http://www.pitt.edu:80/~cjp/rsecon.html (World Wide Web Directory, ~04/1995)
The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library :
The InfoMarket server, provided by the Institute for Commercial Engineering (ICE), is arguably the best source of commercial information about Russia available on the Internet. Here you will find REDGAR (data on Russian securities), securities market laws, SKATE-PRESS ON-LINE, with financial and stocks new, quotes, market indices (in Russian), and informative gudies such as "Overview of the Russian Securities Market" and "Institutional Investors' Guide to Russia". There is much more, including a home page for the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (RCRME).
The Department of Commerce announces CEEBICNet, the Central and
Eastern Europe Business Information Center's Home Page. Information posted on CEEBICNet includes trade and investment regulations and incentives; economic and commercial overviews; best prospects for trade and investment; upcoming trade fairs, seminars, and conferences; lists of potential partners and customers; sources of financing and government assistance. In addition, the user can download a free business opportunity database, containing over 500 trade and investment leads.
The Central Library of the Budapest University of Economics has created ECONINFORM (R) (login: EGO) the three-language information system containing a bibliographic database of economic special literature and business information, developed on the basis of UNESCO CDS Micro ISIS 2.3 with the cooperation of MTA SZTAKI KFIIR-labor sponsored by the Information Infrastructure Development Programme. The user can choose to display information in German, Hungarian, or English.
The NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (US Dept. of Commerce) lets you delve into trade information from more than 20 federal agencies. Topics covered include export opportunities, foreign companies and importers looking for products, how-to-market guides and demographic, political and social-economic information about hundreds of countries, including FSU and EE. Other business and trade information from the NTDB:
Two issues of a hypertext Russian business-law journal (in English) Rules And Regulations In Russia were published in 1994. Issue four contains articles about import and export duties, and government controls. Issue three has articles on investments, taxation, intellectual property, and commercial law. They are made available by the St. Petersburg Web.
Brenden West, at the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, has assembled a page of pointers to information about the new Russian economy. His Russian Economy Resource Center has sub-pages on
The German Development Institute undertakes consultancy and training activities on the basis of independent research. It conducts studies on development policy issues for public institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany and abroad and advises them on current aspects of cooperation between industrialized and developing countries. The GDI trains university graduates from the Federal Republic of Germany and other Member States of the European Union for professional service in public and private, German and international development cooperation agencies. Its archive houses its current working papers, such as Helmut Brandt's ALBANIA'S DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS BETWEEN LAND REFORM AND LARGE-SCALE PRIVATIZATION and information about the Institute.
Seven articles on Employee Ownership and Privatization in Russia published on the Foundation for Enterprise Development network.
The E-Forum at the Communications For A Sustainable Future Project Server contains an interesting interview with Mihaly Simai, a professor of international economics at the Budapest Economics University (BKE) on economic development and transformation in Hungary.
The Baltics Online-- a periodical with
A Bibliography on Russian inflation can be found on the Communications For A Sustainable Future server.
The Seanet Russian Home Page, with links to visa applications at the Seattle Russian Consulate, Aeroflot information, and other Russia-related WWW sites. Published by Seattle's Object Software Development, Inc., a developer of Russian-oriented NeXTSTEP software.
Ian Kallen's Post-Soviet Study
Resources on the Internet is a guide to Internet resources, with an
up-to-date (March 1994) guide to listservs and good lists of Eastern
European ftp and gopher sites. The resources covered here are especially
useful for economic research.
A list of contact names and telephone numbers for US International Trade Administration Country Desks and Country Information Specialists contains names and phone numbers for East European and FSU specialists (as well as for the rest of the world) who are available for information about trade policy and business information in those areas.
BelCom, Inc. provides satellite-based private international communications for the oil, hotel and banking industries, and community telecommunications facilities in key business regions throughout the former Soviet Union. Since its founding in 1990, BelCom has provided the essential communications links for the largest multi-national ventures operating in the former Soviet Union.
The ACCESS Czech Republic E-bulletin is being distributed by Albertina Global Data, Inc. The 10-20 articles published each week in the
E-bulletin are selected from about 150+ that are published in the weekly
hard copy of ACCESS Czech Republic Business Bulletin. If you want to
receive these free bulletins each week, you must send a message to the publisher at hewes@traveller.cz with your name and e-mail address.
Please include the word SUBSCRIBE ME in your Subject Line. If you want
more information by post as well, please include your regular address.
NOTE: This is not a Listserv address. ACCESS E-bulletin is being
distributed from a personal account for the time being until they are able
to set up our own node or find a host site for this e-bulletin.
Therefore, please have patience with this method of distribution. You can signoff at any time by sending a message to that effect to the same address above. If anyone with a Listserv is interested in hosting this for me, PLEASE let me know. P.S. The Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) has started daily trading this week (22 Sep 1994). ACCESS E-bulletin will include a weekly stock round-up and exchange rates starting early- to mid-October (1994).
The Ex-USSR Site holds reasonably current (end-1993) listings of the names and titles of heads of state and governmental ministers of FSU nations have been compiled from various sources by Wayne Chinander at the University of Kansas:
CERRO, the Central European Regional Research Organization, located
in Vienna, Austria, provides many economic, business, and marketing
sources on its CERRO
Gopher. Here one can find CERRO's statistic information service about
Central Europe, The Regional Environmental Center Bulletin, Hungarian
Electronic Stocks & Comodities (MET), International Marketing Insights,
C&E Europe, as well as links to other
Central European Gophers.
