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From: Konstantin Berdichevsky
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Russian-speaking system 7 for Macs.
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FYI -
Some of you might be interested to know that Apple created a bunch of
System 7 clones for different languages, including Irish Gaelic and
Russian. I don't know for sure, but my understanding is that
it is not GA software at this time in this country. It arrived on
"Apple Developer Group
Developer CD Series January 1994
System Software edition".
Along with that there is a "System folder picker", which allows you to have
several System Folders, and "pick" any of them for the restart.
Russian system includes several True Type (i.e. smooth) russian fonts, and a
facility to choose Russian or US keyboard.
Translations are not perfect - "Desktop" is "Stol", and "Double click speed"
is "Zazor dvoinogo schelchka".
I haven't played with it too much, but the resulting mixture of languges
seems to me rather annoying - since current applications don't support
this multicultural effort.
Anyway, it can be useful for somebody (I'm going to install Irish Gaelic
on my collegue's Quadra while he is revelling in his Ireland).
Have fun and Happy New Years and Xmases!
Konstantin Berdichevsky(KB@MITVMA.MIT.EDU)
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EU Euroconference programme ``Applied Nonlinear Dynamics'' and CNRS
Workshop
NONLINEAR EXCITATIONS IN BIOMOLECULES
CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE DES HOUCHES (France)
May 30 - June 4, 1994
Scientific committee: M. Peyrard (ENS Lyon), M. Barthes (University of
Montpellier), G. Careri (University of Rome), P. Christiansen (Technical
University of Denmark, Lyngby), J. Krumhansl (Cornell and University of
Massachusetts), C. Reiss (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris), A.C. Scott
(University of Tucson and Technical University of Denmark), G. Tsironis
(Research Center and University of Crete)
In the last few years, many attempts have been made to use ideas coming
from nonlinear physics (solitons, nonlinear energy localization for
instance) to model some biological processes like energy storage and
transport in proteins, DNA conformational changes and thermal
denaturation, etc.
Nonlinear excitations, which are exceptionally stable, immune to
perturbations and build-up spontaneously in many systems, appear as
interesting candidates to explain some of these molecular processes.
However, although they are promising, current physical models need
further developments and experimental testing before they can be used
to solve actual problems encountered in biology. This cannot be achieved
without a close cooperation between theoretical and experimental
physicists and biologists.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together PHYSICISTS AND BIOLOGISTS
to identify the problems in which nonlinear physics could contribute to
biology in a relevant manner. Therefore, in addition to the presentation
of recent research results, the conference will be organized around long
lectures in each field, in order to introduce the important notions and
stimulate discussions. Invited lecturers for these tutorials include
A.R. Bishop (Los Alamos), H. Frauenfelder (Urbana-Champaign and Los
Alamos), A. Garcia (Los Alamos), J. Krumhansl (Cornell and University of
Massachusetts), R. Lavery (Paris), W. Mentele (Freiburg), C. Reiss
(Paris), A.C. Scott (Tucson and Lyngby)
Les Houches is a resort village in the Chamonix valley of the french
Alps. Established in 1951, the school is located in a group of mountain
chalets surrounded by meadows and woods at 1000 m elevation. It is
ideally located for mountaineering or touring as well as intellectual
pursuits. In an effort to favor concentrated discussions and lively
interactions, the number of participants will be limited to
approximately 40 and we hope to have a good balance between physicists
and biologists.
The fee of 3400 FF will cover registration and full board lodging during the
school.
Grants to contribute to registration, travel and subsistence expenses of
young researchers of the European Union through the Euroconference
programme will be available. The deadline for receiving the final
application for support is February 15, 1994. Interested researchers are
urged to enquire as soon as possible for the application forms.
If you wish to receive further notices regarding this conference please
contact M. Peyrard, Conference Biomolecules, Laboratoire de Physique,
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46 Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex
07, France, (Fax: +33 72 72 80 80), preferably by e-mail at the address
bioconf@physique.ens-lyon.fr
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Date: 8 Jan 94 11:38:00 CST
From: "IGOLNIKOV EDWARD "
Subject: INFO-RUSS: i-20.
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Hi everyone!
This question for those who used I-20 student visa to come here.
I am going to make it to my friend in Russia and my concern whether
or not U.S. consulate can deny it as it happened so often whith the
guest visa's.
If so how we can avoid this kind of problem? Have anybody heard that
people have problem to come here using I-20 visa?
Happy New Year! Edward Igolnikov. Chicago DePaul University.
>From DEUPREE@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU Sat Jan 8 13:13 EST 1994
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From: "John C. Deupree"
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Phrases in Russian
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A friend of mine is a junior high school teacher and is working on a grant
proposal to take 8 junior high students to Russia this year as part of an
exchange program. She is going to take a model of a spacecraft, demonstrating
a joint Amerian/Russia space venture. She is looking for a Russian phrase to
describe the project. She is thinking of something like: Earth Watch, or
Space Study, or Environmental ... There are probably some specialized Russian
phrases that I wouldn't know just by looking up words in the dictionary. I
have suggested Space Study (kosmicheskoe izuchenie or kosmicheski izucheniya ,
plural).
Are my translations accurate? Are can someone suggest something better?
I appreciate any help anyone can give.
John
John C. Deupree, Registrar | Internet: deupree@wcuvax1.wcu.edu
Western Carolina University | BITNET: deupree@wcuvax1.bitnet
201 H. F. Robinson Building | Voice: (704) 227-7232
Cullowhee, NC 28723 (USA) | Facsimile: (704) 227-7217
>From sablin@itsa.ucsf.EDU Thu Jan 13 18:57 EST 1994
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From: sablin@itsa.ucsf.EDU (Sergey Sablin)
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Hello, folks:
Can anybody recommend an immigration lawyer in Bay Area
(around San Francisco) for getting a Green Card.
My email: sablin@itsa.ucsf.edu
Thank you in advance,
Sergey Sablin.
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HI! Does anyone know if the language institute in Pyatigorsk has access
to e-mail? I would appreciate any responses. My e-mail address is:
lcheath@acs.harding.edu
Thank you!
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From: sasha@smarty.ece.jhu.edu (Alexander E. Kaplan)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 20:44:58 EST
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Dear folks,
The info-russ is back; I am opening it a bit earlier than I actually
promised. It is snowing&raining here, in Baltimore, hope you've got
a nicer weather. The fellas in California got the worst luck: a 6.6
earthquake is no fun. Our esteemed Don Alejandro Nalpak sent me a note
suggesting that that earthquake is a test of new Russian weapon
announced recently by Mr. Zhirinovsky and launched by Russ-military as
a revenge for Mr. Clinton's refusal to meet him while in Moscow. Who
knows; the crazy hidalgo has been right sometimes...:-)
Anyway, those of you guys who've got a first-hand experience with
that earthquake, please send us your reports. And let the luck be with
you as well as with the rest of Californians; stay in one piece.
In a short while I am going to broadcast a few IR-postings that
accumulated while I've been away. My best,
--Alex Kaplan, INFO-RUSS owner/coordinator
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From: Eli Birnbaum
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Internet and Russian
To: Alexander Kaplan
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The Student & Academics Department
The World Zionist Organization
birnbaum@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il
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Shalom,
The Student and Academic Department of the World Zionist
Organization has initiated three international electronic mail
services.
Our goal is to disseminate directly the most updated information
about the work/study programs available in Israel for both
tourists and immigrants.
The information sent out directly to subscribers of the Lists and
is afterwards stored in an indexed, easily accessible e-mail
gopher. The Gopher is found on the Jerusalem One Network.
Presently we are working in three languages, English, French, and
Spanish. We are planning to offer our services in Russian. What
is the current situation regarding Internet and the Russian
language? Is it possible to receive a list of people and address
in which we can contact about this project.
Sincerely yours,
Eli Birnbaum
WZO Student & Academics Department
birnbaum@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il
8 Karen Kayemet Ph: 9722 202296 202319
P.O.B. 92 91000 Fax: 9722 252829
Jerusalem, Israel
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I am posting the following two paragraphs from president Clinton's
remarks in live telecast to Russian people at Ostankino TV Station in
Moscow on January 14, 1994. (my emphasis -BK).
Boris Katz
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And I will close as I began: Will you define your
future greatness in terms that were relevant to the past or terms
that will shape the future? This is a crossroad, and a difficult
one. But the younger generations of Russians will look back on
this time with either gratitude or regret, depending on how those
questions are answered -- the economic, the political, the
military questions.
I believe you will choose the future. After all,
RUSSIA DID NOT GET TO THIS POINT BY MAKING ALL THAT MANY WRONG
DECISIONS IN THE PAST. And every nation makes A FEW MISTAKES.
There are few people anywhere that have more knowledge of
history, both positive and negative, that have more reason to
hope for the future than you do. I know the present is
difficult, but if you make the right decisions, if you choose
hope over fear, then the future will reward your courage and your
vision.
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Hi, everybody,
Does anybody have experience in traveling to Russia with the
INS travel document for the US permanent residents. Is it
difficult being a Russian citizien to get an entry visa in
the Russian embassy. Do I need the invitation from Russia, etc?
I'll appreciate any advice.
Thanks in advance, Alex Malkin
e-mail adress: alsov@ucrac1.ucr.edu
phone: 909-787-3397
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From: mikeg@lism.usc.edu (Michael A. Gruntman)
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In response to requested report from sunny Southern California.
Ne vse kotu maslennitsa. It cannot be so that somebody
is in cold blizard weather and others are only enjoying
the sun and blue (well, somewhat hazy) sky.
6.6 is no fun, that's right. You probably know details from
TV. In short, we were very, very lucky that it hit during
the night (4:31 am). Otherwise the number of killed would
have easily been in thousands. Several multi-layer (5-6 stores)
parking structures near major shopping malls completely
flattened. Roofs of a couple of major department stortes collapsed.
And several freeway crossings and bridges would have turned
usually speeding motorists in a bloody mess. Thanks Almighty,
it was early in the morning. (Death toll as it stands now - 33).
