature-education place.
09-25 February 97 Sender: Todd Palin (inkblot@xeo.net)
Subject: Coming to Moscow very soon
10-25 February 97 Sender: Virginia Simmons (vsimmons@access.k12.wv.us)
Subject: comment about friends/travel/
11-25 February 97 Sender: "Mustafa Borcbakan" (borcbakan@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: Food Processing and Packaging Market
12-25 February 97 Sender: alan david speirs (speirs@voyageronline.net)
Subject: discovery of your web page.
13-25 February 97 Sender: Lior Filshteiner (dj_lior@netvision.net.il)
Subject: Russian web page
14-25 February 97 Sender: "Michael J. White" (michael.white@rcinet.com)
Subject: Your web page / information site
15-25 February 97 Sender: OPRescue@aol.com
Subject: Planning to visit Moscow
16-25 February 97 Sender: "J. Bouchard & P. Froissart" (bouchard@cnam.fr)
Subject: 1928 russian text on rumor (could you help me?)
17-25 February 97 Sender: Marcus Bates (marcus@nwol.net)
Subject: Russian bread
18-25 February 97 Sender: Tatiana Poliakova (tpoliako@habaco.com)
Subject: Posting
19-25 February 97 Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Soloviev)
Subject: Call US-)Russia for $.68/min
20-25 February 97 Sender: webmaster@bellatlantic.net (Web Master)
Subject: Webkeeper Notification
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Sender: Varga Istvan (varihold@mail.datanet.hu)
Subject: information request
Please help us to find agribusiness information on the net. Thank you.
Marta Garami
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Sender: mfinkel@gntech.net (Matvei Finkel)
Subject: Russian wooden pr.
I want to import wooden (pine) finger joint blocks (kiln dried) from
Russian Far East. Where can I find imfo. about Russian companies that
produce dried wooden finger joints?
Thank you for your help.
Matvei Finkel
Russian-American Island
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Sender: Brad Mirman (scribbler@earthlink.net)
Subject: a little help
Hi,
I came across your page while doing a search on Russia. I am a
screenwriter at Columbia Pictures and I am currently working on a piece
that deals with several Russian characters.
I am looking for the name of a WOMAN'S prison in Russia. It could be in
Moscow, St. Petergberg or any large city.
Thanks for your help
Brad Mirman
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Sender: magkoev@tel.vladikavkaz.su
Subject: TouristExchange
(@SOVCOM.KIAE.SU,@DARIAL.UUCP,@TEL.UUCP:MAGKOEV@TEL.VLADIKAVKAZ.SU)
Dear Sir/Madam:
Not only exchange of information, but also exchange of tourist groups
between USA and Russia is useful for promotion of mutual understanding
and friendship. I am a manager of USA-Russia Friendship Association of
Republic of North Ossetia, the part of Russian Federation.
We established contacts with Women's Association of North Carolina and
Jericho Church of Christ in Mocksville (N.C.). Recently ten people,
members of these organizations, visited North Ossetia for ten days and
each American was hosted by Russian family. Afterwards, ten people from
North Ossetia who hosted Americans, visited North Carolina for ten days
and lived in the families of their former American guests. All expenses,
except travell between USA and Russia, were paid by the hosts.
We found that this kind of cooperation is very fruitful for promotion of
friendship. Both Americans and Russians enjoyed very much of their
trips.
Now we would like to establish contacts with other organizations of USA,
which would be interested in the above activities.
If you are not interested in this message, I should appreciate if you
pass it to someone who you think might be interested.
Thank you in advance.
Tamerlan MAGKOEV
____________________
121-83 Kesaev,
Vladikavkaz 362 020,
Russia.
Tel: +7-867-2254-635
E-mail: magkoev@tel.vladikavkaz.su
____________________
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Sender: MstrEman@aol.com
Subject: No Subject
I have been having dificulty understanding and locating information on the
nuances of E-mail to and from Cyrillic based countries could you give me some
websites which might help ? -Elton Jones
OR JonesElton@aol.com
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Sender: Carol Howard (choward@midusa.net)
Subject: russia
I am not sure if you will be able to help me but I am in need of
information about Russia during the reign of the czars. I am
praticullarly interested in information on the ecomony at this time.
