International conference on distant learning

Newspapers "Izvestiya" published on 27 July the article "Women are coming", dedicated to the women's movement in Russia. Consortium's site presents this article with comments of the coordinator E.N. Ershova.

In the new season, Svetlana Sorokina will present her new project "Nothing personal" on TVS.

A new world record in the synchronous breast-feeding was held in Berkley, State of California - more than thousand mothers took part in the event.

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".

Site contents information about Consortium itself: its activities, history, projects, researches, membership organizations, plans for the next future etc: http://www.wcons.org.ru/ru/main.php

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