Practical consequences are no power, no gas, no hot water in some
areas (it is patchy geography) for next few days-two weeks.
Several freeways are closed. I remember how I cursed every time
when I visited San Francisco and tried to go through detours to
get around destroyed (by erathquacke in 1989) parts of freeways in
Oakland/Berkeley. L.A. is no San Francisco (even our numerous
pinky liberals rarely ride share or use public transport:-) -
we will have this pain in the neck at full.
Aftershocks are continuing all the time (they are expected to continue
for a week or two). Some statistics: during 24 hours after the
quake there we more than 100 (!) shocks stronger than 3.0 (Richter scale)
and more than a dozen stronger than 4.0. Three were stronger than five.
It is a typical pattern for the major quake. It is trembling all the time,
so I was awaken during this night maybe 10-15 times. The good thing is that
with the passage of time the probability that this 6.6 jolt was actually
a PRESHOCK of the really BIG (>8.0) one decreases exponentially. So,
it looks that the worst is behind.
My apartment was probably typical (I live 15 miles from the epicenter
in Santa MOnica): everything unsecured fell down (TV set, computer,
book shelf, glasses, plates, .... ) It was quite a mess. Actually
these objects did not allow me to get out of my apartment in the dark until
everything was over. I found quickly the flashlight (I have my backpack fully
packed because of ocasional mountain hikes) and with couple of neighbors
we turned off gas and water for the whole apartment house. And then we
were just "socializing" for couple hours. 200 m from us fire destroyed
apartment building but firefighters were able to prevent the fire from
spreading. They were doing their job very professionally and there was no
opportunity to help them.
It looks like all for today. Many folks stayed at home today.
We will clean the mess and soon (I have it already) smiles will be again
on our faces.
Cheers,
Misha / Mike Gruntman
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OFFICE MEMO Bad Gate? Date:1/19/94
Hi, zemlyaki!
Za oknom - minus dvadcat' Celsija, a u menya nelovkij vopros: ne mogu probit'
svoj e-mail po adresu: nekto@sovam.com. Pri etom ja poluchaju poslanija ottuda
ispravno! S drugimi adresatami v sojuze u menja nikakih problem net - sv'az'
dvustoronn'aja, a s etoj "sovam.com." dazhe 'return mail' ne furychit. Put'
prihod'aschego messag'a vygl'adit tak: "Received: from scylla.sovam.com by
pandora.sf.ca.us, etc...". Pomogite radi boga! Pozarez nuzhno! Esli est'
sovety, pishite, pozhalujsta, pr'amo mne: strunnikov@mail1.ciwemb.edu. Spasibo.
Sasha Strunnikov, g. Baltimorsk.
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From: WAYNEC@KU9000.CC.UKANS.EDU
Subject: INFO-RUSS: parliament & constitution
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To all netters,
I am slowly editing my database (ex-ussr) to reflect the new situation in
Russia. I will leave the old files for historical interest and upload new
Who's Who and Russia files. I would like to include new files that list all
deputies to the new houses of parliament and another file with an English
version of the new constitution. Does anyone have the constitution or list
of parliament members on file they could share?
The database remains available at: (telnet to) ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
login: ex-ussr
Thanks, and welcome back Sasha!
Wayne Chinander, University of Kansas
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Dear friends,
As I have wrote many times, my bandwith is close to saturation,
and some of the subjects, in particular visa-passport-taxes, must go.
Somebody should start a new news-group on these subjects.
Unfortunatelly, I'll be unable to carry visa-passport-taxes anymore;
(except the cases I deem important -- strictly to my own discretion).
I want the msg below to be the last one. Anybody who decided to
start a new group will have my support in the form of broadcasting
announcements and related msg. You may also want to be aware that
Alexander Krotov was willing to start
some sort of information vehicle for all the sov-visa-pasport related
issues, so write to him. The only thing I can do is to provide anybody
who is interested in starting a new group, with the list of people who
submitted their posting on visa-passport-taxes after this announcement
(if they don't mind it:-), such that such a person will have the list
of subscribers to start with. Best,
--Alex Kaplan, INFO-RUSS owner/coordinator
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Dear netters:
Does anybody have an experience of being here on a student (F-1) visa and
being called for an interview to Moscow for refugee status at the same time?
Is it possible to return here with a student entry visa after the interview,
in order to avoid termination of study? Is it easier to get such a visa in
a third country than in Russia?
I`ll appreciate any advices and suggestions.
Please reply directly to me: alexschw@eng.umd.edu
Thank you in advance.
Sasha
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From: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu (Greg Cole)
Subject: INFO-RUSS:announcement of new information service
Status: O
Some of you may find of interest the following announcement of a new
information service devoted to US-Russian-East-European issues. This is
brand new and has a lot of 'growing up' to do. But we are very hopeful of
ideas and contributions from the members of this list.
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Friends and Partners
>From Russia and from America comes a new information service called
"Friends and Partners" -- one of the first information systems jointly
developed by citizens of these two nations.
It is hoped that it will contribute towards better understanding between
our nations by providing instruction on our countries and cultures, by
providing a common base of information about issues affecting relations
between our countries, and by providing a common 'meeting place' where
folks can find and communicate with each other.
If you wish to visit, the following uniform resource locator (URL)
will allow you to connect to the World Wide Web server:
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
At the moment, it is more a 'framework' of an information system --
more 'heart' than substance. The goal is to help others build upon
the framework -- to create and link together information on our
nation's histories; our art, music, literature, and religion; our
educational and scientific resources; our geography and natural
resources, our languages; and our opportunities for communicating,
travelling, and working together. The 'end product' -- an evolving
and continually changing information resource -- should be useful to
many and will hopefully help bridge the gap of understanding that
exists between our nations. It will hopefully also demonstrate the
potential for good that exists with this wonderfully chaotic, global
resource we call the Internet.
What are the potential uses? Scientists should be able to use the service
to find information about funding opportunities and exchange programs,
access various databases and library resources, and locate potential
colleagues and co-workers. Teachers and educators at all levels should be
able to find and contribute interesting and up-to-date material to assist
in their instruction -- making their courses more 'alive' and more
pertinent to real world issues. Folks in business should be able to learn
about the economic environment and opportunities in both countries as well
as the rules and laws pertaining to conducting business. Artists from all
fields (and their patrons) should be able to learn about, meet and work
with each other. And people from all walks of life should be able to learn
more about these two nations -- so closed off from one another for so many
years.
The primary motivation of this service is to help introduce new
friendships and partnerships between our peoples. It hopes to build
upon the excellent work already being accomplished by our governments
and by the various groups, centers, and institutes who have been
working for so many years towards this same goal of cooperation and
friendship.
Perhaps the only difference from other efforts is the intention to use
the World Wide Web on the Internet as the method of communicating
information. The World Wide Web was chosen because of its ability to
handle mixed media (text, graphics, audio, etc.), the excellent
graphic and non-graphic browsers available for free on the Internet,
and its ability to 'integrate' information from all of the best
Internet-based tools and utilities -- Listservers, Gophers, WAIS
indexes, FTP archives, etc.
If you do not have a WWW browser, you can use our 'friends' account. Telnet
to solar.rtd.utk.edu. At the login: prompt, enter friends and press return
(make sure to enter friends in all lower case). This will place you in a
non-graphic WWW browser called 'Lynx' (on-line help is available).
(Note: you must be emulating a vt100 terminal to use this method of
access.)
We will soon be providing a 'mirror' of this server in Pushchino, Russia
(near Moscow) on the computer of co-developer Natasha Bulashova. This will
be perhaps the first information system of its kind in Russia. One of the
most exciting developments underway in Pushchino is the development of a
'virtual network' of biological sciences information. This is being
designed to be a global information resource on biological sciences
research and will be offered soon as a part of this overall service.
Efforts will soon begin to establish both servers in Russian and English
languages.
We have established an electronic mailing list (listserver) to help
facilitate communication for this project. Please feel most free to join by
sending a message to listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu with the following text:
SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS Your name
This is a moderated list with which one 'digest' of all postings will be
sent to subscribers each day.
Please send us your comments, criticisms, suggestions (and
offers of help! :-) ).
Natasha Bulashova Greg Cole
Pushchino, Moscow Region Knoxville, Tennessee
Russia USA
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
P.S. We hope to quickly broaden the scope of this server to incorporate
information and communication with all of the newly independent states of
the former Soviet Union. The information content of this server must
reflect a much larger constituency than just our two nations and we should
work towards that end. (but, of course, one step at a time . . . )
Greg Cole
Research Services
The University of Tennessee Phone: (615) 974-2908
211 Hoskins Library FAX: (615) 974-6508
Knoxville, TN 37996 Email: gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu
>From INFO-RUSS-request@smarty.ece.jhu.edu Thu Jan 20 14:17:08 EST 1994
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From: Mike Gruntman
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: LA update
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Status: O
20 January, Thursday
11 am PST
LA Update
Nothing exciting (sorry about that) - so, I hope, this is the
LAST UPDATE.
Life is becoming more and more normal (e.g. my neighbor said to me this
morning that it was the first night he slept during last five days),
although curfew is still in place (from 11 pm to dawn, a difference
from dusk to dawn in the beginning). Following the text-book pattern,
a sequence of aftershocks continues. Sometime, pretty big shocks as
two 5.2 shocks yesterday. But they are becoming less and less
frequent with time.
Practically all big companies resumed their work. UCLA has completely
opened this morning; USC was open all the time, although night
clases are cancelled because of curfew. CalState Northridge, very
close to the epicenter, suffered large structural damage and is closed
until next week. It will require substantial repairs on campus.
Many schools were badly hit and all of them are closed until next week.
Damage assessment is in progress and it is believed that about 200
of 2000 scholls of the LA Unified School District (second largest in
the nation) will remain closed for major repairs for couple months.
Problems with damaged freeways are seriously affecting life of many
commuters (which is equivalent in LA to people. Do not forget
that two persons in a car is a carpool in LA and eligible for
diamond bar lane on freeways, compared to 3 in S.F. or 4 in D.C.).
