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Author Ruffin, M. Holt

Title The post-Soviet handbook : a guide to grassroots organizations and Internet resources in the newly independent states / M. Holt Ruffin, Joan McCarter, Richard Upjohn ; foreword by S. Frederick Starr
Published Seattle, [Wash.] : Center for Civil Society International, in association with University of Washington Press, c1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 391 p.)
Contents Cover; The Post-Soviet Handbook; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Guide to Foreign Words and Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; U.S.-Based Organizations; Clearinghouse Organizations; Special Focus Organizations; NIS-Based Organizations; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Georgia; Kazakstan; Kyrgyzstan; Moldova; Russia: West of the Urals; Russia: East of the Urals; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan; Internet Resources; Internet Access in the NIS; Electronic Mailing Lists; NIS-Related Internet Sites; Online News Sources; Electronic Directories and Lists
Sending and Receiving in CyrillicAppendices; Additional Resources; Index of NIS Cities with Grassroots Organizations; Index of U.S.-Based Organizations
Summary The Soviet Union's demise in 1991 resulted in 15 independent nations and a legacy of crime and corruption, public insecurity, and even civil wars. More positive and lasting, if less visible, has been the formation of dynamic new organizations by public-spirited citizens working to make their institutions more humane, their economies more productive, their environments cleaner, and their legal systems more just
The Post-Soviet Handbook documents the enormous variety of these grassroots initiatives. It is the only guide of its kind, identifying and describing the real architects and builders of democratic progress across this vast and pivotal region, from the Research Center for Human Rights in Moscow to the Red Crescent Society in Azerbaijan and the Wildlife Foundation in Khabarovsk. It provides extensive contact information for hundreds of independent associations, and describes their principal programs and activities. This compendium is an essential resource for scholars, policy makers, business leaders, activists and anyone interested in collaborative projects with these groups
In addition, a special section introduces the abundance of Internet resources related to the newly independent states (NIS), from electronic mailing lists to World Wide Web and Gopher sites, as well as utilities for moving from Latin characters to Cyrillic and vice-versa. Other sections provide contact information for more than 20 clearinghouse organizations and describe more than 150 projects in the NIS created by U.S.-based entities, ranging from cultural exchanges to financial sector reforms and housing development
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
SUBJECT Atarazanas Valencia gnd
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava gnd
Subject Associations, institutions, etc. -- Former Soviet republics -- Directories
Pressure groups -- Former Soviet republics -- Directories
Internet addresses -- Former Soviet republics -- Directories
Pressure groups -- Former Soviet republics -- Directories
Internet addresses -- Former Soviet republics -- Directories
REFERENCE -- General.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
Associations, institutions, etc.
Computer network resources
Internet addresses
Pressure groups
Adressbuch
Nachfolgestaaten
Organisation
Telekommunikationsnetz
Internet
Politieke organisaties.
Sociale bewegingen.
Internet.
Administration publique -- Ex-URSS -- Répertoires.
Associations -- Ex-URSS -- Répertoires.
Groupes de pression -- Ex-URSS -- Répertoires.
SUBJECT Former Soviet republics -- Computer network resources -- Directories
Subject Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Sowjetunion
Ex-URSS -- Réseau d'ordinateurs -- Annuaires.
Genre/Form Directories
Form Electronic book
Author McCarter, Joan
Upjohn, Richard
LC no. 2021700687
ISBN 9780295999760
0295999764