Civil Society...East and West

September 1993
Volume 1, Number 3

• Economic Reform and NGOs in the NIS, comments by CCSI Executive Director Holt Ruffin

• Ukrainian-American Partnerships to be Focus of October 8-10 Conference in D.C.

• Programs that Place Business Volunteers in the NIS:
  • Citizens Democracy Corps places Americans with significant business experience in small and medium sized firms.

  • Peace Corps expects to have more than 500 American volunteers in NIS by end of 1993 teaching English or helping small businesses

  • International Executive Service Corps hopes to place more than 200 business executives with NIS businesses, government offices, educational, health care, and other institutions.

  • Financial Services Volunteer Corps places senior bankers, attorneys, and other experienced practitioners in the financial sector with NIS enterprises and government ministries.

  • National Forum Foundation places volunteers with experience in public administration, economic development and journalism in Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe

• Junior Achievement: Russian high school student take top prizes in international business competition

• Russian-language Business Books and Curriculum:
  • Essentials of Accounting: Russian translation of this popular college text has already sold over 100,000 copies.

  • Management Accounting: Three part course in Russian designed for self-study, includes textbook, exercise book, and cassette tapes

  • Secondary School Curriculum of Market Economics: Soros Foundation and Russian Miniistry of Education organize workshops to train teachers to teach market economics

  • Success, Inc. The Powerful Business Plan Writer: Computer program which helps write a comprehensive business plan has been customized and translated into Russian.

  • Comic Books, They Are. Mickey Mouse, They're Not: Soros Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank prepare comic books to explain basics of market economy to students and general public.

• BISNIS: Department of Commerce operates the Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States publishing a newsletter and Flashfax service

• Law of the NIS: The Bottom Line newsletter on law in the NIS published by Chadbourne and Park.

• Democratic Development Center in Latvia: produces textbooks on democracy and market economy

• Alliance of American and Russian Women: newsletter praises directory of prospective business partners

• SilkNet: electronic communication network for Central Asia

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