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Excerpts from ASI bulletin 25, (20-26 June, 1997)...
CCSI presents excerpts from the Agency for Social Information
(ASI) e-mail information bulletin. Translated from the
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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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Youth Charity Nursing Service
a project of the Moscow Committee of the Red Cross
An awards ceremony was held on June 25 by the Moscow Committee of
the Red Cross (MKKK) for the best nurses in MKKK�s youth charity
nursing service. 20 out of 75 young women--students at medical
institutes who have been working in the youth charity nursing
service--received prizes.
The youth charity nursing service was established in October 1996
by MKKK and the Moscow Center for Labor and Full Employment of
Youth "Perspective." The Moscow Red Cross needs 700 people to
serve the needs of sick people who live alone, the elderly and the
handicapped, but there are only 278 people currently employed.
According to official statistics, the governmental social medical
service covers only about 86 percent of those citizens who need
such help.
Nowadays there are 236 needy Muscovites under the patronage of a
group of young nurses. The nurses work both in the home and in
the offices of medical-social assistance within the local
committees of the Red Cross, providing pre-doctor�s visit
assistance.
The youth charity nursing service is expanding its sphere of
activities to include work in clinics and hospitals. An agreement
has already been concluded with Moscow clinical hospital No. 31.
Contact telephone numbers: (095) 201-4009 (Aleksei Dimitrievich
Tyulyandin, chairman of the MKKK), (095) 310-7222 (Elena
Vladimirovna Lokhvitskaya, center "Perspective")
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Women�s Projects Find Support
An international conference, "Woman in a Changing World," was
organized on June 16 -17 by the international institute "Woman and
Government," the Confederation of Working Women of Russia, and the
St. Petersburg city government. Participants of the meeting
discussed the position of women under the conditions of socio-
economic reform, including such problems as: competitiveness and
the full employment of women; adapting to new economic conditions;
the economic, political, and social aspects of women�s position
within the government; female (family) entrepreneurship; and
resources to support small enterprise.
The fourth exhibition of business projects "Women�s Project �97"
was held June 18-20 in the Anichkovii palace (St. Petersburg).
The purpose was to show the achievements and possibilities of
female and family entrepreneurship in Russia and to aid the
expansion and establishment of business ties and the creation of
partnerships with female entrepreneurs in Russia and foreign
countries, to share experiences in creating new jobs, and to
attract investors to finance business projects.
Over 100 projects of female-run businesses were presented, many of
which have social value. One of the projects--the Center for
Problems of Youth and Education "Planet"--offers judicial,
psychological, and informational services for teenagers 14 - 18
years old. As a result of the exhibition, 22 female-run business
projects received financial support.
Contact telephone: (812) 277-7564; 277-1145 (the international
institute "Woman and Government")
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Residents of Novorossissk Unite Against
the Caspian Pipeline Consortium
On June 22 in Novorossiisk residents of the city and
representatives from local villages and settlements held a city-
wide conference to organize a people�s association for the
ecological protection of the Black Sea coast in the Krasnodar
region.
The reason for establishing the association was to unite efforts
to solve the ecological problems of the Black Sea coast. The
association's first project will be to unite people against the
project of the Caspian pipeline consortium, which is planning to
lay an oil pipeline through the territory of a local game reserve
and the village of Yuzhnaya Ozereika.
The initiative for forming the association came from the committee
for self-government of the village of Yuzhnaya Ozereika, which had
received support of all the "green" groups in Novorossiisk and
surrounding areas. The non-governmental organization "Greens,"
the film studio "Akvatoriya," the Yuzhnaya Ozereika committee for
self-government, the residents of local villages and settlements,
as well as prominent scholars and representatives of the
Novorossiisk public joined the association.
At the conference members of the association�s council were
elected. Also a decision was made to conduct a wide-reaching
campaign in the local mass media to spread accurate information
about the Caspian pipeline consortium project and the feelings of
the community on this issue.
Telephone number: (8612) 50-8461 (Svetlana Rubashkina).
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The Commercial Firm "Light of Fortune"
Finds Work For Graduates of Children�s Homes
The founder of the commercial firm "Light of Fortune," Sergei
Yakovlev, worked for over 20 years as a teacher of history and an
educator in boarding school No. 3 for orphans and those without
parental care. Quite often the wards of children�s homes cannot
find well-paying jobs. But at "Light of Fortune," which sells
goods to passengers at Kazan station, the children earn one
hundred thousand (rubles) a day. The firm has found jobs for 20
graduates of the school in the past three years.
The supervisor of the station Sultan Yakubov helps the firm anyway
he can. At the station, repairs have been underway for three
years and many places of business have been closed. But for the
firm "Light of Fortune" a pavilion and a store were built on the
platform. Soon they will be able to organize several more
positions for kids from children�s homes. ""Light of Fortune" is
one of several commercial firms which think not only about their
pocketbook, but also fulfill their social duty," says S. Yakubov.
Contact telephone: (095) 266-0095 (Sergei Aleksandrovich
Yakovlev).
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Fifth Annual Conference of Committee of Soldiers� Mothers
Held in Moscow
Representatives of Committees of Soldiers� Mothers from 45 regions
of Russia took part in the fifth annual conference of the
Committee of Soldiers� Mothers of Russia in Moscow on June 21-22.
The conference was dedicated to developing a strategy of action to
protect rights through the year 2000. Among the topics discussed
were: military legislation; methods of protecting the rights of
people of pre-draft and draft age; how to address individual
complaints; and issues arising from the Chechen war.
Of special interest was the fact that representatives of the
President�s Commission on the Investigation of Prisoners of War
and MIAs spoke at the conference. M. Feulova, a member of the
coordinating council of the Committee of Soldiers� Mothers of
Russia and a member of the President's Commission, noted, that
"the members of the commission work conscientiously, they do all
that is possible for the return of prisoners and to aid the
investigation and exhumation of those Russians killed in
Chechnya." Thanks to the assistance of the commission, the
Committee of Soldiers� Mothers of Russia has obtained observance
of legal norms regarding the treatment of former prisoners of war.
Not one soldier who has turned to the Committee of Soldiers�
Mothers has been sent back to their (army) unit or condemned.
The representative in Russia of the Chechen Republic State
committee, V. Tekilov, asked the mothers to present information on
the location of Russian prisoners of war. He said that the
Chechen side at the present time is working on the problem of
resuming the repatriation of Russian prisoners of war not with the
government of the Russian Federation, but directly with the
mothers, as it was during the war.
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A New Organization is Established in Nizhny Novgorod to Fight AIDS
On June 24 the Nizhny Novgorod city administrative offices hosted
a presentation by the non-governmental charitable foundation
"anti-AIDS" and the journal "Man and Health." The founder of the
Foundation and one of the sponsors of the journal--the commercial
firm "Nizhpharm"--has been involved with philanthropy for a
number of years. The chairman of the board of directors, Andrei
Mladentsev, has more than once supported various medical programs
as well as countless measures and activities of non-governmental
organizations. The goal of the foundation is to establish an
extra-budgetary source of financing for the prevention of AIDS on
this region, which has the fourth largest number of cases of HIV
infection in Russia.
The foundation already has its own page on the Internet:
http://www.bis-nn.ru
Telephone number for information: (8312) 36-41-35.
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