The University of Chicago's U of C Law
School's Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe was established in 1990 under the auspices of the Law School's Program in Law and Government. Drawing on resources from throughout the University, the Center will undertake a multi-year study of the constitution-making process in the post-Communist nations of Eastern and Central Europe, from the perspectives
of political science, legal theory and the sociology of law. Their quarterly East
European Constitutional Review is available on the University of Chicago gopher, as are theri Occasional Papers, and a very thorough set of files cataloging the Center's Archive Holdings.
NEW REASEARCH TEAM OFFERS FORECASTS OF EASTERN EUROPE --
ECONsult is a new forecasting service specializing in the "Little Tigers" of Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. The service is a partnership between PRiMeR, an international political risk analysis and market research firm, and AISA, a leading market research firm in Central Europe. The new
forecasts will provide not only an analysis of economic sentiment, but
also a quarterly report outlining public expectations of unemployment,
inflation and saving. Projections will also be made about purchases of
consumer durables and automobiles. ECONsult forecasts provide a sensitive measure, and timely analysis of changes in the most dynamic economies. Forecasting methods are strengthened because they measure both the willingness and the ability to purchase. Indicators of overall political satisfaction and
satisfaction with government economic policies are also provided.
Clients of the new service can include their specific strategic
planning and marketing concerns in ECONsult surveys by purchasing
proprietary questions for analysis. ECONsult reasearch adheres to the
ESOMAR and WAPOR codes of social research conduct. Surveys are
nationally representative and conducted by trained interviewers in
respondents' homes. Surveys for the Czech Republic and Slovakia began in Sept.
1994. Lithuania and Estonia surveys will be completed in October, with
Poland to follow in November. Inaugural issues will be available in
early winter. Regular quarterly forecasts begin in 1995, with coverage
of Hungary, Bulgaria and Latvia scheduled early in the year. Their full address is ECONsult Ltd., Reid House, 31 Church Street, Hamilton HM FX BERMUDA
Telephone: 408:385:1049 (California USA) Fax: 408:385:1304 (California USA)
Email: deism@eworld.com
Current
Russian Law: information regarding patent and trademark law and
others, collected and housed by Sergei Naoumov at UNC. Another selection of relevant documents can be found at the nic.funet.fi archive site.
Documents on the Russian economy, ruble zones, and money transfer to/from Russia are available at the nic.funet.fi archive site.
The Department of Commerce's Economic Bulletin Board has many articles dealing with the developing Polish, Russian, and EE markets in its International Market Insights. Its Eastern Europe Trade Leads are current and valuable. The EBB also provides current information on the U.S. economy and trade, as well as other economic data.
The US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has made several recent reports dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe available to the network. Among them are
The Consulate of the Russian Federation in Seattle Washington offers services to the private sector: Information about the economic, financial and business situation in Russia, Information about trade, investment and other business opportunities, particularly in the Russian Far East, Assistance in communicating with Russian federal and local administrations and/or agencies, Assistance in communication with large government-owned businesses and/or private companies, Representation of Russian individuals and businesses, and Introduction and encouragement of partnerships between U.S. and Russian businesses.
Latvia has recently come online with new gopher and web sites. The Latvian Home Page is up, and the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Gopher offers the following: News of Latvia contains reports of the News agency LETA with current events of Latvia in English as well as the up-to-date and thorough daily English-language reports of Baltic News Agency (BNS) and some issues of its English-language publication Baltic Business Weekly. The Laws of Latvia are here, in Latvian, as is General Information in English from the US State Department. The file Latvian Statistics in Brief 1994 is the most current report from the State Committee for Statistics of the Republic of Latvia, 1994. Questions or comments can be directed to Bruno Martuzans at bruno@mii.lu.lv.
Miscellaneous information on Travel in
Russia, accomodations, networking, language study, from the collective
intelligence of the Net (via Bill Ross), circa 1993. In addition,
comprehensive materials on US Visas,
Immigration and Emigration to and from the Former Soviet Union.
An archive of general-interest Information about Slovakia contains information on: Accommodations, Banks, money etc..., Basic information on Slovakia, Bicycle Touring, Business, economical press, stock exchanges...,
Churches and religions, Slovak embassies and consular representations, Culture, Customs and Duties, Traveling on Danube, Driving, Government and History of Slovakia and Bratislava, Information Centres, Insurance companies, International broadcasting in Slovak, Politics, Postal services and couriers, Media in Slovakia, recipes-of-slovak-cuisine, Sport, Telecommunications, Transportation and Travel, Interesting trips, TV, and more.
The ICM - Information Center Mathematics is a co-operative venture involving the STEKLOV INSTITUTE in Russia (the Mathematics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY in Ireland. The ICM Information System (login ICM) provides an index of mathematicians and of organisations employing professional mathematicians in Russia and in the states of the former USSR as well as information about publications and services available from the ICM.
Directories of Ukrainian
Commerce and Non-Governmental
Organizations.
A searchable list of FSU Non-Governmental Agencies, a set of pointers to business and NGO contacts in Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, are kept on the gopher of Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
UC Berkeley's Polish Archive contains the World Bank Brief on Polish agriculture
and agribusiness, and the document Assisting Poland in Transition, by members of the USDA Extension
Service and Polish/American Extension Project is available.
Information on Polish Stock
Exchange data, archive, and the GIELDA listserver.
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