Digest for May 19, 1999
Table of Contents
RECENT GUESTBOOK ENTRIES . . .
01-19 May 99 Sender: clucenius@telcordia.com
Subject: Cynthia Lucenius
02-19 May 99 Sender: www.ginny58@webtv.com
Subject: Virginia
03-19 May 99 Sender: melekh@students.soros.karelia.ru
Subject: Rita
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-19 May 99 Sender: "Daf" (daf@meirionnydd.force9.co.uk)
Subject: travelling to Russia
02-19 May 99 Sender: natasha (natasha@zgr.kts.ru)
Subject: Summer Language School "Treasury of World Culture" in
Siberia!
03-19 May 99 Sender: "Kedzie, Chris" (C.KEDZIE@FORDFOUND.ORG)
Subject: FW: New Lists for Conferences, Jobs, Scholarships
04-19 May 99 Sender: Lozansky@aol.com
Subject: Pushkin 200 Gala
05-19 May 99 Sender: linda oldham (lindaoldham@mindspring.com)
Subject: hospital care in Uzbekistan
06-19 May 99 Sender: "Vintik's Club" (vintik@vintik.net)
Subject: find friends from the FSU
07-19 May 99 Sender: "Serguei Alex Oushakine" (oushakin@ssc.upenn.edu)
Subject: POSTGRADUATE RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
08-19 May 99 Sender: Don George (dag@efn.org)
Subject: looking for penpal
09-19 May 99 Sender: "—¡Ã‰³i MŠÀ¦Ã¡ ¦×ŠÞ ÏŠ²‰‘À¦" (Valery_Lysenko@mail.ru)
Subject: Hi from sunny Chernobyl !
10-19 May 99 Sender: "Julio Rodriguez" (culturelink@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: Moscow Language and Culture Program
11-19 May 99 Sender: "RACC (Washington, DC)" (rusric@erols.com)
Subject: RECEPTION AT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY
12-19 May 99 Sender: Odinaev Vahob (vahob@khj.td.silk.org)
Subject: Friendship. (fwd)
13-19 May 99 Sender: Marupov Dilshod (abdula@khj.td.silk.org)
Subject: Friendship (fwd)
14-19 May 99 Sender: "Alexandr Worobuev" (surite@hotmail.com)
Subject: I examine(consider) a capability of emigration
in Canada.
15-19 May 99 Sender: Apple8196@aol.com
Subject: Your website
16-19 May 99 Sender: "Bruce Hegerberg" (boo@america.net)
Subject: Hebrew and Russian Book Reviews
17-19 May 99 Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Soloviev)
Subject: Call Moscow $0.06/min! and more!
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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RECENT GUESTBOOK ENTRIES . . .
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Sender: clucenius@telcordia.com
Subject: Cynthia Lucenius
Hello, I will soon be adopting a Russian child and am very interested in
"all things Russian." Especially what it is like to live in Russia today.
I would like to correspond with someone who lives in Russia and a regular
basis and exchange information about our lives in our countries.
I just saw the "Treasure from Russia" collection in Las Vegas and
thoroughly enjoyed the art, china, and other objects that came from the
Peterhof Museum.
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Sender: www.ginny58@webtv.com
Subject: Virginia
Hello, I am married and 60 yrs. old and would like to talk to a woman my
age. I would like to exchange ideas from other parts of the world.I would
like to talk with a Russian person. This site is just great! Hope to hear
from someone soon. Ginny
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Sender: melekh@students.soros.karelia.ru
Subject: Rita
Hello evrybody! If you love original music welcome to my homepage
http://students.soros.karelia.ru/~melekh. Best wishes! Rita
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Sender: "Daf" (daf@meirionnydd.force9.co.uk)
Subject: travelling to Russia
In response to "Kathy Wait" but may be of use to others.
Try http://1sttravelrussia.virtualave.net/transport.htm. It gives all sorts
of travel info for Russia including Sheremetevo.
Daf [web page-http://www.meirionnydd.force9.co.uk]
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Sender: natasha (natasha@zgr.kts.ru)
Subject: Summer Language School "Treasury of World Culture" in Siberia!
