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The first festival of the social Internet advertising festival "Driving woman - queen of roads!" has started.

On August 7, the first in Buryatia motor rally for disabled women started in Ulan-Ude from the Svoboda Place.

The Second Assembly of non-commercial organizations of the Central Europe, post-Soviet countries and Turkey "Civil society in the developing management: experience and prospects for the future" took place on June 14-16, 2002 in Belgrade.

Seminar for journalists in the frames of program on prevention of illegal women's export abroad took place in Krasnodar on July 21. Seminar was organized by the Foundation of independent broadcasting and Women's Crisis Center "Obereg".

International conference "ON-LINE Learning" - VID YAKASH-2002 will take place on December 15-17 2002 in Mubai (India).

This motor rally is organized by the club "Baikal Amazons" and is a stage of the preparation of the round-the-globe motor rally which is planned for the next future.

We understand that in case you watch news on TV you have more questions than answers. Therefore, I forward official letter – position of the Soros Foundation concerning the building in Oserkovskaya str., 8.

Regional social organization "Vostok-Zapad: Women's Innovations Projects" announces opening of the English version of the portal "Woman and Society" (http://www.owl.ru/english/). Annotations of all the news and articles, which are placed at the portal's Russian version, are translated into English.

In June Project IC IWF "Application of gender approach to municipal policy", financed by Canadian Fund for Russian Women Support has been concluded.

On July 2 seminar "Woman and Politics" took place in Barnaul. Altai School of Political Researches organized it in cooperation with the League of Women Voters of Altai.