Thank you, Emily Pappas
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Sender: phl3251 (phl3251@capital.net)
Subject: site
very interesting - i will spend more time soon! I came to this
site in the hope of finding some sort of cross reference between
clothing & shoe sizes in the USA and those in Russia & the Ukraine
Can you point me in some sort of direction?
Perry Lawrence Keene NY
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Sender: StGeorge@com2com.ru
Subject: new russian literature-education place.
new russian literature-education place.
Was opened new Russian-English web-editor
The St. George Publisher
http://www.art.ru/stgeorge/stgeorge.htm
mostly poetical oriented.
It's present New Classicism, Conservative Royalism and
Orthodox Christianity.
Going to open competition of programs of Russian Literature.
Editor- Sergei Streltsov- Moscow poet, author of poetical
collection 'The Short Odes' dedicated to Her Majesty,-
Elizabeth II. [submitions are welcome]
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Sender: Todd Palin (inkblot@xeo.net)
Subject: Coming to Moscow very soon
Hi,
We are planning to go to Moscow next month and need to find a short, 6 week
course, there that would be mostly in English.
Can you suggest a source or a link in Friends and Partners where I might
find more information on the possibilities?
I am an American professional, a senior, and so is my companion.
Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Sam and Germaine
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Sender: Virginia Simmons (vsimmons@access.k12.wv.us)
Subject: comment about friends/travel/
Actually, this is not a comment to improve the page. I think that it is
just fine. This is information on obtaining an invitation from Russia. If
you haven't travelled for awhile, a new law is in effect that says that
invitations must be sent from a central location and all of the information
that you submit for a VISA, plus more, plus your copy of your passport is
needed just for an invitation. Leave yourself plenty of time to get this.
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Sender: "Mustafa Borcbakan" (borcbakan@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: Food Processing and Packaging Market
Dear Madam/Sir,
I am doing a research on Food Processing and Packaging Market in Russia for
my MBA class on International Marketing. During my researches I have faced
some difficulties to measure the market size. I would be happy if you can
mail me any kind of statistical data about the market size or if you can
give me any other address to find that kind of data.
I am looking forward to hearing from you
Sincerely
Mustafa Borcbakan
mailto:borcbakan@worldnet.att.net
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Sender: alan david speirs (speirs@voyageronline.net)
Subject: discovery of your web page.
Glad to find you.
I am Alan Speirs - an independent businessman in Chattanooga TN. I have,
for the past two years been attemtping, in conjunction with my partner,
Oscar Camp (ocampjr.@voy.net) to establish a carpet manufacturing
operation in the city of St. Peterasburg.
We have travelled to St. Peteersburg five times together in the last
year and formed a partnership there with one Mr. Grigory Borisavich
Rykman.
We would be very interested to hear from anyone who might be find our
project of interest or who think they may be able to assist us.
Spasseeba and Dosvedanya !!
Alan Speirs
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Sender: Lior Filshteiner (dj_lior@netvision.net.il)
Subject: Russian web page
Hi,
I came across your site and found it very interesting, but there's
one thing I need to ask you if you please...
I live in Israel, so my windows is set to Hebrew/English mode. A client
wants me to create a site for him that is in English/Hebrew/Russian. I
know how to write in English and Hebrew, but what would I have to do in
order to write the HTML in Russian (I don't speak the language).
Any help would be appreciated,
Lior.
Lior Filshteiner
Hod-Hasharon, Israel
E-mail: dj_lior@netvision.net.il
Home-Page: http://www.macom.co.il/~lior/
:
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Sender: "Michael J. White" (michael.white@rcinet.com)
Subject: Your web page / information site
Greetings!
I am an American Dermatologist, serving in the military. I have family
roots in Russia and Poland, as well as in England, Scotland, and Wales. I
recently decided to learn Russian and am studying it on my own. I already
speak Spanish and a little bit of German, with a few words of Japanese and
Korean. I study Russian with the aid of tapes and a few books.