Hello! My name is Natasha Tabunschikova. I come from Zelenogorsk, a town
in Krasnoyarsk region, Central Siberia. I am an Assistant Principal of
Linguistic Gymnasia in charge of international cooperation. We are
searching for teachers - native English speakers - and students, who would
volunteer to participate in the International Language Summer School, which
will take place from June 19th until July 2nd, 1999, in a picturesque
suburban area of the largest Siberian city Novosibirsk.
The International Language Summer School is organized by Linguistic
Gymnasia # 164 and the Department of Education of the city of Zelenogorsk.
Since 1995 until 1997 it was held on the campus of the regional Cosmonautic
School situated in the picturesque woods area outside Zelenogorsk. In
August 1998 the Summer Language School was based in the sanatorium on the
Obskoe Sea shore, outside the city of Novosibirsk. This year the 5th
International Summer Language School will take place in the same suburban
area of the city of Novosibirsk for two weeks in the end of June -
beginning of July. The School will be housed in the sanatorium, which
provides comfortable rooms, classrooms, good food, nice recreational
facilities.
The participants of the International Summer Language School are the best
students of Linguistic Gymnasia and other schools of Zelenogorsk, who are
keen on the English language and culture, and have passed complicated
entrance exams. Each year we host delegations from abroad. Since 1995
students and teachers from the United States, Great Britain and Poland have
participated in the Summer School.
Our aim is to help students realize their full potential, thereby educating
the whole person. The School provides a professional and friendly
atmosphere in which students find it easy to improve their English. Every
morning the students have specialized classes based on the curriculum and
the theme of the Summer School, which include language games, discussion
sessions, world culture, press-club, etc. We employ the best teachers from
Linguistic Gymnasia and foreign educators, who work on voluntary basis.
Students are encouraged to undertake projects and make presentations, so
within the program all the students have the choice of individual research
work under the teacher's supervision, which results in the creative defense
of the projects on the last School day. Presentations are video-taped so
that students can analyze their own and each other's performance and
improve their skills.
The School encourages all students to continue practicing English after
classes, we are determined to ensure that they all benefit fully from the
interaction with Staff both inside and outside classroom. The School lives
a full cultural and social life. In the afternoon we offer sports
competitions, intellectual games, quizes. We feel that a fit body makes
for a healthy mind, thus we offer as wide a range of sports, games and
recreational activities as possible in the hope that all our students find
some form of activity which interests them. We also understand the
importance of educating our youngsters in all the different aspects of Arts
in its fullest sense and developing their creative skills. Every evening
we have various entertaining competitions, shows, performances,
presentations, parties, discos, etc. according to the program and the
theme of the School, where in a friendly and creative environment the
talents are fully revealed and good relationships are established and new
friends are made. All foreign participants are encouraged to make
presentations of their cultures. Besides, we offer several tours of the
city of Novosibirsk, including main city cites, museums, art gallery,
Academic city (scientific center of Siberia) and a bout tour on the river.
We can assure you of a particularly warm welcome and hope you will be
encouraged to participate in our Summer Language School and experience at
first hand our way of life, which is designed to generate an environment
where we live happily in a friendly atmosphere, in which classes and
recreation are an important part.
If a teacher comes to participate in the School, he/she will have to work
out the program for his/her classes. We can discuss this in detail after
he/she has confirmed their coming and participating. We will provide
accommodation, food, cultural program, excursions to the city of
Novosibirsk, transfers. There is no charge for that. The teacher pays the
airfare to get to Novosibirsk and return. The work is done on a completely
voluntary basis, there is no payment or stipend. Students from any
countries are welcome to participate and be a part of international
classes, they par for participation 170 US dollars per person for a
two-week program which includes accommodation in the sanatorium, food,
transfers, tuition and activities at School, cultural program, excursions
to the city of Novosibirsk.
We may have the second school session later in July after this first one is
over on July 2nd.
If you've got interested, please be free to ask any questions and I
will provide you more information and a detailed every day program.
And I can assure you of a very warm welcome!