It will take a week or so for new traffic pattern to emerge while
we will be trying ti find optimal routes to get to places.
Death toll stands now at 47; among them 8 heart attacks attributed
by the coroner's office to the quake. Damage estimates vary from 7 B$
to 30 B$ (B = billion) (for comparison California's budget is
55 B$/year or ATT's annual revenues are 22 B$). About 50 thousand
(including my apartment complex) residences do not have natural gas
which often means also no hot water. In some areas there are still
no power and water (it will take up to two weeks more to fix it);
water is required to be boiled everywhere. There are still some
glitches in telephone networks; many people from outside could not
reach LA and within LA, from some areas you cannot get connections to
certain ares.
People are assessing their losses. Cosmetic damage to building is
extensive and widespread (i.e. chimneys, attics, staircases, brick
fences, gargouilles, etc. - what is called in Russian 'malye
arkhitekturnye formy'). My neighbor had 60 crystal glasses -
only 3 are left. I was lucky: my TV set fell down on the (rolled
out a moment earlier) bottle of Metaxa (Greek 'anisovyi' liquer)
and smashed it by its screen. Carpet smell terrible (or
terrific :-) ! ). Many people lost their chinas, vases,
acquariums, plates, windows. Many shop windows are broken.
At Wilshire (main street in LA) in Santa Monica and at posh
Montana street evry fourth/fifth shop window was broken.
A famous Santa Monica Promenade was virtually trashed by heaps of
bricks and plaster, but supprisingly not much of the structural
damage. Although it depended on the particular buildings. For
example, an apartment complex (about 20 units, incidentally
owned by a Russian and with 100 % Russian tenants - you
should have paid some undertable because of rent control) 30
meters from my house was ordered to be evacuated because of
structural damage.
So, it is almost behind us as always, in the Great State of California
we are poised again for thriving (not surviving only). Actually the
quake may worsen our economy. The real estate morket, badly hit by
recession and economy slump, was showing some signs of life recently.
The quake will definitely bring it to a standstill for a month and
many deals, even in escrow, will be reversed.
Anyway, if Paris had not already had it a sits motto (on a coat of arms)
- FLVCTVAT NEC MERGITVR (beaten by waves but afloat), LA would have
qualified for it, very easily.
With a smaile, tan, and other Californian prerequisites,
Truly yours,
Mike / Misha Gruntman
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From: "Dr. Sergey Broude" <0004411000@mcimail.com>
To: info-russ
Subject: INFO-RUSS: travelers
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Status: O
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry works with former Soviet
citizens to help their friends and relatives. We are
often called upon to find travelers to bring messages,
letters, medicine, food, etc. We are seeking travelers
from the U.S. and Canada only. Please contact us if
you are going to the FSU if you are interested in
helping. We are not specifying particular cities,
because we never know where the next plea for help
is going to come from. We look forward to hearing
from you.
Sheila Galland
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From: tolja@maya.geo.uu.se (Anatoli Belonoshko)
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Internet in Moscow?
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Dear Comuniti-sts,
I would appreciate any information about possibility to work
in Internet from Moscow. Preferably not very expensive way to do that.
I mean not the possibility for e-mail exchange but the real one to
login in the computer which is located e.g. in Sweden and run programs
on "western" computers.
Please reply directly to me: tolja@maya.geo.uu.se
Tolja Belonoshko
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From: Mark Markish x2799
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Re: The name for the Space project
Status: O
Someone has asked for the proper Russian translation of a name
for the space exploration project, like "Earth Watch" or
"Environmental Observer", on behalf of a group of American
students going on an exchange trip to Russia.
The name should be
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>From INFO-RUSS-request@smarty.ece.jhu.edu Fri Jan 21 18:41:35 EST 1994
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From: sasha@smarty.ece.jhu.edu (Alexander E. Kaplan)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 18:41:32 EST
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Friends,
I need an e-mail connection to the Botkinskaya Bol'nitsa in Moscow
(at this point, any of its departments will do). Can anybody help
me with that?
--Alex (Sasha) Kaplan
INFO-RUSS owner/coordinator
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 16:37:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Alex Freed
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Cyrillic fonts, etc.
To: info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu
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Sorry if this question belongs to a different list. Unfortunately I don't
know a better place to ask.
1. Occasionaly there is an email message in Russian encoded in one 8 bit
code or another. I have found X11 fonts that let me view such a file. The
question is, is there an easy way to PRINT it? Is there a PostScript font
that can be downloaded to a printer, for example?
2. I once heared a reference to an ftp server that has a lot of Cyrillic
tools and even some texts in Russian, like the new Russian Constitution. I
can't find that reference, and I don't have archie. Does anyone know where
this archive is?
Thanks.
--
-Alex
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From: Norma Jo Baker
Subject: INFO-RUSS:Urgent: Apt. in NYC for emigrants
To: info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu
Status: O
Fellow netters,
I am requesting your help in finding emergency accomodations for a family
of 6 that is emigrating from Belarus. They will be arriving this Tuesday,
January 25, in New York City. Plans for an apartment have fallen through,
and if anyone knows of an available apartment in the Brooklyn/Brighton Beach
area that they could use for 1-2 weeks (or even better if something more
permanent could be found) PLEASE write to me immediately at
njbaker@vm1.yorku.ca
or telephone me collect 416-650-2107. (unfortunately, I only speak English).
These are good people (my relatives) and we are grateful for any help that
you may be able to give.
Sincerely,
Norma Jo Baker
Toronto, Canada
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From: Yuri Saveliev
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: A letter from Ukraine/Australia
To: info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 16:46:45 +1100 (EST)
Cc: info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu, ysavelie@metz.une.edu.au (Yuri Saveliev)
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Dear folks:
I recently received a letter (sent in September last year!)
from my Ukrainian friend. Having received a huge heap of
correspondence from my friends in different states of
former S.U., I think this letter reflects an outlook on
post-Soviet life which seems to be quite common in the
medium of those people who are not belonging to "the
business circuits" for different reasons. It's not an
informative message but I hope for some people it may be
interesting.
Thanks for taking time to read it.
Best regards
Yuri Saveliev
Physics Department
University of New England
N.S.W. 2351
AUSTRALIA
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Zdravstvui, dalekiy drug!
Khochiu srazu tebia predupredit', chto pisat' ya budu
sumburno, bez khronologii: tak nazyvayemyie "nieprichiosan-
nyie mysli". Ya ponial davno, chto ot besporiadka v sumkie
ili v kvartirie do besporiadka v golovie - odin shag, a
yesli krugom besporiadok, to v golovie i podavno. Proshli
letniye kanikuly, kotoryie ya prosidel doma v priamom
smyslie, a v golovie opiat' besporiadok. Khochiu vyrazit'sia
kak-to pokrepchie o tom, chto proiskhodit vokrug, no pis'mo
budet idti slishkom dolgo.
Napominayu tebie, chto ya student tretiego kursa
Poltavskogo meditsinskogo instituta (lechebnyi fakul'tet)...
Na zaniatiyakh v insitutie dayut ochen' malo, mozhno
schitat', chto uchus' na 2/3 zaochno. Khodim v institut dlia
togo, chtoby otvietit' domashnieie zadaniye i poluchit'
otmietku, poetomu chasto yezzhu domoi. Za to vriemya, chto
proshlo poslie tvoyego ot'yezda, ya okonchatel'no ponial,
chto poterial vsiekh druzei, kogo fizicheski, a kogo
moral'no. Vsie krugom spivayutsia i delayut eto osobenno
staratel'no, mozhno skazat' metodicheski: na vtoroi-tretiy
god zloupotriebleniya alkogoliem - yavno vyrazhennyi
pokhmel'nyi sindrom, narushenie povedeniya v sostoyaniyi
op'yaneniya, poterya kolichestviennogo i situatsionnogo
kontrolya i t.d... Gotovliu yedu sebie sam: malo, vkusno i
raznoobrazno (po vozmozhnosti), eto v osnovnom ochen'
prostyie bliuda (kashi, postnyie supy, ovoschnyie ragu,
pechionyie yabloki i t.d.). Starayus' po vozmozhnosti
priderzhivat'sia printsipa razdel'nogo pitaniya. Khozhu na
zaniatiya peshkom (5 km). Zhivu na kvartirie (snimayu
komnatu s pozhiloi khoziaykoi. Plachiu za eto 40000 kuponov
v mesiats. Za chto - nie ponimayu. Polchischia tarakanov,
kot gadit v kvartire, vody niet cherez dien', gazovaya plita
pochemu-to b'yotsia tokom, khoziayka podsmatrivayet v
vannuyiu, kapayet s tualietnogo bachka priamo... vniz.
Stipendiya - 20000 k. v mesiats. Dlia sravnieniya: bilet do
Kiyeva stoit 5500, a na avtobusie 10000 k. Ot takogo bytiya
portitsya soznaniye. Ya ponial, chto na moyi "zolotyie gody"
nichego khoroshego nie budet. I nie tol'ko na "zolotyie
gody", no i na vsiu ostavshuyusia zhizn'. Ekonomika mozhet i
podtianetsia, a liudi nie izmenyatsya. Vsio eto nastol'ko
povliyalo na menya, chto ya perestal boyat'sya smerti.Chasto
prikhodiat mysli: na vsio pliunut' i okunut'sya v besprobud-
noye pyanstvo, pit' bez tormozov, do upora, chasto, po-mnogu
v uzkoi i nadiozhnoi kompaniyi. No nastanet vremya, znayu, i
za vsio eto pridetsya platit' (po nashim tsenam). Perechital
napisannoye i ponyal, chto poluchayetsia nie pis'mo, a
kakaya-to gigantskaya ob'yasnitel'naya zapiska ili, skoreye,
stranitsy iz dnievnika. NIE mogu privyknut', chto pishu
tebie v Avstraliyu. Dumayu, chto privyknu. Khochetsia pisat'
mnogo, no pomnish kak govoril Shtirlits o pis'mie, kotoroye
napisal v kafe levoi rukoi na frantsuzskom yazykie zhenie:
"...to, chto ya napisal, nie stoit vezti cherez tri
granitsy..." Nie znayu, stoit li mnie pisat' ETO, a tebie
ponimat'? Dlia togo li ty uyekhal pod chuzhiye sozvezdiya?
