rhetoric and cmc in Russia

[Sapief]

Greetings.  I am compiling a list of bibliographic and electronic
resources on rhetoric  and computer-mediated-communication
in Russia.  What I have done so far can be accessed from my
home page at http://www.rpi.edu/~sapief/  I offer this resource
for anyone else interested in these topics.

I would be interested in contact with anyone else who is interested
in Russia and the internet and/or Russian rhetoric.  One question
I would like to ask: to what extent (if any) do the sophists influence
the theorists Yuri Lotman or Mikhail Epstein? Is there a
link (possibly through Bakhtin) to the sophists and/or other
figures in classical rhetoric?

Thank you.

Filipp Sapienza
Department of Language, Literature, and Communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute