new Belarusian publication in English

[curt fredric woolhiser]

Dear SEELANGers,

Some of you may be interested in the following message from Dr. Adam
Mal'dzis, president of the International Association for Belarusian
Studies, concerning a planned English-language version of the Association's
bulletin, Kantakty i dyjalohi.

>X-Sender: mab at gw.lingvo.minsk.by (Unverified)
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:58:00 +0300
>To: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu
>From: MAB <mab at gw.lingvo.minsk.by>
>Subject: Infarmacyja
>
>
>Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
>The International Association for Belarusian Studies and the F. Skaryna
>Educational Centre have been issuing the information-and-analysis
>cultural bulletin "Kantakty i Dyjalohi" (Contakts and Dialogues) for
>two years already. The bulletin is a Belarusian language monthly with
>exclusive scientific and journalistic materials focusing on social sciences,
>history, theory and history of culture of the Belarusian nation, news of the
>Belarusian Diaspora world-wide, information on international conferences and
>seminars in Belarusian studies, book reviews, highlights of Belarus'
>contacts with the countries of America, Asia and Europe.
>
>Willing to target a wider audience, the Committee of the International
>Association for Belarusian Studies decided to launch a similar English
>language publication. However, a necessary prerequisite for this is the
>finding of not less than 400 subscribers for a term of 6 to 12 months
>at the cost of $ 6.5 per issue, postage included. Subscribe, and you will
>get the bulletin each month.
>
>Thank you for understanding and co-operation,
>
>                                Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper
>                                Minsk Economic News             M.VOLODIN
>
>                                President of the International Association
>                                for Belarusian Studies               A.MALDZIS
>
>P.S. Should You have any suggestions, please contact:
>Internacional Association for Belarusian Studies.
>15, Revalucyynaya St., Minsk, 220050, Belarus.
>Tel./fax. (017) 220 9350, e-mail: mab at lingvo.minsk.by
>
>P.P.S. The Belarusian variant of "Contacts and Dialogues" starting with
>Nr 6 You can receive in the electronic form.
>