I am looking forward to hearing from you. Email me at:
natasha@zgr.kts.ru
Best regards,
Natasha mailto:natasha@zgr.kts.ru
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Sender: "Kedzie, Chris" (C.KEDZIE@FORDFOUND.ORG)
Subject: FW: New Lists for Conferences, Jobs, Scholarships
-----Original Message-----
From: Public-Interest-Law-Network [mailto:piln@law.columbia.edu]
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 8:03 PM
To: d.shabelnikov@fordfound.org; c.kedzie@fordfound.org;
i.gross@fordfound.org; m.mcauley@fordfound.org
-----Original Message-----
From: craig zelizer (czelizer@osf1.gmu.edu)
New Mailing Lists from Craig Zelizer
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Craig Zelizer has often, in the past, provided some very interesting
and useful announcements for our lists. He has now created some
interesting mailing lists, and outlined them in the announcement
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You will note below that the first list is "nisjobs" - and here is
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Go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/nisjobs
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If you do not have web access, you can do the following:
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You will receive a message confirming your subscription.
You will note, in the list below, that their are 8 difference
lists. The instructions above subscribe you to nisjobs. For any
other list, you will use the same procedure, but use the name of
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1) nisjobs (NIS related jobs in the US and Abroad)
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4) nisscholarships (Former Soviet Union related Scholarships)
5) ceescholarships (Central Europe Related Scholarships)
6) conflictscholarships (Conflict and Development Related
Scholarships)
7) dcevents (DC related human rights, conflict, development talks,
conferences)
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** 04 **********************************************************************
Sender: Lozansky@aol.com
Subject: Pushkin 200 Gala
This list is for those interested in US - Russian business, political,
cultural and educational exchanges. If you want to be removed, please click
reply and type REMOVE. Sorry for disturbing.
YOU ARE INVITED TO ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 200 GALA CELEBRATION AT CARNEGIE HALL
on Saturday, June 12, 1999, 7.00 pm or at the RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
on Monday, June 14, 7.00 pm.
Honorary Co-Chairmen Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and His Excellency Yuri
Ushakov, Russian Ambassador in Washington
Program features classical music and arias, russian romances, choral music,
and poetry with participation of Oscar nominee actor Ralph Fiennes (English
Patient, Schindler's List, Evgeni Onegin), popular actor and singer Keith
David, Metropolitan Opera Stars Stefka Evstateva, Sergei Leiferkus and Joseph
Shalamayev, renown Russian actor Sergei Yurski, Yale University Russian
Chorus and others.
Tickets $25, $50, $75 can be ordered through Carnegie Box office 212-247-7800
or by filling out the form below and sending it by e-mail to
Pushkin@RussiaHouse.org.
Sponsors (silver $250, gold $500 and platinum $1,000) will be listed in
Carnegie Hall Stagebill and invited to the Meet the Artists reception at the
Russian Consulate in New York on June 10, post concert dinner at New York
Restaurant Russian Samovar on June 12 and Russian Embassy in Washington
concert and reception on June 14.
All contributions are tax-deductible.
If you are interested in buying tickets please call Carnegie Hall Box Office
at 212-247-7800 or fill out the form below and mail with your check made out
to Pushkin 200 or fax and e-mail to:
Pushkin 200, c/o Russia House
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Tel. 202-986-6010, Fax 202-667-4244
E-mail: Pushkin@RussiaHouse.org
I would like to be ___Platinum Sponsor $1000 (4 tickets)____Golden Sponsor (2
tickets) ____Silver Sponsor $250 (1 ticket)
Please send _____tickets @ ___$50____$75 (New York concert on Saturday, June
12)
Please send _____tickets @____$35 (Washington* concert and reception on
Monday, June 14)
Name__________________________________________________
Address________________________________________________
City____________________State________Zip_________________
Phone______________Fax______________E-mail_____________
For additional information, please call 202-986-6010 or 212-779-1771
*Washington Program is shorter from New York but it will be followed by
reception. $35 includes concert and reception.
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Sender: linda oldham (lindaoldham@mindspring.com)
Subject: hospital care in Uzbekistan
I realize this is a distance from your interest, but I am urgently
looking for information on hospital care in Uzbekistan, meaning
Tashkent. If anyone can give me suggestions on Uzbek doctors working in
the US, or American doctors who have worked in Uzbekistan, or even
directories of Uzbek doctors anywhere in the world, I would be very
grateful. Thank you.