Narushat' zakon entropiyi... Ya stal fatalistom. Igrayu v
sportloto, nie propuskayu ni odnogo tirazha. Nastroyen k
zhizni misticheski, zhdu kakogo-to chuda ( Preduprezhdayut
psikhiatry i psikhologi, chto v usloviyakh glubokogo
ekonomicheskogo krizisa mozhet nastupit' raspad nie tol'ko
vsiego obschestva v tselom, no i desorganizatsiya otdel'noi
lichnosti s yavleniyami infantilizma).
G.M., 16.09.93
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From: dxf10@po.CWRU.Edu (Dmitry Fyodorov)
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Job wanted
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Hi, netters!
A friend of mine asked me to post the following message.
He is a recent emigrant from Russia and is looking for a position in
one of the U.S. universities at, say, Research Assistant level. He
currently resides in Cleveland, OH and is ready to relocate.
Name: Vladimir Asnin.
Age: 52.
Education: Ph.D., Physics (actually Doctor Phys-Mat Nauk).
Previous employment: Ioffe Physico-Technicheskij Institute, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Scientific interests: Physics (optical properties) of semiconductors.
Optoelectronics. Low-dimensional semiconductor structures.
As a first step in his job hunting he is eager to give a talk
"Quantum size effects in photoluminescence of porous silicon" if the
invitor could arrange his transportation expenses being covered.
If you can help, please reply directly to me at
dxf10@po.cwru.edu (the fifth letter is zero).
Thank you in advance,
Dmitry Fyodorov
Neuroscience Dept.
Case Western Reserve University
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From: "Lyudmila Nemtsev: (312)702-7467"
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I am working at present time at the University of
Chicago as a programmer maintaining and programming
financial databases using 'C' and Ingres.
In November 1992 I graduated from DePaul University of
Chicago with MS in CS.
I need to relocate to a warmer place. If anybody can
help please help.
My home phone is (708)733-0914. Work phone is (312)702-7467.
Internet: CRSP_LN@GSBVAX.UCHICAGO.EDU
Thank you very much.
Lyudmila
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MIRZAYANOV'S TRIAL OPENS IN MOSCOW. The trial of the scientist Vil
Mirzayanov opened in Moscow on 24 January, according to Russian TV
newscasts and news agencies. Mirzayanov was detained by the
Ministry of Security in the fall of 1992 on the charge of
disclosing state secrets. Writing in Baltimore's The Sun, as well
as in the liberal Russian weeklies Moscow News and New Times,
Mirzayanov had claimed that Russia was working on a nerve gas ten
times as deadly as a similar US weapon, and that the chemical in
question had been tested after President Yeltsin said during his
state visit to Washington in January 1992 that his country would
stick to a US-Soviet agreement on nonproliferation of chemical and
biological weapons. At his trial, "Vesti" reported, Mirzayanov
refused to cooperate with the court, stating that putting him on
trial was unconstitutional. ... The trial is being held behind
closed doors because, the prosecution claims, the case involves
many top secret documents. Julia Wishnevsky, RFE/RL, Inc.
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MIRZAYANOV CASE NEWS 30 JAN. 1994
Vil Mirzayanov is still in a maximum security prison, Matrosskaya
Tishina (Sailor's Silence), where he will remain until Thursday, 3
February when the case is scheduled to resume. Unless, of course
it is dismissed.
Dr. Uglev, who was one of the chief chemical weapons designers,
corroborated Vil Mirzayanov's allegations last year, by his own
revelations in the press. Though an investigation has been
initiated against Uglev (for revealing state secrets), no charges
had been filed because he had deputy's immunity as an elected
official. Last week, Dr. Uglev publicly threatened to release to
the press on Feb. 4th, the formulas of chemical weapons and
describe how they are made, unless he was able to meet with
President Yeltsin to discuss chemical weapons disarmament. This
threat received a negative reaction from many people in Russia and
abroad.
On Saturday 29 January, Dr. Uglev met with Mr. Yuri Baturin, the
new Russian National Security Advisor, who is considered a
reform-minded individual. Tonight at 9 PM Moscow time, during a
weekly news review program, this meeting was mentioned. They
discussed Uglev's request that the case against Vil Mirzayanov be
dismissed, as well as Russia's chemical weapons destruction
program. During the program, it was reported that an anonymous
senior Russian administration official stated that in his opinion,
the case might be dropped during the coming week.
Some letters of support were shown on Russian TV. While attorney
Asnis was pleased with articles in the foreign press and in
publications such as Izvestiya and Moscow News, he is concerned
about some recent negative articles in Russia.
NOTE: The following was sent to us by Dima Litvinov of the
Greenpeace Moscow office.
Izvestiya 29 January 1994 Editorial
Opinion
"The Mirzayanov Case: Stupidity of the Authorities or the
Establishment of Despotic Power
The Vil Mirzayanov case is well known - it has been written
about by both the Russian as well as the world press for nearly
two years. He is a scientist/chemist who has taken a humanitarian
and brave step, and he has been accused of revealing state
secrets. A court case has been started, the machine of "justice"
has been started up. However it has been clear to everyone for a
long time that behind this case there are no grounds, just
emptiness. First of all, there is no legitimate law which was
broken by Mirzayanov
- secret decisions are not laws. Second, that which has been
revealed has long ago ceased being a state secret. Finally, even
the entity which has made the accusation, does not exist by itself
- the Ministry of Security [KGB]. Nonetheless, the machine, once
started up, keeps on spinning, and for Mr. Mirzayanov it is not
idling. The Moscow Municipal Court has issued a warrant for the
arrest of the accused and for his forced appearance in court.
Today the scientist is in prison.
Mirzayanov has stated from the beginning that he will not make
statements to the court, as is his right. Then he stated that he
will not come to the court at all - he does not have a right to do
that. Therefore the decision of the Moscow Municipal Court can be
seen as legally justified because both law and the court must be
respected. However, there is a moral legal axiom: whoever is on
the side of justice - has the right to be firm. The judges cannot
understand the stupidity of their actions, not only that, they
cannot understand the basis of the Mirzayanov case. At least,
they continue it Why? What for?
There are a number of different answers to this question, that
have as a rule, concrete characteristics which are based on the
materials of the case. Let's try to abstract ourselves from the
concreteness of the case and take a look at the events from a
philosophical point of view. From the point of view of the
philosophy of power. No, it would be too simple to explain
everything by pure thickheadedness of the authorities or by the
fact that once a machine has been started up it should not be
stopped. Everything is much more complex.
The despotic power affirms itself, not on reasonable firmness,
and not even on the idea that the goal justifies the means, and
not on the idea that that which is good for the rulers is moral.
The despotism is founded on absurdity which has been brought into
law. Let the "Mirzayanov case" be one example. Let us suppose
that we do not see a subjective goal of confirming justice in one
particular case. Nonetheless, objectively, it is precisely this
line which we can conclude: the justification of senselessness as
a principal.
Is this too bold a supposition? Possibly. However, each fact
- points in this direction. Naturally a question arises: if
someone wants to affirm the despotic basis of power, who is doing
that? The President? The government? The military-industrial
complex? It is doubtful that we can know who is this concrete
"somebody". Nevertheless, we cannot help but state the fact that
the absurd case is continuing along a well-formed Soviet
prosecutorial practice. In the "Mirzayanov case" there was doubt
about the actual commission of a crime, according to all current
laws, no crime has been committed. Nevertheless, the absurdity
continues.
But is it only absurdity? In recent times there have been too
many steps taken by the authorities that cannot be understood by
society. There is an impression that a challenge is being given
tot he people. The press is sounding the alarm, but its voice is
not heard. Not one of the officials has answered the questions
[that have been raised] in connection with the "Mirzayanov case".
Why not? It's up to the 4th estate to determine who and what is
behind the case. It would be good if we found a concrete
individual that it should be addressed to. Most probably, this
individual will not be found. And then the supposition about the
movement of power towards despotism will be confirmed."
# #
#
Please look for an article in the Tuesday, Feb. 1 issue of the
Wall Street Journal, about the case by J. Michael Waller.
[Jan.]
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[May]
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From: sasha@smarty.ece.jhu.edu (Alexander E. Kaplan)
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Dear IR-netties,
Gee, that was a really pleasant "island of quiet": no postings
within last almost two weeks! (Or was anybody scared by my comment
on visa-taxes?:-). So I decided to use your peaceful mood to get out
my regular "updated-list-is-comimg" posting and the list itself
(getting boring, isn't it?:-).
This INFO-RUSS net started on Aug. 15'91 with about 40 addresses.
I am going to broadcast a new (24-th) updated list of names&addresses
(more than 860 now) within next 24 hours. The list is broken into
geo-sections: AMERICA (US+Canada), ISRAEL, EUROPE (including UK),
ex-USSR, AUSTRALIA, South AFRICA, JAPAN, BRAZIL, MEXICO, and OTHERS.
Be aware, it is 60+ kb long.
The list must not be used for commercial or any other unauthorized purposes.
--Best
--Alex Kaplan, INFO-RUSS owner/coordinator
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This is an updated list of subscribers/addresses of INFO-RUSS net. The list
is broken into geo-sections: AMERICA (US+Canada), ISRAEL, EUROPE (including
UK), ex-USSR, AUSTRALIA, South AFRICA, JAPAN, BRAZIL, MEXICO, and OTHERS.
Inside each of the sections the last names are listed in alphabetic (latin)
order. If you find any error, please let me know.
Alex Kaplan, INFO-RUSS owner/coordinator
Copyright 1994, A. E. Kaplan. All rights reserved.