I did a Web Crawler search to find World Wide Web links to Russia-related
web pages and found your web page. I have added it to my Bookmark file and
will explore it more.
I also would like to know Russian physicians, especially dermatologists, for
information & cultural exchange, as well as to have a chance to practice my
Russian, as primitive as it is. Are you aware of any good web links that
would serve as a means to identify people to write to, send email to?
Keep up the good work! I'm glad you set up your web page.
Thank you.
Michael J. White
Michael J. White, MD
michael.white@rcinet.com
10008 Arn Drive
Centerville OH 45458-4148
USA
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Sender: OPRescue@aol.com
Subject: Planning to visit Moscow
22 February 1997
Greetings,
I am planning to visit Moscow, 23-26 March 1997. My purpose is to enjoy the
city as a first-time tourist.
For the past eight years I have worked full-time for an anti-abortion
activist group in the United States called ìOperation Rescue.î I have been
involved in leading demonstrations against abortion that have resulted in my
own arrest over 40 times, as well as the arrests of over 60,000 Americans.
Though I am only going to be in Moscow for a short time. I would like to
share my experiences in fighting against legalized abortion and the use of
civil-disobedience in America.
If you know of a University class, or religious institution that would want
to spend an hour or two discussing such matters, please pass my name and
information on to them.
Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely,
Gary McCullough
National Media Coordinator
Operation Rescue
POB 583
Skyforest, California 92385 USA
Phone: 909.336.4352
Fax: 909.336.2012
email: OpRescue@aol.com
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Sender: "J. Bouchard & P. Froissart" (bouchard@cnam.fr)
Subject: 1928 russian text on rumor (could you help me?)
My request will seem you probably weird... but I'm sure that you will be
able to "redirect" me on the right track!
For my thesis (Ph.D. Communication) on "rumors", I'm looking for a 1928
article in russian, which is quite important for me. But I do not have any
idea how to find it, because he is quite old (1928).
Do you know how I can proceed? For more convenience (!), I've got only the
title of the article in his german translation...
* BYSOW, L. A. (transl.: N. von Wiese), 1928.
* "Gerüchte (Geruechte)".
* Kölner Vierteljahrschefte für Soziologie
* (or Koelner Vierteljahrzeitschrift fuer Soziologie)
* No. 7.
* Pages 301-308 (or 416-426).
I would greatly appreciate if you could give me any "hint"...
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Pascal Froissart,
Ph.D. candidate
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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Sender: Marcus Bates (marcus@nwol.net)
Subject: Russian bread
Russian bread (C:\bread-re.cip) marcus@nwol.com
I love visiting russia and eating the wonderful baked bread, especially the
bread that is sold in unwrapped whole loaves at unexpected little bakeries
located in secret places Known only to the local residents. The bread
always is a dense, black, crusty loaf that costs 5-20 cents a kilo (large
loaf). This is a mystery for the grain must have cost almost that amount.
I especially love to purchase bread and milk Direct from the farmer. There
is nothing in this world that can equal this type food, but it is
unavailable here in the usa unless you can learn to prepare it yourself.
As a service to my fellow man, I have almost accomplished this, At least to
the extent that I can manage to survive between trips to russia.
Now you ought to know that I am a great research chemical engineer and that
it required years of experimental research in my private research center
(our family kitchen at batesfield airpark in west texas). Here is the
secret recipe that is the Result of an enormous expenditure of experimental
research effort.
I must thank my wife for her support in this matter; and special thanks to
our guard dog we refer to as "girl- dog" who helped dispose of many of the
early misguided efforts.
Ingredients:
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup Rye Flour
1 cup Rolled oats
1 cup corn meal
1 cup unbleached flour
1 cup allbran
1/2 cup Powered milk
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup olive oil
Big spoon of dry yeast
Pinch salt maybe
Water as required, but careful.
2 bowls (1 large, 1 small) and a large stout spoon
Procedure:
1. Sprinkle small amount cornmeal in bottom of a dry pan and I
guarantee You that the loaf will not stick. Old beat up iron pans are
the best. Never Aluminum.
