The Socio-Ecological Union, founded in 1988, serves as an umbrella group for more than 250 environmental non-governmental organizations in the NIS. So it's no surprise that the SEU's World Wide Web site is one of thefirst places to go when looking for information about NGOs working on a whole range of environmental issues in the NIS.

SEU's site, which is located on the Glasnet World Wide Web server in Moscow, contains a large number of documents and can be a little confusing to navigate around in. The site includes information about SEU, its history, its structure and statutes, and its Center for Coordination and Information. Especially interesting are the lists of contact information of environmental NGOs and the collection of NGO information bulletins.

Important documents include:

• From the SEU home page the link for "Antiyadernaya Kampaniya SoES" (Antinuclear Campaign) leads to a list of atomic power stations in Russia and a review of the anti-nuclear activities that have taken place there.

• "Kollektivnye chleny i otdeleniya Sotsial'no-Ekologicheskogo Soyuza" (Collective Members and Branches) lists 250 SEU members in 17 countries (NIS, U.S., Great Britain, Netherlands, Austria and Germany) with their addresses, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses.

• "Ekologo-Prosvetitel'skaya Deyatel'nost'" (Ecological Educational Activities) leads to a list of newspapers, journals and brochures on environmental issues. From here you can access a variety of NGO newsletters, including:

+ Energetika i Okruzhayuschaya Sreda (Energy and Environment), a joint publication of the Ecological Center "Dront" (Nizhnyi Novgorod) and SEU's Center of Atomic Ecology and Energy Policy.

+ Acid Rain, the newsletter of an organization of the same name in the Lipetsk region of Russia.

+ Khraniteli Radugi, the bulletin of Rainbow Keepers, a �radical� environmental group which engages in such actions as releasing animals from hospital labs and blockading construction sites of chemical and nuclear plants in various cities, including Saratov, Samara and Nizhni Novgorod.

+ Ekozaschita, the monthly news bulletin published by Ecodefense in Kaliningrad.

+ Livenet is SEU's own electronic news bulletin. The link "LIVENET" leads to a list of e-mail addresses of Livenet members. The link �Livenet-info� leads to an archive of more than 200 messages posted to Livenet over the last couple of years.

+ My - zhiteli Zemli (We Are Citizens of the Earth) the newsletter of the Karakalpak Center "Perzent."

The URL for SEU's home page is: http://cci.glasnet.ru/WIN/SEU/INDEX.HTM

Most of the documents are coded in Cyrillic fonts for Windows. For more information about how to load different Cyrillic fonts on your computer in order to read Russian World Wide Web sites, visit the Glasnet home page at: http://www.glasnet.ru

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