RUSSIAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

FROM ALLAN MUSTARD, EMERGING DEMOCRACIES OFFICE, USDA

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RUSSIAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Following this short introduction is the text of a letter to the RUSAG-L readership from Viktor Lishchenko, Director of the Center for International Agribusiness of the Russian Government's Academy of the National Economy. Prof. Lishchenko was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. from 1968 to 1974 as agricultural attache and from 1974 to 1993 headed the Food and Agriculture Department of the Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada of the USSR (later Russian) Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he moved to the Academy of the National Economy, which is an educational institution for training mid- and upper-level managers and policy makers. Followers of Russian and Soviet agriculture will remember Viktor Fedorovich Lishchenko from his many years of active promotion of agricultural contacts between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. (and now Russia).

Prof. Lishchenko has organized a program of three-week seminars on agribusiness covering marketing, management, accounting, legal and economic issues of privatization, foreign trade, and finance. The intended audience is chairmen and directors of agricultural production and processing enterprises and agricultural entrepreneurs, as well as farmers. While most of the faculty consists of Russian instructors from the Academy, ACDI is also providing some visiting American professors under the Farmer-to- Farmer program. In comments to me this week, Prof. Lishchenko said that foreign participants are welcome, either as lecturers or as students (although students will be expected to pay the same tuition as everyone else, which is presently $250 for the three weeks).

Contact information for the Center is as follows: 

Center for International Agribusiness
Academy of the National Economy
prospekt Vernadskogo, 82
Moscow 117571
tel. (011-7-095) 436-5376, 434-5048
fax. (011-7-095) 882-0435, 433-2577, 434-9463 tlx. 411626 KARTA SU
The Center offers other services as well, as outlined in the following letter to RUSAG:

"We are teaching basic market disciplines to approximately 250 agricultural managers from all over Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and other former Soviet republics. Our students are looking not only for theoretical disciplines but also contacts with and knowledge of U.S. and western agricultural markets as buyers and sellers.