Fw: PUBL.- ISAR in Focus, ISAR's Newsletter

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From: "Tamara Kowalski" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:40 PM
Subject: PUBL.- ISAR in Focus, ISAR's Newsletter


> A distribution of: CentralAsia-L - Announcement List for Central Asian
Studies
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> PUBL.- ISAR in Focus, ISAR's Newsletter
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> ISAR: INITIATIVE FOR SOCIAL ACTION AND RENEWAL IN EURASIA
> is pleased to announce the Spring issue of its quarterly newsletter,
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> ISAR in Focus
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> In this issue of ISAR in Focus ISAR's deputy director, Kate Watters,
> describes her first trip to Iran for ISAR's Caspian Program. As a littoral
> state to the Caspian Sea, Iran is an important -- and often neglected
> --partner in working to protect the sea. Read about her impressions of the
> trip and joint activities with ISAR's new contacts.  The newsletter also
> looks at ISAR-Azerbaijan's second annual NGO conference in Baku, and
> ISAR-Siberia's Rivers Conference held in Novosibirsk. We also include an
> update of ISAR-Belarus' activities, and some of the successes of our
> grantees across Central Asia.
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> ISAR promotes citizen participation in the former Soviet Union by
supporting
> grassroots activists and community-based nongovernmental organizations in
> their efforts to create just and sustainable societies. ISAR in Focus
> spotlights news from ISAR's eight field offices in the former Soviet Union
> and offers updates about their successes during the last quarter.
>
> ISAR offices are located in Baku, Azerbaijan; Almaty and Atyrau,
Kazakhstan;
> Moscow, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok, Russia; Kyiv, Ukraine; and the newest
> addition in Minsk, Belarus.
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> To receive a copy of ISAR in Focus, please contact Tamara Kowalski
> ([email protected]). ISAR in Focus is also available on-line and in .pdf
> format from <http://www.isar.org>. The Web site includes information on
> ISAR's programs and an article archive of: Give & Take: A Journal on Civil
> Society in Eurasia, ISAR's quarterly journal; Surviving Together, the
> predecessor of Give & Take; and ISAR in Focus.
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