Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:32:49 -0700 (PDT)
CCSI presents excerpts from the Agency for Social Information
(ASI) e-mail information bulletin. Translated from the
Russian by Dana Tumenova, CCSI intern. For more information
on how to receive ASI's bulletin regularly, contact:
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AGENTSTVO SOTSIALNOI INFORMATSII
Kutuzovskyi pr. 22 pod. 14a,
Moscow, 121151
Tel./fax: (095) 249-3989
E-mail: [email protected]
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N 32
August 6-12, 1996
Russian NGOs Developed Alternative Plan
on Environmental Protection in Russia
Over 50 Russian NGOs have created an alternative plan to
reflect public opinion and input on the Russian government's
National Plan of Environmental Protection Actions which was
created without NGO and public participation. The NGOs'
Alternative Plan was initiated and organized by the
"Ecosoglasie" (Ecoagreement) Center to attract public
attention to environmental problems and to demonstrate the
need for reforms based not upon governmental directives, but
"from below" and from citizens' participation in shaping
state policy. The "Ecosoglasie" contact phone number in
Moscow is (095)280-8067.
Charity Foundation "Russian Family"
Provides Entertainment for Children
The children's museum "House of Fairy Tales" was created by
the charity foundation "Russian Family" a year and a half ago
as a cultural and entertainment center for children. All
events at the museum are free and parents have to put their
names on a waiting list in order to visit the museum,
sometimes even two months in advance. Fairy tale characters
accompany children in their tour of the museum and children
can dress in costumes of their favorite personages and
improvise a performance.
"Russian Family" also sponsors a chidlren's newspaper "Zhili-
Byli . . ." (Once upon a time there was. . .) and a traveling
puppet theater, which gives performances in hospitals and
children's boarding houses under the project "Fairy Tale in a
Hospital."
Contact phone number for the "Russian Family" charity
foundation in Moscow: (095) 250-3000.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Seminar of the Independent Women's Forum
in Moscow
August 23-26, the Information Center of the Independent
Women's Forum is organizing a seminar on women's rights and
problems in a transitional society. The seminar coincides
with the second anniversary of the Information and Education
project of the Independent Women's Forum. As part of the
seminar, the Forum will organize a meeting of Russian women's
grassroots organizations on August 26 at 4:00 PM.
Contact phone number in Moscow: (095) 366-9274
Internews-Moscow Created a Web Page
on Mass Media
A new World Wide Web Page on mass media has been created to
promote information exchange among journalists and contains
materials from the National Association of TV Broadcasting,
Journalists' Union of Russia, Russian-American Press
Information Center, the Duma's Commission on Mass Media, and
a number of other sources. Most of the materials are in
Russian and can be read in CP1251 Cyrillic for Windows font.
The project was implemented with the support of the Eurasia
Foundation and Soros Foundation. The site also has
information on Ukrainian mass media.
The URL of the page is http://www.internews.ras.ru.
Information on Ukrainian mass media is at
http://www.internews.kiev.ua.
Information about Internews can be accessed at
http://www.internews.org.
Comments and suggestions about the page are welcome. The
phone number for Eric Johnson, Internews in Moscow, is: (095)
973-2144
Open Society Institute
and Library of Congress
Announce Fellowship Program
The Open Society Institute's Regional Program on Libraries in
Budapest (Hungary) and the Library of Congress in Washington,
DC, invite librarians and information specialists from
Central Europe and NIS to participate in a 1997 training
program on the American library system, Internet resources
and library management. The training session is seven
weeks and includes lectures, seminars, practical experience
and use of the Internet.
Application deadline is September 6, 1996. Applicants should
have a good command of English and must take the Test Of
English as Foreign Language (TOEFL). For more information,
contact:
Melissa Hagemann
Open Society Institute
P.O. Box 10/25, Budapest 114
1525 Hungary
Tel.: (361) 327-3100
Fax: (361) 327-3101
E-mail: [email protected]
Program "Hand of Help" of the Foundation "Names"
to Assist People with HIV/AIDS
The program "Hand of Help" is intended to provide
psychological support and legal assistance for people with
HIV/AIDS and their families. Among the Foundation's workers
are people with HIV/AIDS.
For more information, contact its offices in Moscow and other
cities:
P.O. Box 130
Moscow 113303
Tel./fax: (095) 263-1093, 261-4992
Contact: Roman Dudnik
St.Petersburg:
Tel.: (812) 259-9481,
Fax: (812) 580-8260
Contact: Sergei Tsvetov
Rostov-on-Don:
Tel.: (8632) 66-94-72
Fax: (8632) 34-47-11
Contact: Marina Malysheva
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