What's New

This page is offered to help keep all interested subscribers up-to-date on the progress of this service's development. Notice of new additions and significant changes will be posted here as they are made.

February 1, 1994

• The interactive 'coffee house' (or 'talk-room') where interactive discussion can be posted is now available. There are several 'rooms' devoted to specific topics but you can also create your own 'part of the mansion'. Thanks to Dirk-Willem Van Gulik, a student in the Department of Biophysics at Twente University in Holland, for putting together this very innovative addition to the F&P server.
• Wayne Chinander, a Ph.D. student of Russian history at the University of Kansas has put together a very important database of information which is available by telnetting to ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu and providing a login of ex-ussr. Lots of good information here -- including files of current leaders of the various FSU republics, sources of on-line info and e-mail addresses in the FSU. A hook to this has been provided from the "More Information Resources" page.
• An excellent new WWW server has just been announced by Serge Naumov at the University of North Carolina. Called "Dazhdbog's Grandsons" (as Sergei tells us the ancient Russians called themselves), this server is definitely worth the trip! Make sure to go to "EXHIBITIONS" and then on to Moscow. Lots of beautiful photographs and other interesting information. A hook to this has been provided from the "More Information Resources" page.

January 31, 1994

• Changed the initial graphic map. Moved the "Cuisine" section to the "Life" section and added a new 'button' for "More Information Resources".
• One of the items pointed to by "More Information Resources" is Vadim Maslov's excellent FTP archive of Russian-related information.
• Added a whole series of documents from the "Funding Opportunities" section on the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) - an organization devoted to encouraging / facilitating collaborative and intellectual exchanges between the scholarly communities in America and in the successor states to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Thanks to Tony Byrne of IREX for this information. There is a fascinating article here entitled "Boosting the Baud Rate: Email and Connectivity in the Former Soviet Union".
• Added a new "Health Care Issues" page from the "Life" section. This is the first step towards creating a forum for discussion and information sharing on medical and health care issues.
• New hook to American Political Science Association Gopher from the Economics/Business page.

January 27, 1994

• The RFE/RL daily postings are updated through January 27.
• The full text of US President Bill Clinton's state of the union address is now available under the News section.
• Some fascinating material on the Global University and the U.S.-Russia Electronic Distance Education System (EDES) are available from the Education page.

January 25, 1994

• News Service. The RFE/RL daily postings are now being archived under the news section.
• Weather information for Moscow and St. Petersburg has been updated (this should soon be done automatically each day).
• Server statistics (including access by country) are now included as an option from the home page.
• Current exchange rates of the Russian Rouble have been updated (on the economics page).
• Notice of the The Financial / Economic Network has been added to the economics page as well as a description of the The Russian Graduate School of International Business.
• A hook to the very interesting World Wide Web server about the East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction has been added to the Funding Opportunities page. This server also contains hooks to serveral other resources on Russia.