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Sender: "Vintik's Club" (vintik@vintik.net)
Subject: find friends from the FSU
If you are looking for a lost friend from the FSU, try our webpage at
http://www.vintik.net/vlinks/imm/find.html; it lists many links that could
be very useful.
Vintik's American Russian Club, http://www.vintik.net
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Sender: "Serguei Alex Oushakine" (oushakin@ssc.upenn.edu)
Subject: POSTGRADUATE RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
POSTGRADUATE RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
CREES is a major, internationally recognised, multi-disciplinary
research and training centre specialising on Russia and Eastern
Europe. It provides supervision for research degree students leading
to the degree of PhD and MPhil, and it offers two taught masters
programmes leading to the degrees of MA and MSc. Provision is made
for part-time study for all these programmes.
The MA programme is specially designed for students who are
considering moving on to a higher degree. For MA students who have
no degree-level knowledge of a Slavonic language, beginners courses
are provided in either Russian, Ukrainian, Polish or Romanian. The
MSc programme offers a more vocationally orientated course, for which
the study of a Slavonic language is available as an option.
For further particulars and application forms, please contact Mrs MB
Arries by letter, telephone, fax, e-mail, or accessing our website,
quoting reference CREES\WEB.NPS\99.
Centre for Russian and East European Studies,
The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Telephone: 0121-414-6347; fax: 0121-414-3423
E-mail: M.B.Arries@bham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bham.ac.uk/crees/
Serguei Alex Oushakine
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Sender: Don George (dag@efn.org)
Subject: looking for penpal
Greetings friends,
I am looking for a penpal from the former U.S.S.R., possibly from Irkutsk,
our sister city. I work in a cooperative which manufactures bicycles and
other related products which are sold worldwide. Several years ago, our
co-op was visited by a delegation from Irkutsk and one of the members gave
me a pack of postcards including pictures of the N. P. Okhlopkov Drama
Theater, the A.S. Shcherbakov Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren, and
of course, beautiful Lake Baikal. I am in my fifties and my interests
include bicycles, farming, manufacturing, people, and more. I live in
Eugene, Oregon.
Thanks,
Don
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Sender: "—¡Ã‰³i MŠÀ¦Ã¡ ¦×ŠÞ ÏŠ²‰‘À¦" (Valery_Lysenko@mail.ru)
Subject: Hi from sunny Chernobyl !
Dear colleagues,
Please welcome our sites and include its links to your list.
--
Best regards, Valery M. Lysenko,
. GIS department of "Infocenter Chernobyl"
* * http://www.ic-chernobyl.kiev.ua/~lysenko
* mailto:lysenko@ic-chernobyl.kiev.ua
* tel: (+38 044 93) 52868, 52719, 51942
* * 255620 Ukraine, Chernobyl p/b 183
* fax: X, home: (+38 044) 440-4850
----------------------- I recommend : www.mail.ru !
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Sender: "Julio Rodriguez" (culturelink@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: Moscow Language and Culture Program
Hello Friends,
I am a member of a group called the Culturelink based in New York City,
( www.culturelinks.net ) and we are trying to help one of our Russian
associates from Moscow, to connect with other institutions for
cooperative approaches with their language and culture programs.
Since 1992 the Centre for Education, GRINT (Moscow, Russia ) has been
offering a wide range of Russian Language and Culture courses of 2 weeks
to 1 year ( including Exam preparation Course for the Russian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry certificate in Business Russian), as well
as an Internship program with placement in International and Russian
companies and Professional Development Seminars focused on the most
topical issues of Russian Life. Special culture and educational
programmes throughout the country could be arranged and they are anxious
to find American institutions who could work with them on this.
For more information you can contact them directly at:
Phone 095-374-74-30
Fax 095-374-73-66
E-mail grint@glasnet.ru
http://www.grint.ru
Alexander Rouchkine, Dir
or,
In New York, we can be reached at the above Web site or 212-567-5834,
Olga Zatsepina, Ph.d.=20
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Sender: "RACC (Washington, DC)" (rusric@erols.com)
Subject: RECEPTION AT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY
- CELEBRATE THE 200 BIRTHDAY OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN WITH THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN
ELITE AT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY
- MEET NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN PERSON
- JOIN RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN CELEBRITIES
Reception and the concert dedicated to the 200th Birthday of the greatest
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin will be held at the Russian Embassy June 14,
1999
(beginning 7:00 PM).
