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Welcome back to everyone!!!
Now that most of us are returning to our regular routines, after hopefully enjoying the holidays, I just wanted to remind all the we are meeting at Michaelangelo's Coffee House this Wednesday between 5-7pm for our weekly conversation hour!.
Hope to see you all there,
Anastasia
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Сообщение отредактировал Boroda — Jan 17 2006, 11:21 PM

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Thanks to all for the recent inquiries and interest in Russian Table.

Our first meeting of this semester will be on Thursday, January 25th starting about 5:00 p.m. in the "Rathskeller" in Memorial Union. You'll find us easily -- we'll be speaking Russian and have a small Russian flag on the table!

Hope to see all of you there. Remember, we welcome everyone, regardless of level and abilities. We even welcome those who just want to sit there and hear Russian spoken without speaking themselves, so please come by.

Best wishes to all for a happy and successful semester and 2007.

Pasha
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Русский стол: неформальная тусовка при факультете славистики универа. Публика смешанная, многие рады попрактиковаться в русском или просто обменяться новостями.. Boroda

[quote name='Boroda' date='Jan 22 2007, 04:58 PM' post='1578']
info from Russian Table:

Thanks to all for the recent inquiries and interest in Russian Table.

Our first meeting of this semester will be on Thursday, January 25th starting about 5:00 p.m. in the "Rathskeller" in Memorial Union. You'll find us easily -- we'll be speaking Russian and have a small Russian flag on the table!

Hope to see all of you there. Remember, we welcome everyone, regardless of level and abilities. We even welcome those who just want to sit there and hear Russian spoken without speaking themselves, so please come by.

Best wishes to all for a happy and successful semester and 2007.

Pasha
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Русский стол: неформальная тусовка при факультете славистики универа. Публика смешанная, многие рады попрактиковаться в русском или просто обменяться новостями.. Boroda

I am sorry, I didn't quite understand that: where is it going to be again? The first message says one thing and the second says another thing for location..

Thanks

Russian table zhiv i zdorov, kak i ran'she po chetvergam Rathskeller 5 pm

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Сообщение отредактировал Boroda — Oct 26 2007, 10:52 AM

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Hello All!
Michelle Jordan and James Dietrich here. We are taking over for Stephanie this semester as organizers of Russian Table, thanks for all your work Stephanie! Now that the semester is starting and most people are back in town it is a great time for Russian Table to start back up as well. We will be holding weekly meetings at the same time and place as last semester to begin with, but this may be subject to change as the semester progresses. If there are changes we'll be sure to email you all. The meeting time and place is as follows:
Wednesdays, 5:30 pm, Der Rathskeller at the Memorial Union.
The first meeting will be this coming Wednesday January 30th.
Either James or I will be at every meeting with the little Russia Flag as always.
Email us with any questions, hope to see you next week!!

Michelle and James

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Dear all,

Please join us for a night of Russian folk music with folk ensemble Zolotoj Plyos. Details for the concert are below.

Best,
Drago

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Concert: Zolotoj Plyos
Location: 7:00 PM, Morphy Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St
Sponsors: CREECA, Associated Students of Madison, Wisconsin Experience Grant, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literature, and the UW-Madison Slavic Graduate Student Organization
FREE and open to general public

About the group:
Zolotoj Plyos, the colorful and popular Russian ensemble will present
a concert of folk songs and instrumental music on February 5 at 7pm in Morphy Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This trio consists of world-famous professional Russian folk musicians who graduated from the Higher Music School in Saratov, a city located on the banks of the Volga River in Russia. The group has traveled extensively throughout Russia collecting and preserving the tradition of Russian folk music. Formed in 1994, Zolotoj Plyos performs traditional Russian folk songs, accompanied by a large variety of authentic folk instruments, including the treshchetka, balalaika, garmoshka and lozhki. Their performances are lively and entertaining for listeners of all ages. The group has won numerous prizes in various folk music festivals in Russia, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Germany, and has even performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This evening concert is intended for students, faculty, and community members of all ages.