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From: Leonid Lebedev
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Address of Khar'kov University
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Hi,folks,
My Colombian friend studied at Khar'kov University (Physics) and wants to
know the e-mail address of Physics Dept or FizTekh. He needs to get a
copy of his candidate dissertation.
Leonid
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Penpals in St. Petersburg
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I have been requested to try to find addresses
(regular mail) of possible adult pen-pals in the
St. Petersburg area. As I am not interested in
such correspondence, I have no information on this.
If any of you have such information, I would
appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Rex.
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Cyrillic fonts
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Dear IR-netters,
A friend of mine asked me about a Cyrillic font for SUN, OpenLook. If
anybody can be of any assistance, the help will be greatly appreciated.
Alexander Gorodinsky, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 Euclid Ave., St. Louis 63110
tel. (314) 352-3542
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From: Nancy McGraw-Allen
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I'm a first year russian language student and am looking for russian
language freeware or shareware to download. Could you assist? Any other
general info/guides would be deeply appreciated.
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To: carr-l@ulkyvm.louisville.edu, fsu@sovset.org, info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu,
iprussia@sovam.com
Subject: INFO-RUSS: A new GlasNews
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Dear Networker:
The Winter 1993-1994 issue of GlasNews is available on the soc.culture.soviet
newsgroup, on PeaceNet's glasnost.news conference, and via anonymous ftp from
eskimo.com (directory: GlasNews). It is also on the World Wide Web
(via Friends and Partners: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html).
GlasNews, published quarterly by the Communications Exchange Program, is
aimed at East-West communicators in the fields of journalism, advertising,
public relations and telecommunications. On-line subscription is free,
on-paper subscription may be purchased. To have GlasNews e-mailed to you,
please send a message to glasnews@eskimo.com. This month's issue features
an essay by Moscow News analyst Vladimir Orlov on the mood among Russian
journalists after the recent parliamentary elections.
Best regards,
Alan Boyle
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This note is being sent to the following lists: CARR-L, FSU, INFO-RUSS
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From: "Y.Dain"
Subject: INFO-RUSS: About Canada
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I need an information about Canada:jobs,medication,inshurence,education
etc.- does it make sense to apply for permanent residence now?
Thanks in adwance. Y.Dain
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From: vitaliy.kantor@fi.gs.com (Vitaliy Kantor)
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Unix(Sun OS) language(Rus-Engl,Engl)
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I'm looking for bilingual(russian,english) or English only language oriented
freeware or shareware or whatever for Unix(Sun OS) X-Windows/Motiff
environment. This includes (but is not restricted to) bilingual dictionary,
Webster dictionary, all kinds of special dictionaries, cyrillics for screen,
english grammar guides, etc.
Speaking shortly everything helpful for mastering English for Russian-speaking
guy on Sun-station. Could you assist? I would deeply appreciate any related
information.
Vitaliy Kantor
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Courtesy of Radio Liberty, RFE/RL Daily Report No. 25, 7 February 1994
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CAPITAL FLIGHT PROBE SHELVED. The investigation by the US
corporate private investigators, Kroll Associates, into capital
flight from the former Soviet Union has been shelved, The
Financial Times reported on 7 February. One investigator was
quoted as saying that the file compiled from talking with Western
banks and companies raised "suspicions about certain players and
institutions [in the former Soviet Union]. Our problem is that
when we sent it to Moscow, it was never followed up." The
Institute of International Finance has estimated the current scale
of capital flight from Russia to be at least $1 billion a month,
although this includes foreign currency legally deposited by
Russian companies into Russian banks which place it overseas.
Keith Bush, RFE/RL, Inc.
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This is an excerpt from RFE/RL Daily Report No. 26, 8 February 1994
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PARLOUS STATE OF RUSSIAN SCIENCE. In a letter published in
Sovetskaya Rossiya on 3 February, the biologist Professor A.
Akifev said that the pure sciences in Russia today are
plagued by three problems: first, state funding for
scientific research has been pared to the bone; secondly,
researchers are working in a vacuum since subscriptions to
almost all Western scientific periodicals were canceled in
1993; thirdly, the average salary of a head of a scientific
laboratory or institute is now only 65,000 rubles a month.
This puts scientists' salaries only slightly above the
official subsistence level of 50,000 rubles a month. In fact,
about a quarter of the Russian population now lives below
that level, according to Izvestiya of 5 February. Elizabeth
Teague, RFE/RL, Inc.
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From: Mark Markish x2799
Subject: INFO-RUSS: E-Mail Lists Update
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An update on the status of the E-mail lists, which
might be of an interest for the INFO-RUSS subscribers:
RUSSIA and UKRAINE lists have died, fallen victims
of Russophobia and Ukrainophagia, respectively.
ORTHODOX list, on the contrary, has been flourishing,
adding many new subscribers and venturing into vast
new areas, above and beyond the usage of kosher wine
(as was once reported).
The list has changed venue twice in as many months, due
to a shortage of computer resourcers, and found home in
the University of Indiana. To subscribe, send a one-line
message
SUB ORTHODOX
to
Listserv@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Let me also pass you a question from a subscriber to ORTHODOX
list: could anyone send him (send it to me, I'll pass it on to
him) a program which calculates the date of Passover (15th of Nisan)
on the common calendar? Information on when and how the Jewish
calendar was changed in the course of the last two millennia will
also be appreciated.
Yours truly,
--> Mark Markish ComputerVision 14 Crosby Dr., Bedford MA 01730 <--
--> mmarkish@feds46a.CV.Com ph.617/275-1800 x2799 fx.617/275-0157 <--
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From: "Dr.Sasha Goldfarb (a0rumy01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu)"
Subject: INFO-RUSS: anyone going to Moscow soon?
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University of Louisville, Nephrology Dpt.
(502)852-4385, (502)964-1026, fax (502)852-7643,852-4384
Hi guys!
Sorry for trivial question, but is there anybody
who's going to be in Moscow soon?
I need to send there some documents (in fact small parcel)
and would greately appreciate any help in this matter.
Thanks in advance.
-- Sasha
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Dear netters,
We are trying to establish a cooperation with neuroscience
oriented institutions, companies or individuals in Russia
(CIS) to carry out joint research and development and to
introduce technological innovations in one of the following
areas:
computerized EEG signal pattern recognition including
computer assisted sleep scoring and automated staging,
detection and prediction of abnormalities and creation
of electronic alarm devices;
3D brain reconstruction software using images from
different modalities;
signal-image fractal and wavelet compression software
and hardware.
If you are aware of people who might be interested in
collaboration in mentioned area, or can provide a list of
potentially interested institutions, organizations or individuals,
please, contact to:
petrosian@cutter.mco.edu "Arthur A. Petrosian"
Phone: (419)381-3969
(419)381-3544
Fax: (419)381-3093
P.S. Any information in this regard would be helpful and greatly
appreciated.
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From: yefim@bgs.com (Yefim Somin)
Subject: INFO-RUSS: housing in London
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Netters (especially those in the UK),
I need info on cheap (student level) summer housing in London. Do colleges
there open up their dormitories as they do in the US? Any tips would be
greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Yefim Somin
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: info on Phoenix
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Is there a good soul on the net from Phoenix (Arizona)
who could answer some specific practical questions I
have (I am travelling there soon)?
Gregory Kucherov
INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN tel: (33) 83 59 30 21
Technopole de Nancy-Brabois fax: (33) 83 27 83 19
Campus Scientifique telex: 850 238 F
615, rue du Jardin Botanique
B.P. 101
54602 VILLERS-LES-NANCY Cedex
FRANCE
Specially for INFO-RUSS: "Tell me how to make money and I'll
tell you how to send it to Russia"
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YELTSIN UNREACHABLE? ... US President Bill Clinton has
apparently been unable to reach Russian President Boris Yeltsin by
telephone for more than two days in order to discuss the Bosnia
dispute. According to the Washington Post of 11 February, US
officials have described as "curious" the persistence of
"technical problems" that have kept Yeltsin incommunicado. A
senior administration official reportedly said that there was "no
sense of alarm or concern" in Washington, however, and pointed out
that national security adviser Anthony Lake had spoken with his
Russian counterpart, as had American UN ambassador Madeleine
Albright, and that James F. Collins, a senior State Department
official, had also been in contact with senior Russian officials.
Stephen Foye, RFE/RL, Inc.
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Sovokinform: Sergei Burkov
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>From: KOVALEVV@news.rferl.org:
1. Sidit chukcha na kraju obryva. Idut mimo oleni. Podchodit prochozhyj: Hej,
chukcha, tvoi olen' s obryva upal! Molchit chukcha. He, dva tvoich olenia
s obryva upali! Molchit chukcha, kurit. Hej, tam vse tvoe stado s obryva
padaet! Odnako, tendencia... - vzdychaet chukcha.
2. Prosypaetsia Eltsin, vychodit na balkon. "Smotri, Naina! Moskvu-reku
zaasfaltirovali. Teper' rockery noch'yu spat' ne dadut" - "Nichego Boria, zato Avror
Avrora blizko ne podoidet!"
3. Bogataia dama zvonit v buro sex-uslug: "Prishlite mne parnia!" - "Kakogo?" -
"Krutogo, ochen' krutogo!" Priechal modno odetyj yunosha, idet srazu na balkon
i nachinaet brosat' vniz s sebia: plashch, smoking, shveicarskie chasy, shelko-
vyj galstuk... - "Zachem eto vy delaete?" - "Madam, kogda ja kontchu, vse eto
uzhe vyjdet iz mody!"
4. Da bud' ia i Lenin preklonnych godov
Ia b v negry poshel, druzia!
Chtob russkij tam vyuchit' tolko za to,
Chto im razgovarival ia!
Kliatva dezertiorov:
Klianemsia tak na svete zhyt'
Kak vozhd' velikij zhyl.
I tak zhe v armii sluzhit'
Kak Lenin v nej sluzhil.
5. "Kak vam ne stydno!" - krichali vozmushchennye pensionery v parke. -
"Nikak ne stydno!" - otvechali iz kustov pensioneram. A sami i tak, i tak,
i edak...
