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Dear conferees, The INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON PRIVATIZATION AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN RUSSIA opens now. Foundation for Agrarian Development Research (FADR), a Russian NGO, was one of the pioneers of the use of electronic communications in Russia. The brief information about FADR you can find in our WWW homepage: http://www.fadr.msu.ru, which is installed in our own WWW-server. We work closely with the Rodale Institute (PA, USA) and INFORUM. Our feeling this day is the mixture of satisfaction and worry. We are glad that the conference has more than 100 subscribers now from different regions in Russia. Conference will provide an inter- disciplinary and multi-sector forum for free exchange of ideas and opinions, concerning agrarian reforms. Our worries have both technical and conceptual reasons. It is difficult to organize immediate translation from Russian into English. I kindly ask you to excuse the quality, including this message. More important is the choice of the framework. Trying to cover too much led to failure to deal with everything on the agenda. From the other side we want to discuss the privatization just as a complex problem in the context of sustainable agricultural and rural development (and even now we have Room 4 on the big SARD Conference). Privatization and particularly privatization in the agrarian sector is now is a on of the ñhot pointsò of the country public life. This factor will be actual is during presidential election June. But the debates focuses mostly on land ownership and decollectivisation (ñnarrowò understanding of privatization), many other aspects of this process attract less attention. The agriculture can not be insulated apart from macro-economical problems. Economic assumptions are the roots of different social conflicts. Central planning economy in the USSR provided better access to education and health case, considerable degree of income security of employment guarantee and social assistance in rural areas. President of the USA (and professor!) T.W.Wilson said that ñno one can workshop God or love his neighbor on an empty stomachò. Because Democracy in Russia remains fragile itðs very important to restore at least the conference in future. After his visit to former Soviet republics in 1954 Patrick Madden, President of the World sustainable agriculture association, purposes that ñ perhaps the seeds of the next Bolshevik Revolution have been sownò. My forecast is more optimistic if economic policy will be more social-oriented. Rural unemployment (usually hidden) become for the first time a serious problem in some regions. It would be more severe due to loss of jobs during the reforming process. Informal (shadow) economy gives according to official estimations about 20 % of the Russian GNR (some expert believe that more). Thatðs peoples spontaneous response to the states incapacity to satisfy the basic needs. Informal economy is always substrate for the corruption. Such situation is typical for many development countries. Shock liberalization of the agricultural trade increases in 1995 the volume of the food import up to 13.5 billion $. One of the most pressing issues is how to stimulate adoption of farming systems to the market economy and principles of sustainable agriculture. The chain is not stronger than its weakest link. In Russian agriculture itðs absence of effective extension service, and practice of other countries in this field will be very useful for us. According to the tentative agenda during the first week we shall discuss with you the conference framework. All comments and suggestions will be welcomed. The topic for the March 11-31 is Reform and Privatization, their socioeconomic and biographical recourses (land, labor, capital etc.). April 1-28: Reform and Privatization, extension, processing and so on. May 3-29: Integrated Reform and Privatization strategies and last week (May 20-26) Summary and final comments. Besides, we plan to store all the conference material in our computer and make it accessible via HyperNews system for the Internet users. We will give you additional information later. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dear conference participants, We plan to translate the articles from the Russian part of our conference. Today we have sent there the following articles: S.A.Nikolsky ñAgrarian Reformò 1991-1995 and the problems of modernization of Russian Village I.E.Koznova Social memory of the peasants as the factor of agrarian reorganizations V.P.Poznyakov Agrarian reform and the contradictions of the peasants economical thinking G.Rodionova Private property on the land and motivation of activity in agriculture We will be very glad if anybody will help us with translation. In the English part of the conference we are sending the article: Marina Garadzha Farm Management Survey: Preliminary Results If you want to present your paper in English or Russian, please, contact me (<durmanov@dmitri.msk.ru> or <con- mgt@fadr.msu.ru>) We would like to congratulate all the women with the fine spring holiday of 8th of March. Yours, Dmitri Durmanov