Digest for June 01, 1999
Table of Contents
RECENT GUESTBOOK ENTRIES . . .
01-01 June 99 Sender: star1@star.kirov.ru
Subject: Elena
02-01 June 99 Sender: jilrene@kih.net
Subject: Jill
03-01 June 99 Sender: jkatsell@cris.com
Subject: Jerry Katsell
04-01 June 99 Sender: star1@star.kirov.ru
Subject: Nastya
05-01 June 99 Sender: Gbask@aol.com
Subject: George
06-01 June 99 Sender: MHERMAN443@AOL.COM
Subject: Michael Herman
07-01 June 99 Sender: xenophyla@aol.com
Subject: Judith Twitchell
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-01 June 99 Sender: betty lucas (bentbamboo@earthlink.net)
Subject: Please Post this.
02-01 June 99 Sender: Michael Kupka (myck@carrot.com)
Subject: russian-jewish-law-nationality
03-01 June 99 Sender: "Vintik's Club" (vintik@vintik.net)
Subject: are you looking for penpals?
04-01 June 99 Sender: "Roman" (szmis@mail.spbnit.ru)
Subject: Pen friends wanted
05-01 June 99 Sender: gregbussey@mindspring.com
Subject: re: Abkahzia
06-01 June 99 Sender: natasha (natasha@zgr.kts.ru)
Subject: Summer Language School in Siberia
07-01 June 99 Sender: v_welton@hotmail.com
Subject: looking for friend from north of Russia - Kandalaksha
08-01 June 99 Sender: "Heinrich Tann" (caesarevents3@hotmail.com)
Subject: Summer Party this Thursday, June 3rd, The RUSSIA HOUSE
09-01 June 99 Sender: "Mark K. Cimini" (mark@linus.mitre.org)
Subject: A Question
10-01 June 99 Sender: Edward Potereiko (Zymanio@concentric.net)
Subject: KO18
11-01 June 99 Sender: Roobkqueen@aol.com
Subject: Family Schoen Njini, Dobrinka Russia
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RECENT GUESTBOOK ENTRIES . . .
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Sender: star1@star.kirov.ru
Subject: Elena
Hello, gerls and boys 15-25 yeas old! Do you want to have friends in
Russia? Write me. I am Russian journalist and editor young newspaper.
Bye.
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Sender: jilrene@kih.net
Subject: Jill
My husband and I are adopting a young girl from Russia. We would
appreciate advice from anyone who has been through this (either as a parent
or as an adoptee). Also, we want to learn more about Russia and her
cultures. Are there any other good sites that may help us? Thanks
bunches!! ~ jill
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Sender: jkatsell@cris.com
Subject: Jerry Katsell
Privet vsem!
I'm Jerry. I live near San Diego, USA. I've studied Russian many years and
am interested in corresponding (I read and understand Russian, Czech and
French). My wife Nelly is from Prague, and we have a son Noah who is a law
student.
My father came as a child with his family from Russia--Irkutsk. They lived
in Harbin and then in Tokyo before coming to New York. I'd be especially
interested to hear from someone with a Siberia (Irkutsk) connection.
S nailuchshimi pozhelaniyami, Jerry
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Sender: star1@star.kirov.ru
Subject: Nastya
Hello, everybody! I am Russian girl. I am 13 years old. I learn English.
My hobbyes are dancing and music. I want to have friends from USA, Canada
or England. Write me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sender: Gbask@aol.com
Subject: George
I am interested in knowing what specific books would be helpful to Russian
teenagers. Particularly in the area of ethics, philosophy, religion. We
would like to translate and publish these books in Russian language for
sale in Russia. I am retired publisher.
George Baskin, Pensacola FL USA
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Sender: MHERMAN443@AOL.COM
Subject: Michael Herman
I'm planning a trip to Odessa in the Ukraine the middle of July. I wish to
bring so needed items for a local orphanage. Can you suggest some items
and the name of an orphanage in Odessa?