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Dlina sleduyuschego pis'ma neskol'ko privyshaet standart, za chto
Sovokinform prinosit izvineniya. Kak govoritsya, ne nravitsya - ne berite.
--S. Burkov
---I shorten it down somewhat. --A.E. Kaplan
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PIS'MA IZ EVRAZII.
#1, Moskva, 23 yanvarya 94g.
.......................
Interesna i unyla zhizn' teh, kto ne nashel poka sebe mesta
v e'toj piramide. Interesna, potomu chto e'to samoe "poka" vnosit
v zhizn' e'lement azartnoj komp'yuternoj igry, v kotoroj v lyubom
sluchae nichego ne teryaesh'. Unyla iz-za togo, chto ponimaesh',
skol'ko sil i vremeni otnimaet soblyudenie proizvol'no menyayu-
sqihsya pravil.
Areal obitaniya. Vot s e'tim zdorovo povezlo! I esli by ne
prihodilos' vse vremya borot'sya s gosudarstvom v lice pervyh
dvuh grupp, to obitat' zdes' bylo by odno udovol'stvie. Esqe by
gor nemnozhko... Horosho plavat' gde-nibud' po beskonechno pere-
hodyasqim drug v druga ozeram i tochno znat', chto e'to prinadlezhit
tebe ne men'she, chem vsem ostal'nym grazhdanam, a e'tih ostal'nyh
krugom - ni dushi. Est', konechno, kakoj-to dekret o zemle, no
poka delezh idet sredi izbrannyh, a im hvataet obzhityh mest.
Trudno poka predstavit', chto vse kogda-nibud' budet razdeleno
zaborami s tablichkami o chastnyh vladeniyah. Hotya pravitel'stvo
i priblizhennye ne dremlyut. Vot s gospredpriyatiyami tozhe vse by-
lo tiho, a kogda poluchivshij vauchery narod brosilsya iskat'
sobstvennost', osnovnaya chast' okazalas' privatizirovannoj. Tak
mozhet poka esqe mozhno prikupit' bolotce v Tverskoj oblasti? Kak
raz v razgar oktyabr'skih sobytij prismotrel odno takoe. E'lekt-
richkami noch'yu 30 sentyabrya doehal do Vasil'evskogo Mha (kakovo
nazvanie! E'to tebe ne ^NY^ ili ^LA^), utrom v polusne vylez i
na avtopilote pobrel k bolotu i tol'ko tam uzhe spohvatilsya,
chto zabyl lyzhi. Snega - do figa (po koleno provalivaesh'sya v
vodu, a do figa - v sneg). Ya ne severnyj olen', poe'tomu poiski
klyukvy pod snegom otlozhil, vybrel na uyutnyj ostrovok i peresi-
del oktyabr'skie sobytiya v priyatnoj kompanii (odin) v priyatnom
meste. A ved' ne ushel by v bolota, esqe neizvestno, kak by
zhizn' povernulas'.
............................................
Pust' obvinyayut menya v plagiate, no nachnu opisanie zdeshnej
zhizni s tekusqih novostej.
Postoyannaya novost', za kotoroj sledit vse vzrosloe i pod-
rastayusqee naselenie - kurs dollara na MMVB (Mosk. Mezhdunar.
Valyutn. Birzha). E'ta novost' soobsqaetsya vo vseh programmah po
radio i TV, ob e'tom pishut prakticheski vse gazety (dazhe e'roti-
cheskie), ob e'tom govoryat v metro, na rabote, po telefonu. Na-
vernoe, v vojnu vot tak lyudi interesovalis' "Svodkami Inform-
byuro". Yavlenie e'to unikal'noe i trudnoob`yasnimoe, hotya by po-
tomu, chto u bol'shej chasti naseleniya dollarov nikakih netu. U
nih i s rublyami-to tugo. E'to v Moskve. Kak v derevnyah - ne
znayu, no v provincial'nyh gorodah stol' zhe zhivoj, v bol'shej
chasti akademicheskij, interes k obmennomu kursu, ya znayu, nablyu-
daetsya. Kak my doshli do zhizni takoj? Ochen' prosto. Vystupaet,
naprimer, nash vice-prem'er pered takim e'konomicheski podkovan-
nym naseleniem s ocherednym zanudstvom: "My indeksiruem pensii
i zarplaty gossluzhasqim. My boremsya za to, chtoby debetovoe
sal'do byudzheta ne prevysilo 10% valovogo dohoda, t.k. ne mozhem
dopustit' obescenivaniya sberezhenij trudyasqihsya". (Horosho imet'
naselenie s pogolovnym srednim obrazovaniem.) I hotya v sbere-
zheniya u trudyasqihsya naproch' otsutstvuyut, kazhdyj davno reshil dlya
sebya zagadku pravitel'stva. Vsem srazu stanovitsya yasno, chto
pravitel'stvo boretsya imenno s nimi. I esli uzh privalit kakoe
sberezhenie - tut zhe nuzhno bezhat' i menyat' ego na zelenuyu pya-
terku ili desyatku, blago menyal'nuyu kontoru mozhno vstretit' cha-
sqe, chem urnu. Posle e'toj operacii mozhno pokazyvat' yazyk pravi-
tel'stvu s ego inflyaciej paru nedel', poka ne podopret mahnut'
rubli vzad. Samoe smeshnoe, chto v e'tom est' smysl. Umniki, chto
reshili stat' rant'e i vlozhili svoi rubli v banki pod 300% (e'to
na segodnya granica mezhdu temi, kto dejstvitel'no sobiraetsya
vernut' den'gi i zhulikami) poteryali za god ok. 1000% iz-za in-
flyacii. Podderzhivayusqie amerikanskuyu e'konomiku ne poteryali ni-
chego (esli ne schitat' plavnogo rosta dollarovyh cen).
Valyutnye svodki ottesnili na vtoroj plan ne tol'ko prog-
noz pogody, no i vsevozmozhnye astrologicheskie prognozy i
predskazaniya. Nyneshnyaya programma "Vremya" obyazatel'no zakanchi-
vaetsya podrobnym, minut na 5, ezhednevnym astrologicheskim prog-
nozom, menee podrobnye prognozy - vo vseh programmah novostej.
V perehodah metro prodayut kipy knig, broshyur, gazet na e'tu te-
mu. Ya ne specialist v astrologii, no, po-moemu, v e'tih progno-
zah polnejshaya kasha: zdes' i zodiakal'nyj kalendar', i vostoch-
nyj, hirologiya, karty Taro i t.d. Na zare perestrojki, kogda
na TV prorvalis' "psihoterapevty" tipa Kashpirovskigo i Chumaka,
ulicy pusteli, u televizorov po vsej strane stavilis' banki s
vodoprovodnoj vodoj, kotoraya zaryazhalas' zhivitel'noj e'nergiej k
koncu peredachi. Teper' moda na prognozy, v kotoryh soobsqayut:
"...zavtra ovenov povysyat po sluzhbe, a vecherom ih zhdet novoe
romanticheskoe priklyuchenie". I plevat' ya hotel na sluzhbu i ra-
botu voobsqe, esli vse i tak yasno. Luchshe ya budu gotovit'sya k
vechernemu romanu. Mozhet byt' zdes' russkaya nacional'naya cherta,
otrazhennaya v bol'shinstve narodnyh skazok, v kotoryh bol'she
vsego vezet durakam i bezdel'nikam: hochetsya vsego i srazu. I
chtob samomu nichego ne delat'.
..................................................
Da, nevazhnen'kij byl u nas Verhovnyj Sovet. I vybirali my
ego esqe pod dejstviem kommunisticheskogo soznaniya, i zaslonyali
oni soboj v yasqike, slezotochivye meksikanskie serialy, i razda-
vali dragocennye byudzhetnye den'gi vsyakim pensioneram i byudzhet-
nikam. Zato byl bol'shoj plyus. Pravitel'stvu ne nuzhno bylo lo-
mat' golovu: chego zhe vse tak ploho? Iz-za nih, iz-za deputa-
tov. Takoe protivostoyanie obeim vetvyam vlasti bylo na ruku.
Vzaimnye napadki to obostryalis', to tleli. Poe'tomu, kogda El'-
cynu vzdumalos' uprazdnit' Verh.Sovet, e'to bylo neozhidannost'yu
dlya vseh, navernoe, i dlya nego samogo. Dal'she vse izvestno:
deputaty zaperlis', demokraty razvyazali kanalizacionno-e'lekt-
richeskuyu vojnu (perekryli deputatam i to i drugoe). Pered
obaldevshimi grazhdanami vstal vopros: to li i vpryam' v Belom
Dome odni urody, to li "slabyh b'yut". Kogda odin iz nanajcev
na glazah u izumlennoj publiki prikonchil vtorogo, kovernyj
ob`yavil antrakt do 15 noyabrya; oba nanajca poklonilis' i ushli
za kulisy, a vot zritelyam dostalos'. Skol'ko narodu perestre-
lyali u Belogo doma i Ostankino nikto tochno ne znaet (po raznym
ocenkam ot 300 do 1500). Ne samogo plohogo naroda - e'to te,
kto poshel za slabyh.
Moi vpechatleniya ot pervogo akta. Vse ochen' napominalo av-
gust 1991 g. El'cinskoe TV brosilos' rasskazyvat' o dostizheni-
yah ministrov-demokratov. Govorilos', chto net zhelayusqih zasqisqat'
Belyj Dom, a esli i krutitsya tam kto, to e'to 1000 klinicheskih
kommunistov, vooruzhennyh banditov i prochih p'yanic-alkogoli-
kov. Nu gde esqe mozhno uvidet' takuyu kompaniyu? Vot ya i poshel iz
lyubopytstva. Pogoda byla otvratitel'naya, morosil dozhdik, pri
+4 grad. Belyj Dom byl otceplen soldatami, pereodetymi v formu
milicejskogo specnaza. Ne byvaet brityh milicionerov; e'to kak
vo vremya moskovskoj olimpiady polovina publiki na tribunah -
britye, v odinakovyh novyh sportivnyh kostyumah (navernoe, i
kostyumy u nih potom zabrali). Vdol' e'togo ocepleniya brodili
vpolne intelligentnogo vida grazhdane, pytayas' proniknut'
vnutr'. Po moim prikidkam pered kol'com ocepleniya bylo
ok.15000 chel. (kol'co dovol'no shirokoe, nachinalos' u st.metro
Barrikadnaya i proryvayusqiesya k Belomu Domu rassredotochilis'
pochti ravnomerno, obrazovyvaya tolpu primerno v 5-10 sloev).
