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Excerpts from ASI bulletin 29, (18-24 July, 1997)...
CCSI presents excerpts from the Agency for Social Information
(ASI) e-mail information bulletin. Translated from the
Russian for CCSI by Michelle Fuqua. For more information
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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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THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN PRESS AND INFORMATION CENTER (RAPIC) BEGINS THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW PROGRAM "INTERNET FOR JOURNALISTS"
Since 1992 RAPIC has conducted programs for Russian journalists on
how to use new informational technology. Among these is a yearly
international conference "New Media for a New World." The goals of the
project are to assist the establishment in Russia of an informational
network and a system to prepare journalists by providing them with a
command of modern telecommunications and informational technology.
With the assistance of the US Agency for International Development
(USAID), a computer center is being established in Moscow where the media
from the capital and other areas of the country will be instructed in
various forms of computer journalism. The workers at the RAPIC
instructional center, along with guest specialists, will teach the
fundamentals of computer and telecommunications technology in journalism,
including, in particular, issues associated with using the Internet for
the collection of news and the preparation of analytical publications, the
conduct of journalistic investigations, and other topics.
The Internet media service established at RAPIC gives the regional
mass media located outside the capital the opportunity to participate in
the programs at a distance. The Internet service provides informational
resources for journalists, including: bulletins on issues of freedom of
access to information, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials
on problems of the profession (newspaper-magazine management, journalistic
etiquette, legislation on mass media, telecommunications-computer
technology). Regional newspapers will have the opportunity to reach a
wide audience with electronic versions of their papers via the virtual
newspaper kiosk on the RAPIC server.
In 1997 RAPIC, with the support of the US Information Agency
(USIA), will hold a competition among regional media to participate in a
project to establish an association of Russian journalists on the
Internet. Also among the tasks of the center is to assist in the
introduction into the curriculum of Russian journalism departments of
regular courses on telecommunications information technology in the mass
media, and on the design and management of electronic network publications
and advertisements.
The program is starting a series of seminars for teachers in
journalism departments and faculties in Russian institutes of higher
learning on the theme "Telecommunications Computer Technology in
Journalism," which is conducted with support from the "Open Society"
Institute. A channel to the Internet (128 Kbps) is provided by the
company "Golden Line," owners of a network of digital access to Moscow
using fiber-optic lines and, at the time of the first seminar, by the
Internet provider company "Relline." The learning center uses the
equipment of the Russian computer company "Stel."
Address of the center: Moscow, Prechistenka St., 10, room 3.
Telephone: 203-4187.
IN TOLYATII, THE EDUCATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES
HAS FINISHED ITS WORK
The school was organized by the Moscow Center for Gender Research
and the Samarskii State University Department of Foreign History, with
financial support from the Ford Foundation (USA). Over 60 scholars and
graduate students from 26 cities in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Central
Europe, and USA took part in the 1997 summer school. The participants
were selected by competition.
Those present had the opportunity to hear lectures and participate
in the work of over 100 seminars, training sessions, round tables,
informal meetings, and a discussion club. According to the participants,
the lectures, presentations, and seminars enabled Russian scholars to look
at issues in the areas of sociology, history, cultural studies, and other
sciences in a new light. As the school's guests of honor, prominent
Russian and foreign scholars, including the academics N. M. Rimashevskaya
and E. F. Molevich, professors Mary Makoli and S. I. Golod, gave lectures
to the participants. They praised highly the professional level of the
instructional programs and agreed to become members of the scientific
council for the planning of the gender research summer school.
As the results of the school's work indicate, a new scientific
community of scholars and teachers interested in the development of gender
studies in our country is taking shape in Russia. The general approach in
the social and humanitarian sciences is fundamentally a new theory based
on the ideology of the equality of men and women... In the words of
the summer school's director Zoya Khotkina, "gender studies in Russia
today is a net of scientific centers and departments in about 20 regions
that are constantly widening on the basis of an influx of new scholars and
the active interest of youth."
Telephone for the Moscow Center for Gender Research: 125-6419,
133-0719.
"KEEPERS OF THE RAINBOW" PROTEST THE CONSTRUCTION IN VOLGODONSK OF THE
FIRST BLOCK OF THE ROSTOVSKII ATOMIC POWER STATION
On June 16, in the region of the station, an international
ecological protest camp was established by the radical environmental
movement "Keepers of the Rainbow." To support the legal demands of the
local population, participants have arrived from various cities in Russia,
Belorussia, Ukraine, Tadzhikistan, Germany, and Finland.
Since June 19, in Volgodonsk, an anti-nuclear information point
established by the participants of the movement has been continually open.
Every day a detail of militia arrives at the information point and the
camp to compile a list of all those taking part in the camp. The
administration of the nuclear power station has begun to conduct an
"alternative picket" next to the "Keepers of the Rainbow" information
point.
In April, the ecological society found out that, in accordance
with the decree of the Russian government, "On the completion of work has
also displayed the works of artists from St. Petersburg.
"Movement F" regularly has club days, at which moral, ethical,
confessional, and social problems are discussed. Thus, on June 26, minors
from DF took part in the proceedings of a round table "Problems of
preventing teenage crime," which was organized by a group of
non-governmental and informal youth organizations from Moscow.
Telephone: 152-4658 (Svetlana Solomonovna Levitina)
THE SARATOV BRANCH OF THE UNION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE BIRDS OF RUSSIA
ASKS FOR SUPPORT OF THE PROTEST AGAINST THE ACTIVITIES BY LUKOIL ON THE
TERRITORY OF A FEDERAL GAME RESERVE IN SEMENOVSKII (SARATOVSKII)
The company LukOil is in the process of erecting towers, although
they have not received permission from the regional and local ecological
committees and the project has not gone through an ecological examination
on the federal level. This work breaks numerous statutes of the laws "On
the protection of the environment" and "On specially protected
territories," the Legal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as
numerous international conventions and regulations.
The game reserve was established to protect two types of rare
birds which are listed in the Russian Red Book (a book which lists the
officially recognized endangered species of Russia - trans.)
Address for the Saratov branch of the Union for the Protection of
the Birds of Russia: 410601 Saratov, P.O. Box 3321. Fax: (8452) 24-28-64.
THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD WILL HAVE ITS OWN CHURCH
Members of Nizhny Novgorod's Armenian community are waiting for a
decision from the city's head architect regarding the location of the
church. City authorities are considering two spots: on Gryzinskii Street
or next to the Seventh Day Adventist church on Yamskii Street.
The church was first built in 1826 on Yarmarochnii Square. After
the 1917 revolution it was completely destroyed. "Now the construction
will have to start from zero," said Lidiya Samkovich to ASI's
correspondent. "We have no funds, but we hope to receive land and place a
cross on it." . . .
Telephone: (8312) 23-64-16 (Lidiya Levonovna Samkovich)
THE FOUNDING CONGRESS OF THE ANTI-NARCOTICS YOUTH FEDERATION OF RUSSIA
WILL RUN FROM AUGUST 13 - 15 IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD
Participants are expected to include representatives of the
government commission for the war against drug addiction, the state
committee on problems of the youth of the Russian Federation, and
education ministries, as well as the leaders of international and
all-Russian anti-drug organizations and sobriety societies.
Contact telephone: (8312) 37-13-21.
THE EURASIA FOUNDATION BEGINS A NEW PROJECT IN NOVGOROD
The socio-psychological center "Trust" (Novgorod) with the support
of the Eurasia Foundation is beginning a project to establish a public
center for non-governmental, non-commercial organizations. The project
envisions a program to disburse small grants.
Telephone: (81622) 3-47-95 (Nadezhda Lisitsina)
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