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Drago Momcilovic
CREECA Events Coordinator
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
210 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone:(608) 262-3379
Fax: (608) 890-0267
www.creeca.wisc.edu

Сообщение отредактировал Boroda — Feb 1 2008, 05:08 PM

Thursday, February 7, 2008
“Energy from the Caspian: A New Great Game for Russia, Central Asia, and the World”
David E. Knuti, Foreign Commercial Service Officer
Location: 4:00 PM, 206 Ingraham, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, Global Studies, and the Center for International Business Education and Research

About the lecture: The Caspian region is reemerging as major source of world energy, but its resources are difficult to produce and separated from markets by long distances and complex geopolitical obstacles. While small in comparison to the Middle East, Caspian production could provide the world with a crucial increment of resources to meet its relentlessly growing demand. If successfully developed and transported, this production could provide an additional 3.0 million barrels/day (bbl/da) of oil in the next 15 years, which could meet a major share of the world’s projected increased demand of 10 million bbl/da. If this promise is met, the emerging states of Central Asia could have a good chance for stability and a modicum of prosperity. This talk will discuss the challenges of the governments and international companies in developing difficult deposits and moving products thousands of miles to consumers. It will also explore the complex geopolitical issues of transpor
tation through the Black Sea-Turkish corridor, and alternative transit routes and customers to the south and east in Iran, India and China. Russia and the U.S. have special commercial, geopolitical, and energy-security interests in Caspian energy development, which are key factors in the total picture.

About the speaker:
David Knuti has been an observer of Russia, the former Soviet Union and international energy issues for over twenty five years in various professional capacities. He is especially knowledgeable on Russian energy issues and the development of the oil and gas production of the Caspian region. As a CIA analyst, he worked in the 1990s on the emergence of Caspian energy developments from a low priority backwater of Soviet industry to a key resource for U.S. energy security. He was a key analyst of the major production developments in Baku, Azerbaijan and north Caspian Kazakhstan zones as well as the epic diplomatic efforts to advance the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and Baku-Ceyhan oil pipelines from the region. Moving to the Commerce Department in 1996, he supported U.S. diplomatic efforts to positively influence Caspian and Russian energy development as part of U.S. negotiating teams traveling frequently to Turkey and the Caspian region to meet with heads of government and c
ompany executives. His final professional service was in the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service for three-year stints in Moscow and Budapest where he worked with foreign governments to facilitate energy policy reform and U.S. company investments. Since he retiring in 2005, Mr. Knuti has maintained his expertise on these issues and given lectures on the UW campus and in the community. He holds a Master’s degree in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from the University of Kansas and is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute Russian course.

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Please also join us for next week's lecture:

Thursday, February 14, 2008
“Russian Military Photography & Central Asian Album-Mania in the 19th-century”
Heather S. Sonntag, Doctoral Candidate, Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
Location: 4:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

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Drago Momcilovic
CREECA Events Coordinator
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
210 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone:(608) 262-3379
Fax: (608) 890-0267

Hello all!
Are you itching for some Russian conversation? Or looking for some good company on a Wednesday afternoon? Come out to the Memorial Union this Wednesday at 6:00pm for the first Russian Table meeting of the summer! We will meet on the terrace if the weather is nice and in the Rathskeller if it rains as it might. I hope to see you there!!
Do' skorovo!!

Michelle
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Hi!
I will have a sign on the table with the Russian Flag on it!!
Thanks!
Michelle

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Hello everyone!

My name is Katie Weigel, and I am a first-year graduate student in the Slavic Department here at UW. I will be heading up the Russian Table this semester along with fellow new grads, Alix Evans and Jesse Stavis.

Russian Table:
Wednesdays, 5:00 pm, Der Rathskeller at the Memorial Union.
The first meeting will be this coming Wednesday, October 1st.
Either Alix, Jesse, or myself will be there with a Russian flag.
Email us with any questions, hope to see you next week!!

If you would like to be removed from this list, please reply and type "remove" in the subject line.

Thanks,

Katie