Thank you advance for your help.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Herman
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Sender: xenophyla@aol.com
Subject: Judith Twitchell
I am so excited to find this site. I met a troupe of Romanian folkdancers
and musicians from Cluj-Napoca a year ago when they finished their U.S.
tour with a performance in Kansas City. We had the pleasure of visiting
them a little longer since their stay was extended an extra day due to
their bus breaking down. I must say as a result of my visit with them, I
have become enamored of the Romanian people, music, culture, language, and
fascinated with the possibility of visiting what must be a truly beautiful
and pristine country! I am currently trying to learn to speak the language
althouth it is difficult on one's own with only books and tapes....
I would like to strongly sugget to Friends and Partners the possibility of
starting a Romanian chat room similar to the Russian-American chat room
already in existence, which I visit all too regularly. The R-A chat room
that you have developed is without any doubt the best chat room I have ever
visited....There is truly a spirit of international brotherhood and
friendship and love that is very strong in that room. It is not limited to
just Russians and Americans, but is visited by people from all over the
world.
I have tried visiting other Romanian chat rooms, and while I have in
general found the Romanian people I have come in contact with in various
situations to be genuinely warm, friendly, interesting, and loving people,
I must say that the Romanian chat rooms I have visited have at best been
uninterested in me, at worst downright mean and hateful to someone not of
their language and culture butting in. I know an endeavor on the part of F
& P would not have results like this....
Thank you so much for your efforts with this site, you have done a
marvelous job. God bless you with your continued efforts...
Judith Twitchell
Missouri USA
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Sender: betty lucas (bentbamboo@earthlink.net)
Subject: Please Post this.
Please Post this:
Dear Editor,
I am looking for stories from all over Russia about how couples meet for
a book I am writing called:
"In An Elevator... Where Else?" A book about how couples meet.
In search of zany, exotic, unusual, true stories for a book about how
couples meet called "In an Elevator...Where Else?" Please submit your
story to the following: email bentbamboo@earthlink.net or write: How We
Met, P.O. Box 1847 Big Bear Lake, CA 92315. Author will be notified if
story is chosen for publication and a picture may be requested.
A special chapter will be added with Russian stories. The book is
scheduled to come out by Feb. next year. Thank you for your
consideration. Please let me know if this is possible. Betty
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Sender: Michael Kupka (myck@carrot.com)
Subject: russian-jewish-law-nationality
On behalf of a friend of a friend
A 16 yr old in Canada has a Jewish father (mother not Jewish)
He's trying to get a passport with Jewish nationality.
Returning to Russia will put him in the army.
Time is of essence.
Can you please send URL that can resolve this cause.
They believe the law change in modern Russia.
Thanks
Michael
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Sender: "Vintik's Club" (vintik@vintik.net)
Subject: are you looking for penpals?
Vintik's American Russian Club, http://www.vintik.net, just added a new
PenPals Section to their Web page. If you are looking for penpals from
Russia or other countries, visit our Penpals section at
http://www.vintik.net/class/penpal/ and leave your message.
Thank you,
Vintik's Club, http://www.vintik.net
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Sender: "Roman" (szmis@mail.spbnit.ru)
Subject: Pen friends wanted
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Hello everyone! I find pen friends. I want to correspond with
English-speaking people for improve my English.
About me: I'm 26 years old male. I'm married and have a son. I live in a
village in Saint-Pitersburg (leningrad) area.
I'm an engineer and I work at Norht-West testing staition (we test
agriculture machines).
I learn English 2 months but I don't have practice.
If you are interested I can help you learn Russian.
Sincerly yours.
Roman
(Sorry for my English)
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Sender: gregbussey@mindspring.com
Subject: re: Abkahzia
Sorry, my address was messed up last week!
Still looking for correspondence with people from Abkahzia. Thanks! -Greg
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Sender: natasha (natasha@zgr.kts.ru)
Subject: Summer Language School 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 3rd, 1999, in
a picturesque suburban area of the largest Siberian city Novosibirsk.
The International Language Summer School has been organized by Linguistic
Gymnasia # 164 and the Department of Education of the city of Zelenogorsk
since 1995.
This year the 5th International Summer Language School will be housed
in the sanatorium on the Obskoe Sea shore, outside the city of
Novosibirsk. The sanatorium 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 3rd.
