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HEADNOTE News / Information HEADNOTE A conference report Trust is a blurred, and controversially discussed, topic of social science that has become particularly attractive for empirical work in economic sociology. For that reason a conference took place in St. Petersburg from 16th until 17th December 2002, organized by the Faculty ......

BlackRock Inc. sold Jefferson on the Park, a 240-unit multifamily property, to Fairfield Residential for $43.2 million.

During the short-lived coup in 1991, St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak almost single-handedly prevented Soviet troops from occupying the city. But with Russia in chaos and Boris Yeltsin in a fight for his political future, Sobchak has joined centrists in criticizing Gaidar's shock therapy--perhaps positioning himself for a national role....

HEADNOTE Social change brings about discursive change. Particularly, it causes shifts of meaning within the key concepts of social discourse. The concept of dengi (money) has undergone fundamental alteration in Russian language and culture since perestroika. This conceptual change will be discussed in the following article. My findings are based ......

The Southern California Chapter of the TCA (Tele-Communications Association) has been contracting various agencies within the Soviet Union and the USA to set up a professional exchange of telecomm professionals between these two countries. A trip is tentatively planned for August 16 to 30 of this year. On-site visitations with ......

Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com is preparing to swap sun for snow in an eastward expansion. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer maker today announced it will open a lab in St. Petersburg, Russia, to pursue advanced information management technologies. HP Labs Russia will be the third facility that the company has opened in ......

Russian journalists are embracing the Internet and incorporating it as a reporting tool, and despite relatively low Internet penetration throughout the Russian population, journalists seem to be signing on in great numbers. Indeed, the Internet is beginning to change the face of Russian journalism, says Dmitry Ruschin, Ph.D., head of ......