The event is sponsored the new Russian Ambassador the Hon. Yuri Vorontsov.
Tickets $35.00 (Concert+ reception)
Sponsorship and limited advertising opportunities available.
To order tickets and for additional information, please contact our Washington,
DC office
Number of tickets is limited.
Russian Art Center
Phone: (202) 546-2103
Fax: (202) 546-3275
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Sender: Odinaev Vahob (vahob@khj.td.silk.org)
Subject: Friendship. (fwd)
Hi.My name is Vahob Odinaev.I'm 18 years old.I'm from Tajikistan. I study
at the Taj.St.Univ. of "Law,Business & Politics" in first course. I'd
like to have some friends from foreign countries. If you want to meet with
me write by address vahob@khj.td.silk.org . I'll wait for your letters.
GOOD LUCK!
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Sender: Marupov Dilshod (abdula@khj.td.silk.org)
Subject: Friendship (fwd)
Hello! My name is Dilshod Marupov. I'm from Tajikistan.I am 16 years old
and I study at the Tajik State University of law business and politic of
"International Economic Relations" faculty.I want to have some pen-pals
from foreign countries and change some informations with them. I'll be
pleased to get your letter. You can write a letter to this
address: abdula@khj.td.silk.org G O O D B Y E !
** 14 **********************************************************************
Sender: "Alexandr Worobuev" (surite@hotmail.com)
Subject: I examine(consider) a capability of emigration in Canada.
Hi!
During this year I examine(consider) a capability of emigration in Canada.
Therefore I want to set to you some questions.
1. What Canada by eyes her(it) of the inhabitant? Whether there are
at it(her) distinctive features?
2. What trades have the greatest demand? What wage level?
Whether 3. Is difficult(complex) to find housing accomodation and how many
it costs(stands)?
4. How the cities differ from each other point of view;!from the point of
view of economy and capability to find activity?
5. Could you give some advices(councils) about that as itself to a message
after the arrival in Canada to take the most of the chance.
I think you me will understand....
I offer will inform by the impressions.
I wish to read your opinion and your remarks. There can be I shall make an
error of all my life..
Alexander - surite@hotmail.com
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Sender: Apple8196@aol.com
Subject: Your website
I visited you website and liked it very much. I was wondering if you could
send me some information on the traditional foods in Russia and when they are
eaten. Information on Russian gingerbread would be particularly helpful.
Thank you very much!
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Sender: "Bruce Hegerberg" (boo@america.net)
Subject: Hebrew and Russian Book Reviews
If you are interested in Hebrew and Russian literature translated into
english, stop by my website. I've done around 30 book reviews on all
sorts of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
www.america.net/~boo/html/home.html
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Sender: mvs3@po.CWRU.Edu (Maxim V. Soloviev)
Subject: Call Moscow $0.06/min! and more!
We have a lot of good news for you this morning. First, our
strongest commercial 1+ service, Qwest Q.Biz, has reduced their
interstate rate to 6.9 cents per minute, and they have, at
least until the end of June, eliminated the term requirement
in order to provide the lowest rates on the service.
http://qbizagent.com/?synapse
You may wish to review the new ICE rates. The ICE card has
been redesignated EuroICE. The domestic USA rate is 3.9 cents
per minute, with a 35 cent surcharge; but the most exciting
news is the rates to a few key countries, which are nothing
short of AMAZING. Examples: the following countries are all
3 (three) cents per minute, with a 75 cent surcharge: Japan,
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and UK. Russia is 16 cents per minute with a one
dollar surcharge. Moscow and Israel are SIX cents per minute!
Due to slightly higher margins, we will continue to place
heavy emphasis on the VoCall Five Cent Phone Card; but you
might want to also promote the EuroICE card, depending on
your target markets.
http://LD.NET/ice/?synapse
More offeres: http://ld.net/?synapse
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