Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
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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 33
August 13-19, 1996
Social Foundation "Glasnost"
Opens a Branch in Krasnodar
The foundation "Glasnost," led by well-known human rights
activist Sergei Grigoryants, has opened a new branch in
Krasnodar headed by Duma Deputy Vladimir Grizan to promote
glasnost, to provide protection of constitutional principles
such as freedom of speech and expression, and to support
citizens' participation in creating and developing free
information exchange.
One of the first initiatives of the new "Glasnost" branch
was to create a social foundation to resist organized crime
and corruption in Krasnodar. Named "Anti-Mafia," it will
work closely with the Interregional Department for Fighting
Organized Crime and other law enforcement agencies, and will
support families of law protection workers killed while on
duty. All citizens, including deputies of all levels,
journalists, lawyers, law-enforcement agents, crime victims,
and others, can participate in both foundations' activities.
Address of the Glasnost office in Krasnodar:
ul. Shaumyana 36, Suite 214
Krasnodar, 350001
Tel.: (8612) 52-26-39, 52-20-97
Contact: Vladimir Grizan, chair
Moscow Oblast Center
to Support Social Organizations
Created by the Foundation "Sem'ya"
The Center to Support Social Organizations of the Moscow
Oblast, created half a year ago by the association "Sem'ya"
(Family), offers training programs and seminars, information
and literature for NGOs, consultations on project proposals
and implementation, and round tables on Third Sector issues.
The Center also offers consultations by a psychologist. The
Center now works with over 40 associations in 20 towns near
Moscow, such as Sergiev Posad, Troitsk, Zhukovskoe, and
Mytishi. The Center's activities are supported by a grant
from the Eurasia Foundation within the Civic Initiatives
Support Program. To accommodate visitors, the Center is
open on weekends.
Contact tel.: 551-3216 (Elena Egorova)
Antinuclear Campaign Stopped
Entrance of The Ship with Uranium
into the Port of Kaliningrad
On August 11, the ship "Amber-2" with a cargo of uranium
left the harbor of Kaliningrad without docking in this port
as a result of the protest actions by the Socio-Ecological
Union's Antinuclear campaign and other Russian
nongovernmental organizations. The ship had stayed in
coastal waters off Kaliningrad for 6 days on its way from
St. Petersburg to San-Francisco expecting to enter the port
for additional cargo and technical support. Previously, the
ship was denied entrance to the port of Klaipeda
(Lithuania), but it was given permission by city authorities
to enter the port of Kaliningrad. Socio-Ecological Union
reports that a similar campaign has started in San
Francisco.
Contact tel. for the Socio-Ecological Union in Moscow: (095)
298-3087
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A New Movement "Disabled for Social Justice"
Was Formed in Nizhny Novgorod
On August 22, a meeting of social nongovernmental
organizations for the disabled was held at the Nizhny
Novgorod office of the Russian Peace Fund to form a new
movement to protect rights of the disable people.
For more information, contact: (812) 33-02-75
A Seminar on International Humanitarian Law
is Held in Sergiev Posad
Between August 22 and 30, the Russian Red Cross Association
is organizing a seminar to introduce representatives of
Russian universities to methods of teaching international
humanitarian law, including the issues of refugees, human
rights, and Red Cross operations on the territory of Russia.
Among participants are faculty members and scientists from
institutes of higher learning of Russia and other NIS
countries, representatives of the Presidential
administration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation, Embassy of the Swiss Confederation in Moscow,
OSCE mission in Russia, and human rights and other
nongovernmental groups.
Address of the seminar: pr. Krasnoi Armii 192 (library)
Sergiev Posad
Tel.: (254) 2-39-48
DOE/AAAS Announces
Travel Fellowship Program on Environment and Health
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announce a program of
travel fellowships for five young scientists from countries
of Eastern and Central Europe and NIS. The topic of the
1997 fellowship is "Clinical and Dose Reconstruction Aspects
of the Relationship between Glandular Disease and Exposure
to Radioactive Iodine." Specialists with previous
experience of dealing with this issue, such as
epidemiologists, doctors, and others, and those studying
this issue are encouraged to apply. Applicants should
possess a degree, obtained no earlier than August 1987, be
fluent in English, and be allowed by local authorities to
leave the country. Selected fellows will be invited to an
annual meeting of scholars in Seattle, WA, on February 13-
18, 1997, to present their projects.
Application deadline is September 30, 1996. Applications
will be reviewed by an independent admission committee and
results will be announced on October 31, 1996. For more
information, contact:
Ms. Mary Beth Boswell, AAAS
1200 New York Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20005
Tel.: (202) 326-6427
Fax: (202) 289-4958
E-mail: [email protected]
Center for Women's Initiatives
Helps Women to Get New Skills
The Center for Women's Initiatives is a charitable
organization established in the late 1995 with the support
of the German Association of People's Universities to
provide educational and training programs for women. The
Center opened a school of free training in crafts for women
at risk, including unemployed, disabled, and refugees, in
the town of Tosno, Leningradskaya oblast. The school helps
women to get new specializations in making leather goods,
embroidery, knitting, and other skills. The Center for
Women's Initiatives is looking for similar organizations to
establish partnership relations. Contact information:
ul. Stanislavskogo 2, kv. 13
Tosno, Leningradskaya oblast
Tel./fax: (261) 29-403
Non-Governmental Organizations to Form
Citizens' Committee of Moscow
Representatives of a few nongovernmental organizations,
including ecologico-cultural center "Tsaritsino," the
international charitable fund "Interlegal," the society
"Sem'ya" (Family), the foundation "For the Sake of the
Future," and the movement "Children for Environmental
Protection and Humanity," suggested forming a citizens'
committee in Moscow, which will serve as a social mechanism
of regulating relations between governmental authorities and
social organizations, particularly related to the use of
finances and city management.
One of the initiators of the project, D. Georgis, chair of
the organization "Children for Environmental Protection and
Humanity," said that the committee--Council on City Self-
Management--will be a way for citizens and nongovernmental
nonprofit organizations to participate in governmental
decision-making and city development. The committee will
carry on the traditions of the Russian Zemstvo, an
independent body of local self-government, which monitored
local authorities and participated in local and financial
decision-making. The source of funding for Zemstvo will be
a part of the city's budget, not less than 3 per cent of
Moscow enterprises' profit (the amount will be covered by
taxes paid by enterprises or they can donate the same
amount).
The functions of the new establishment will include
legislative initiatives; promoting the development of self-
government and social organizations; determining expenses on
social needs and mechanisms of distributing funding between
involved organizations; supporting development of small-
scale businesses and enterprises; protecting the interests
of citizens and nonprofit and commercial organizations in
Moscow's Duma and government; monitoring use of taxpayers'
money for social needs, and representing citizens' opinion
and providing citizens' participation in governmental
initiatives and activities.
D. Georgis argues that the suggested model will let
nongovernmental organizations to get funding not in the form
of grants from particular sponsors, but through the
centralized system of collecting enterprises' taxes and
distributing them on social programs.
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