2. Save all of the 1 cup unbleached flour for kneading the dough later
on.
3. Mix all remaining dry ingredients in the large mixing bowl thats
larger than you think you will need.
4. Prepare warm water; use less than you think is needed. The water
should be almost hot. The Mixing bowl and spoon should be preheated
with hot water. Everything should be at room temperature except for
the Water which is very warm but not hot.
5. Mix Half the warm water with the powdered milk, honey, salt, oil.
You can include the dry yeast if you wish to see it foam (called proof
the yeast)
6. Add the Warm water mixture containing The Milk, honey, salt, and
oil solution to the mixing bowl containing the prepared dry ingredients
. Mix well until you are exhausted. Then set in a comfortably warm
place until dough rises.
8. Then kneed again, noting that the dough has acquired a very
different Consistency in that it has elasticity now whereas originally
it was a blob of gelatinous glop.
9. Dump the unused 1 cup unbleached flour onto the smoothest table top
you can find and commence kneading the dough with the flour until again
you are exhausted. The smooth table top I use is a 3 ft x 3 ft marble
slab made especially for kneading dough. My wife, out of desperation,
made me a present of it 20 years ago .
10. In about 1/2 hour you will begin to see the wonders of home baked
bread from scratch. Let the dough rise one last time, or if you need
the exercise kneed it again and then form it into a proper loaf and
tenderly deposit it on top of the few bits of cornmeal in the prepared
iron baking pan.
11. Bake at 350 degrees f. For 30-50 minutes. You can preheat the oven
or, if energy conscious, place the formed loaf in the oven, let it rise,
then start the oven while the loaf is in the act of rising. The secret
is to catch it on the rise, too early or too late and you will have a
less desirable bread.
Notes of interest
You can use most any grain product in this bread. Cooked left overs
such as oatmeal, cornbread, rice, old biscuits , crackers; so there is
no waste.
I have great luck including brown sugar, raisins, and dates in the
dough and often obtain the most astonishing Results. This type bread
seems to satisfy a nostalgic type of hunger that no store bought bread
can satisfy.
GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY LANDINGS.
marcus@nwol.com
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Sender: Tatiana Poliakova (tpoliako@habaco.com)
Subject: Posting
Dear Friends:
Please post the following message:
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
The date and time for the Russian MBA meeting in New York City has been
finalized: since quite a few people expressed interest to participate in the
International Job Fair in NYC (for Fair info, please check the Russian MBA
Association home page) on April 11,1997, we are getting together on
APRIL 12, 1997 at 4 p.m.
at the Olive Tree cafe in Greenwich Village
Cafe's address: 117 McDugal Street, tel.: 212-254-3480, it's within short
walking distance from Washington Square park.
Please RSVP or just let me now if you are planning to attend: I will have to
place a reservation for our group.
We are trying to invite businessmen and finance/investment specialists from Big
6 and other prominent consulting firms working on projects in Russia, NIS,
Eastern and Central Europe to our meeting. If you are interested in attending
this meeting and developing the agenda, please contact me at:
tpoliako@habaco.com
Sincerely,
Tatiana Poliakova
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Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Soloviev)
Subject: Call US-)Russia for $.68/min
Dear Friends & Partners,
I want to remind 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 (888) 231-2857.
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Sender: webmaster@bellatlantic.net (Web Master)
Subject: Webkeeper Notification
Webkeeper:
Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions has tentatively identified your site to be
included within its Internet Access Service as a "best of the net" site.
The service provides a graphical user interface which enables the customer
to intuitively navigate an index of "the best of the net" websites. We
plan to point users to your site via HTML links from within our service.
Unless we receive objections to our plan, we will proceed to provide the
link as set forth above. We would appreciate your earliest response, but
no later than Feburary 28th, 1997. Additional information about BAIS, can
be found at: http://www.bellatlantic.net.
Thanks for your time!
webmaster@bellatlantic.net
----------------------- END FRIENDS February 25, 1997 -------------------------
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