This is a page on which we hope to provide information on services of interest (shipping, mailing, transportation, translation, currency exchange, etc.) as well as provide a forum with which folks can express their need for such services.
This is fairly new but, based upon the suggestions we've seen for offering this, should be one of the faster growing areas of this server.
ACCESS RUSSIA brings together in one place the finest and most useful publications on Russia and the CIS, of both Western and Russian manufacture. In all, over 120 products of four dozen publishers and companies are featured on the pages of this on-line resource.
EAST VIEW PUBLICATIONS is the "worlds largest clearinghouse for publications from Russia, the CIS and Central Europe". In addition to their many publications (on-line and off) they also provide delivery and translation services.
TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE (TRWL) offers fast, reliable, and confidential electronic correspondence and document delivery service to Russia and other CIS countries. International correspondence through the Russian postal service is notably slow, and it is not always reliable. Using Registered US Air Mail, you can expect delivery in 4 - 8 weeks. TRWL can deliver a letter from the US to Moscow in 2-3 business days. While regular US International Air Mail is a little faster, less than 80% of the regular mail from the West reaches Russia. TRWL clients can expect delivery of 95% of their letters or better.
SISKIND AND SUSSER are lawyers in Nashville, TN who have experience with American Immigration and Nationality Law. In addition, Siskind has put together a free monthly immigration bulletin and has posted information about temporary visas, green cards, international adoptions plus more.
A&G NEWS SERVICE offers an email-based subscription to their focused news service. News summaries of information specially selected from all the main Russian newspapers by the A&G News Service are provided here.
OKAZIYA EXCHANGE -- In case you don't know, "OKAZIYA" means an opportunity to pass a letter or a parcel to/from Russia. You can use this page to request or offer an okaziya. The information you enter will be stored in a database, and when there is a match the person who needs an okaziya will be automatically notified by email. Send comments about this system to ilya_shl@mit.edu.
RUSSIA CONFIDENTIAL provides exclusive, inside information that corporate executives, political analysts, journalists and strategic-policy-making institutes need to properly assess political, social, economic and business conditions in one of the Word's largest markets... Russia.
INTERTRANS RUSSIA currently offers a seamless shipping network to the many corporations now expanding into this part of the world. The INTERTRANS/DIALOG FREIGHT team will give customers the benefit of local knowledge and hands-on service from the freight's origin to its final destination.
The Okno Group's WWW server contains information about consulting and trade services related to East Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as information on the Okno Group's publication, the East/West Letter.
PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION SERVICES offers accurate Ukrainian & Russian translation /interpreting/3 way calling services with competitive pricing and fast turnaround. P.T.S. provides image scanning, OCR and desktop publishing services using custom cyrillic typefaces. P.T.S. has the expertise and custom software to send and receive cyrillic Russian e-mail through the world-wide Internet.
TRANSLATION SERVICE GROUP of Science Applications International Corporation offers their translation and interpretation services in both Russian and Ukrainian and they are seeking to provide these services to any companies or individuals. Their Russian Relation Specialists, who are skilled engineers, are very familiar with US and Russian scientific and space programs.
CyberSales is a WWW shopping catalog that gives you the opportunity to order RUSSIAN LACQUER BOXES or RUSSIAN PORCELAIN TEAPOTS from Gamble Trading Company.
The INTERNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS CONSORTIUM (ISBC) has the mission of creating and providing an international infrastructure for small businesses as the world moves towards a "borderless international economy". ISBC was formed so people with Internet (or at least e-mail) access could use their expertise to provide a service to those businesses that do not have Internet access.
Dr. Petrus Johannes van de Waal Palms offers his consulting services from our Classified's section. PALMS' PORTAL TO RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPE offers the consulting services of Dr. Palms and the The Palms Portal is extensive and the links will be expanded rapidly throughout the year.
RESUMES & POSITIONS WANTED offers a listing of jobs wanted and resumes related to work between our countries.
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su - OR - gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Last Modified October 5, 1995