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copy;1996 Friends and Partners
Natasha Bulashova, Greg Cole
Born on January 19, 1994,
Friends and Partners is one of the first Internet services developed
jointly by citizens of the United States and Russia. Resulting from a
chance meeting on the Internet (you can read our story here), it is but one of many
examples of how the Internet, itself rooted in the Cold War separating our
nations, can provide an effective means of bringing us together.
Friends and Partners now represents a community of people all over the world who
provide information and communications services to promote
better understanding, friendship and partnership between individuals and
organizations of the United States (and, more broadly, "the west") and
countries of the Former Soviet Union.
We wish to help others build upon the "Friends and Partners" framework
-- to create and link together information on our nation's histories, our
art, music, literature, and religion, our educational and scientific
resources, our geography and natural resources, our languages, and our
opportunities for communicating, travelling, and working together. Please
help us! Additional
information is available if you are interested in contributing. You
can read more about our server
here, and learn of a few awards and honors it
has received.
This project owes any success it has realized to many, many individuals and
organizations. While we cannot possibly thank everyone here, we do want to
thank our sponsors, the National Science Foundation,
Ford Foundation, Eurasia Foundation, US State Department, NATO, Sun Microsystems, the
International Science Foundation, Esper Systems, RELARN, and Stack, Inc.
We want to express special appreciation to our home institutions -- the Pushchino Institute of Biochemistry and
Physiology of Microorganisms and The
University of Tennessee -- who have done so much to sustain this effort.
Please sign our GuestBook
and let us know your comments and suggestions.
About the authors . . . We are Natasha Bulashova, of Pushchino Russia, and Greg Cole of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Our careers in information
science led to our chance meeting via the Internet and to our discovery
that despite cultural differences, a steep language barrier, and the
misunderstandings upon which we were raised, we can become good friends.
It is our greatest hope that this server will help others do the same.
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Natasha Bulashova, Greg Cole
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Updated: 2002-01-
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