Postoyav chas, ya tam uvidel neskol'ko sovershenno udruchayusqih
scen. Zhensqina let 50 podoshla k soldatu i stala ugovarivat',
chtoby ee propustili, t.k. u nee tam syn bez edy i teploj odezh-
dy. Soldat bez vsyakogo vyrazheniya zloby na lice paru raz so
vsego mahu ogrel ee rezinovoj dubinkoj po golove. Zhensqina upa-
la, narod brosilsya ee podnimat' i ottaskivat'. Zheleznye zago-
rodki, kotorye ran'she stavili u univermagov pri rasprodazhah,
razdvigali tol'ko dlya togo chtoby propustit' vyhodyasqih iz ocep-
leniya. Im prepyatstvij po-moemu ne chinili. V takie momenty de-
monstranty pytalis' vospol'zovat'sya obrazovavshejsya bresh'yu i
dazhe nekotorye proryvalis' - vot togda mozhno bylo posmotret',
kak uchili soldat vnutrennih vojsk obrasqat'sya s protivnikom.
P'yanyh ya ne videl, banditov (ih po kachkovym figuram i fiziono-
miyam vidno srazu) tozhe, vot krasnye flagi byli, vrat' ne budu.
Vernulsya domoj, vklyuchil TV i vse to zhe samoe: v pereryvah mezh-
du horoshimi fil'mami govoryat o tysyache kommunistov-piketchikov.
..........................................
Kogda dym rasseyalsya, zhelayusqih uchastvovat' vo vtorom akte
prezidentskogo spektaklya poubavilos', na vybory prishli 51% iz-
biratelej (50% byl porog). Za kogo predlagalos' golosovat'? 4
partii demokratov, razmnozhivshihsya pered vyborami vegetativnym
sposobom, demokraticheskaya partiya Travkina (ee ya ne otnoshu k
predydusqim iz-za specificheskogo ponimaniya demokratii e'timi che-
tyr'mya), kommunisty, patrioty Zhirinovskogo i vsyakie partii ze-
lenyh, molodezhi i zasqity detstva, materinstva i devichestva.
Krome togo predlagalos' otvetit' na zhul'nicheskij vopros o
konstitucii, to li prodolzhat' zhit' bez takovoj pri voennom po-
lozhenii i komendantskom chase, to li prinyat' vtoropyah sochinen-
nuyu pod prezidenta. Buduchi predstavitelem 49% izbiratelej,
vpolne ponimayu logiku mnogih drugih, reshivshih vybrat' togo,
kto dast zharu "tam naverhu". Chto-zh Zhirinovskij tam, posmotrim.
Volodya
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: e-mail addresses in St. Petersburg
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Does anyone have info regarding whether "Pedagogical Institute" in St.
Petersburg has an e-mail number?
Or does anyone have an e-mail number for someone in St. Petersburg who
might be willing to deliver message to someone living in St. Pete. and
working at the Pedagogical Institute?
Thanks
bochenek@cap.gwu.edu Ben
(301) 439-4711
Call anytime before 11:00 PM Eastern daylight time.
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Hi, folks.
Can anyone help me to overcome the following computer-related
problem. I need to convert the PostScript form file to any word
processor (or editor) form file; to Word, or Write, for example,
or, at least, to the ASCII form file.
Thank you an advance
With best regards, Victor Bernshtein
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From: Yuri Pavlovich Ammosov
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Drug trade in Russia
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Drug Trade Booms in Russia
Copyright: 1994 by Reuters, R
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 6:20:02 PST
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MOSCOW (Reuter) - The deaf-mute outside Moscow's crowded
Byelorussky railway station who raises his fingers to his lips
in a ``v'' might simply be asking for a cigarette.
But those familiar with Moscow underground life know the
real meaning.
The station, packed day and night with commuters,
long-distance travelers, beggars and invalids, is a center of
Moscow's flourishing drugs trade. Its small group of mutes are
among the biggest dealers.
``Marijuana, opium, hashish -- they have anything you need
to get stoned. Prices are high, but the stuff is always
available,'' said Alexei, a 20-year-old Moscow University
student.
Drugs were strictly forbidden in the Soviet era, when they
were described in official propaganda as a scourge of the
capitalist West. Now they are recognized as a problem in Russia.
Officials counted 53,000 drug-related crimes in Russia in
1993, up from 29,000 in 1992 and 16,000 in 1985.
``Addiction disappears under totalitarian rule,'' said
Arkady Kuznetsov, head of the Interior Ministry's anti-drugs
department.
``Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini annihilated drug-taking by
sending all drug dealers to jail. Now it is everywhere.''
Kuznetsov said the scale of drug abuse in Russia could not
be compared to that in the West but it was a serious problem.
``It's no wonder. Around 2.5 million acres of land in Russia
are covered with wild cannabis, and 2.5 acres yields around one
ton of hashish. The calculations are very simple,'' he said.
Almost half the cannabis and opium available in Moscow comes
from the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Ukraine,
Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
Kuznetsov said Russia was the only country in the world
where consumption of drugs -- as opposed to selling them -- was
not a criminal offense. President Boris Yeltsin lifted a ban on
drug consumption in 1991.
A poll published two years ago by the Education Ministry
showed 1.5 million of Russia's 150 million population were
taking drugs.
``I do not believe these figures too much,'' Kuznetsov said.
``Two years ago people were too afraid of saying they had ever
tried the stuff. Besides, the number of addicts has grown
considerably over two years,'' he added.
``Moscow has become quite a cool place. Everything you ever
heard about is on sale here -- LSD, crack, heroin and even magic
mushrooms,'' said Dmitry, 26, a bearded painter.
Opium is sold in straw form which can be boiled in acetone
to create a heroin-like substance which users inject.
``Russia has always been a special country and it has
specialities in the field of drug production,'' said Kuznetsov.
``The most dangerous are synthetic drugs, like
trimethylfentonil, a synthetic heroin.''
He said many Russian chemists, unemployed or struggling to
survive on $20 per month, were involved in underground
production of synthetic drugs to make ends meet. ``Many of them
have bright brains, so they use them.''
Synthetic heroin is called ``glass'' in street slang,
because one of its chemical components is used in armored glass.
Kuznetsov said only two countries -- the United States and
Russia -- were producing this ``second generation'' drug.
Five grams of ``glass,'' dissolved in two gallons of water,
is enough for 2,000 fixes.
The Interior Ministry also has to combat Russia's new,
wealthy drug-using elite.
``They are mostly pop stars, people in the arts and
businessmen. They have plenty of dough but nothing to do (so
they) just look for some new entertainment,'' said Kuznetsov.
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Does anyone know an e-mail address of the American Embassy in
Moscow, Russia ? I've tried many different sources of information
but nobody would know or would tell me. I think this network is
the only place where I can get an answer.
Thanks a lot :-)
Fariz Rzayev
farizrza@aol.com
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Subject: INFO-RUSS: Absolute Purim Party - Feb 24
To:info-russ@smarty.ece.jhu.edu (Info-Jwss),
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 18:41:19 -0500 (EST)
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If you got this message - you are invited.
regards,
Simon
> Society of Young Jewish Professionals
> &
> Chabad House
>
> present
>
> ABSOLUTE PURIM PARTY
>
> Thursday, Feb. 24, 1994
> at M-80
> 967 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
>
> from 7:00 PM 'till 11:00 PM
> Megillah Reading at 7:00
> Kosher Beveragaes & Hors D'oeuvres
> Live Music by one of Boston's
> Hottest Israeli Bands
Simon Streltsov,
Boston University
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Dear netters !
I know there is who_is_who server in Russia ( who_is_who@kiae.su)
which allows one to get directory info using key words
(for example, personal name or city name ).
I am interested to find e-mail nodes in some towns of Russia,
but the only thing I can get from this server is HELP-file
(which explains how to use server).
Have anyone used it with any success? Can you help me with
step-by-step instructions?
Thanks,
Maxim.
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A friend of mine is part of a small venture group that is trying to
start several ventures in Russia.
He is looking for a casting (metallurgical) engineer. He has not given
me the Russian translation for the title yet.
Advantages: 1) Age does not matter.
2) The person MUST have worked as a casting engineer
in the Soviet Union. He does not have to be employed
in that field in the U.S. or Canada. It does not
matter what he is doing now -- unemployed or underemployed.
Disadvantages: 1) This is for a test, short-term contract. There is no
long-run security or financial stability. Raw capitalism.
2) The candidate will have to live in Russia or Belarus for
several months at a time. This may involve living in
the foundry cities in the Urals.
My friend leaves on a business trip soon so please reply as soon as you
can.
PLEASE RESPOND DIRECTLY TO MY MAILING ADDRESS BELOW. DO NOT REPLY TO
THE LIST.
Thanks,
George Chachis
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These are excerpts from RFE/RL Daily Report No. 33, 17 February 1994
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NEW INVESTIGATION INTO MIRZAYANOV CASE. The Moscow City Court has
ruled that Vil Mirzayanov, the Russian scientist accused of
betraying state secrets concerning the production of Soviet
chemical weapons, must remain in jail while a fresh investigation
is conducted into the charges against him, ITAR-TASS reported on
14 February. Mirzayanov argues that the case against him is
unconstitutional since the list of state secrets itself remains
classified. Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin has issued a decree
identifying 38 federal bodies which have the right to classify
information as a state secret, ITAR-TASS reported on 13 February.