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: v_welton@hotmail.com
Subject: looking for friend from north of Russia - Kandalaksha
Name: Virginia Welton
Email-address: v_welton@hotmail.com
Hi. I have a question to ask and i do not know if you can
help me with the answer or not but I do not know where to go
for help. In 1992, I visited the town of Kandalaksha in the
north of Russia. I made friends with a young man named Sergei
Tzymbal ( I am not sure if the spelling is correct or not
because it was translated into English for me by another
person.) Anyway, we wrote letters for a few years until he
went into the army. By now, he should be out of the army and
when I have tried to write to him at his old address, I get no
response. I really want to talk to him again, but I do not
know how to go about finding him again. Is there any way that
you can help me find him or let me know if there is a service
that could help me find him? By the way, I have since been
married and have moved several times, so if he ahs tried to
write to me he would not know where I am either. He knew me as
Ginny Cady and I lived in Anahiem before he went into the
army. Can you help me? Forever grateful, Ginny
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Sender: "Heinrich Tann" (caesarevents3@hotmail.com)
Subject: Summer Party this Thursday, June 3rd, The RUSSIA HOUSE
You and your friends are invited to coolest party in D.C.
"SUMMER ROMANCE PARTY"
Thursday JUNE 3th
from (7:30 p.m. -- midnight)
At THE RUSSIA HOUSE
1800 Conn. Ave., NW
(at Florida and Conn. Aves. DuPont Circle)
Donation raffle: $7 men and $5 women
and win a $50 dinner certificate at the Russia House Restaurant
Dress code: cool and casual
Questions: 202-966-8651
For those interested in trying Russian cuisine,
there will be an abbreviated Russian menu.
visit our new website at http://www.eurasiacenter.org
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Sender: "Mark K. Cimini" (mark@linus.mitre.org)
Subject: A Question
Hello,
I chanced to visit your web page and was wondering
if you could answer a question for me. An on-line friend asked me
if a company, based in Russia, called '21st Century' would improve
the chances of obtaining a Visa. Any help or information would be
appreciated.
Mark Cimini
Lead Software Systems Engineer
phone: (718) 271-2785
fax: (718) 271-2721
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Sender: Edward Potereiko (Zymanio@concentric.net)
Subject: KO18
Hi,
I am using a PlanetWeb browser (fairly primitive).
It does not support Java or Javascript or many other
things.
I note in going to some other websites,
such as Ukrainet or ternopil/bitternet, that I sometimes
see pictures of parts or Ternopil or the Ukraine and the
captioning is in a script for the computer, with a lot of
"A" "O" "E" "I" and a lot of '''' lines usually near the
top.
I just got finished learning cyrillic script/alphabet and
have now run into this.
How do I read it?
I am using my son's Sega Saturn Game System, with the
aforementioned browser and a modem and PC Concepts keyboard
(standard American computer keyboard)
I have no harddrive or printer or any ability to download
files.
Please explain what I am looking at, how do people type it
in? and how do they read it?
and why wouldnt they just load in cyrillic fonts onto their
computer so as to be able to read it?
2. I know there is a site, from Altavista Babelfish, or
somesuch where a person can typ in up to 500 words or so
and hit "ENTER" and have his English translated to German,
Portugese, Spanish, French and vice-versa, at no charge and
instantaneously.
Is there anything available on the internet for Russian,
Ukrainian or Polish that you might be aware of to do the
same thing?
Edward Potereiko
edwardp@writeme.com
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Sender: Roobkqueen@aol.com
Subject: Family Schoen Njini, Dobrinka Russia
I am trying to find out about our Grandfather Johhan Heinrich Schoen born in
Dobrinka in 1889, he married in the USA in 1925. I know that he was a German
Russian Jew. It is unclear whether or not he was the only one of his family
to immigrate to the US. I am trying to find info about the family I know that
his fathers name is George Heinrich and wife's last name is Metzel. Any
suggestions about how to find out about the family as well as any goog
history book about the German Russian Jews, and where is Dobrinka?
Mindy Schoen
Roobkqueen@aol.com
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