They include the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs,
Nuclear Power, Economy, Finance, and Civil Defense, as well as the
law enforcement and security agencies. The publication of
Yeltsin's decree may signify an attempt on the part of the
President to distance his administration from the Mirzayanov case.
Victor Yasmann, RFE/RL, Inc.
Zhirinovsky's faction in the Duma proposed
banning Radio Liberty broadcasts on the territory of the Russian
Federation, Independent Television reported on 16 February. A
majority of the deputies voted down the proposal. Alexander Rahr
and Vera Tolz, RFE/RL, Inc.
POPULATION DECLINE CONTINUES. Reports published recently indicate
a marked decline in the population of Russia and suggest a
continuation of this trend through the end of the century. From
Roskomstat's preliminary data for 1993, as cited by RIA of 3
February, The Financial Times of 14 February, and ITAR-TASS of 15
February, it appears that in 1993 there were 1.4 million births
and 2.2 million deaths. Because of inward migration of Russians
from the "near abroad," the net fall in population was limited to
500,000. The decline is attributed primarily to economic upheaval,
the breakdown in health services, and the deteriorating
environment. The head of the Labor Ministry's Department of Human
Resources reckons that the fertility index will remain at around
1.5 until the end of the century, whereas an index of 2.11 would
be necessary to maintain the population. Keith Bush, RFE/RL, Inc.
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From: sergeis@geophysics.harvard.edu (Sergei Sianissian)
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To: INFO-RUSS@smarty.ece.jhu.edu
Subject: INFO-RUSS: Searcning for e-mail in Rostov
Cc: sergeis@geophysics.harvard.edu
Status: O
17 of February, 1994
10-30 (Boston time)
Dear countrymen,
My name is Sergey Sianissian. I am a scientist (geophysicist) from Grozny
Oil Institute (North Caucasus). Now I work at Harvard University
in Cambridge (USA).
I am looking for any e-mail adress in Rostov-on-Don. I will appreciate
your help. On my part, if you are interested of any kind of information
from USA, I can help you (in the range of my possibility).
Sincerely,
Sergey Sianissian.
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The following long message is designed primarily to explain our case to
our colleagues abroad. I do think, however, that it may be useful for us
too to look at the numbers. They speak for themselves.
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 21:38:53 +0200
To: msasher@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Dear colleagues:
Here is the file that many of you are waiting for.
The file has been edited by various volunteers and aproved by the
public relation committe of the Moetza Metaemet.
The numbers that have been cited are based on information available
at the Moetza Metaemet.Yo can trust them.
Please forward this file to your colleagues in Israel.
We wish each of the 4,500 faculty members in Israel to distribute this
file between his/her colleagues in USA, Europe and the rest of the world.
Please ask them to distribute it wherever possible in order to increase the
pressure on our government.Pressure from abroad will help us to save the
higher education sysyem in Israel.
A similar version will be faxed to Jewish newspapers and Jewish federations
within two days.
Keep the faith and stay united behind our leading team.
Yours,
Prof. Moshe Gur (Mogi), Chairman
Public Relation Committe of the Moetza Metaemet.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Israel National Association of University Professors
Febuary 20, 1994
CRISIS IN ISRAELI HIGHER EDUCATION
Higher education in Israel ground to a halt seven weeks ago when the
4,500 faculty members of Israel's seven major universities declared a
strike.On the surface, the faculty strike appears to be due to a wage
dispute between academic faculties and the government.However the causes
are much deeper.
In its first decades, Israel made a strong commitment to higher
education and invested heavily in it despite a heavy burden of defense
costs.This commitment reflected a tradition of learning which has
characterized Jewish societies for so many centuries.The young were
encouraged to study.Israeli universities have faculty members who are
world-renowned for their scientific work; tenure criteria are among the
toughest in the world.However, during the past two decades, this tradition
of devotion to learning has changed and, as Israel enters a period of
prosperity, it seems to be disappearing.This is reflected in the low
priority which successive governments have given to higher education.The
present Rabin administration, which was elected on a platform which promised
to give top priority to education, quickly forgot this commitment once elected.
Budget cuts, year after year, have squeezed the universities to the
point where they are in danger of becoming second-rate institutions.For
example, 44,360 students were studying in Israel universities in 1972.Their
number grew by 77% to 78,640 in 1992, while the number of academic staff
increased by only 23%.As a result, professors must teach classes whose
size, on the average, is greater by 45% than twenty years ago.At the same
time, there has been a continual erosion of the salaries of academic faculty.
It should be understood that the salaries of academic university staff
are set by the Israeli government.Repeated attempts by the university
professors to receive equitable salaries have been rebuffed by the government.
Our salaries are half of what researchers with the same academic rank in
government companies and research institutes receive.More significantly, a
young faculty member in Israel, with a PhD, on the average 34 years old
(with a rank equivalent to an Assistant Professor in the United States), has a
take-home pay which represents 47% of that which the government itself
publishes as the basic expense for an urban family.The consequences of
such low salaries are already endangering our ability to function properly
and the future looks bleak.Most of us must moonlight, or go abroad for
extended periods to make ends meet.Young people who might otherwise
consider an academic career continue to reject academia in increasing
numbers for private or government jobs in Israel or abroad.We feel that
we can no longer be called upon to maintain world-class universities at the
current level of our salaries.
The strike should therefore be seen as more than just a wage dispute.
Professors, and the students who support them, see the future of higher
education in Israel at stake.If higher education is not given proper
priority, then the scientific and intellectual edge for which Israel
is known, and which it needs to survive, will be jeopardized.In many
respects, the universities are already feeling these effects.
Unfortunately, the government has sent a clear message about its
commitment to higher education through the demeaning rhetoric of the
Prime Minister himself who is reported to have declared that he would
not hesitate to close down all the Israeli universities.In an attempt to
turn public opinion against academic university staff, derogatory comments
in the media by government officials about professors have become daily
occurrences.Listening to governmental spokesmen and politicians, one
wonders if Israel is, in reality, the land of the "People of the Book"!
We turn to you, our colleagues and friends abroad, and ask for your
help in putting our case to the Israeli government, members of parliament
(Knesset), opinion makers, and leaders of industry and commerce.Some of
you have spent time, effort and money helping to build the universities.
Others, have been involved in joint research projects, or had the
opportunity to have spent time here.We know that all of you care.
Please take the time to express your opinion and help us in this
hour of crisis.
________________________________________________________________________
For further information please contact Prof. M. Gur, fax no. 972-3-640-7410.
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Appendix A:
Table 1. Gross income on April 1993 in American dollars.
|------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|------------|
|Rank | University | N.R.I. | Gonv't Comp.|Exper. (yrs)|
|------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|------------|
| Lecturer | 1,637 | 3,618 | 3,748 | 5 |
| | | | | |
| Senior Lecturer| 1,840 | 3,838 | 4,950 | 7 |
| | | | | |
| Assoc. Professor | 2,194 | 4,013 | 6,030 | 13 |
| | | | | |
| Full Professor | 2,777 | 4,564 | 6,783 | 20 |
|------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|------------|
University - All 7 universities of Israel: Ben-Gurion, Bar-Ilan, Haifa,
Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem, Technion, Tel-Aviv, Weizmann Inst.
N.R.I. -National research institutes such as Rafael, Nuclear Res. Ctr, etc.
Government
Companies - Senior workers in positions comparable to faculty members.
Note: In Government companies and in national research institutes they also
have extra benefits such as car expenses, meals, etc.
Reference: H. Kratch & Assoc., Ramat Hasharon.
Table 2. High Education in Israel - Some Basic Statistics.
|-------|----------------|---------------|-------|----------------------|
| Year| Total Students |Senior Faculty | Ratio | GDP/CAP |
| | S (SN) | F (FN) | S/F |(Const $) (normalized)|
|-------|----------------|---------------|-------|----------------------|
| | | | | |
|1972/73| 44,362(1.00) | 3,748 (1.00) | 11.84 | 6,015 (1.00) |
| | | | | |
|1984/85| 61,155(1.38) | 4,296 (1.15) | 14.24 | 6,790 (1.13) |
| | | | | |
|1991/92| 78,640(1.77) | 4,590 (1.23) | 17.13 | 7,755 (1.29) |
| | | | | |
|-------|----------------|---------------|-------|----------------------|
Note: SN, FN, GDP/CAP - Data normalized to 1972/73.
GDP/CAP (Gross Domestic Product per capita) - a measure of wealth
of the country.
Reference: Statistical Abstract of Israel: 1976 (No. 27) pp. 617,619
1993 (No. 44) pp. 193,677,692.
Remark:In the period from 1972 to 1992, while the number of university
students increased by 77%, the university senior faculty staff
only increased by 23%, thus causing an increase of the S/F ratio
from 11.84 to 17.13 (namely an increase of 45%).
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Appendix B:
LIST OF FAX NUMBERS OF ISRAELI MINISTERS
1) Itzchak Rabin (Prime Minister, Defence Minister): 972-3-691-6940
972-2-705-555
2) Shimon Peres (Foreign Minister): 972-2-303-506
3) Beiga Shochat (Tressury minister): 972-2-635-769
4) Amnon Rubinshtein (Education minister): 972-2-292-249
5) Shulamit Alony (communication and science minister): 972-2-240-029
6) Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Construction minister): 972-2-811-904
7) Uzi Bar-am (Tourism minister): 972-2-250-890
8) Micha Harish (Commerce and Industry minister): 972-2-243-738
9) David Libayi (Justice minister): 972-2-285-438
10) Ora Namir (Welfare and Labor minister): 972-2-666-385
11) Yair Tsaban (Absorbtion minister): 972-2-669-244
12) Yaacov Tzur (Agriculture minister): 972-3-696-8899
13) Israel Keysar (Transportation minister): 972-2-319-238
14) Moshe Shahal (Police minister): 972-2-811-832
15) Shimon Shitrit (Economics minister): 972-2-536-101
16) Yossi Sarid (Environment minister): 972-2-611-147
========================================================================
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