Mass Media Overview

http://www.rarolc.net/events/detail.php?cid=124

Date: Feb 09 - Feb 11, 2005

Location: Vologda

Partnership Sponsor: New Hampshire - Vologda Oblast

There were presentations by members of the Judicial Council. Interestingly enough, the topics presented dealing with problems in the judicial system could easily have been presentations by New Hampshire judges. The problems ranged from too few judges to insufficient funding for buildings to transparency and openness with the press. Judge Lewis and Judge Fitzgerald had an interesting personal conversation with the Chief Judge of the Arbitrage Court regarding the court and relations with the press.

http://www.nhbar.org/ by Beverly Rorick

The Vologda/New Hampshire Rule of Law Partnership recently held a mediation seminar at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord as part of its exchange program. Three judges from Vologda attended the sessions, which covered the general principles of mediation, the role of the mediator, the structure of a mediation, the gathering of information and how to break an impasse, among other topics. The judges were then given real cases to consider.

http://www.rarolc.net/events/detail.php?cid=126

Date: Feb 28 - Mar 04, 2005

Location: Concord, New Hampshire

Partnership Sponsor: New Hampshire ~ Vologda Oblast

www.courts.state.nh.us/press/ September 11, 2002/ by Laura Kiernan

CONCORD--Eight leading Russian judges from the Vologda region are spending this week in Concord and Manchester studying the U.S. federal and state court systems with their New Hampshire counterparts. The Russian jurists are part of a high-level rule of law exchange sponsored by the Open World Program, a program funded by the Library of Congress. The visit comes following Russia's recent adoption of major judicial reforms proposed by President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow Times/ July 3, 1997/ By William C. Brumfield

In the popular imagination, most of Russia is north, cold and imponderable. Yet within this vast territory, there is a region to the northeast of Moscow, between Yaroslavl and Arkhangelsk, that has a cultural coherence created by those who settled in its forests and moved along its rivers and lakes during the middle ages.

UNH News Bureau/ April 17, 2000/ by Tracy Manforte

DURHAM, N.H. -- Russian and American cultures meet head on in a three-year university partnership designed by Cathy Frierson, University of New Hampshire associate professor of history. The partnership includes UNH, Franklin Pierce Law Center and Vologda State University.

Bar Journal - International Issue/ Volume 44, Number 2/ By Hon. Linda S. Dalianis

The New Hampshire judiciary first became involved with the Vologda courts in 1998, but it was not until May 2001 that I was able to travel to Vologda with a small group. There were four of us: two men, two women. Two of us were veterans of Vologda; two of us had never been there before.

Journal Opinion / March 28, 2001 / by Hank Buermeyer

Photo by Hank Buermeyer. Left to right: Elina Bolshova, Timur Akhmedov, Galina Shchegoleva, Olga Solodiankina, Ludmila Nakleishikova, Olga Tropina, Valentina Sokolova, Helen Hrabrova, Natalia Kornilova.

CORINTH/TOPSHAM—As part of a tour of the United States, nine educators from the Vologda area of Russia paid a visit to the Waits River Valley School (WRVS) on March 19. The visitors spent the day sitting in at various classrooms and watching how the students and teachers interacted with each other.

New York Times / May 27, 2000 / by Michael Wines

VOLOGDA, Russia, May 24 -- As any gourmand around here will tell you, there are but two types of butter in Russia. There is ordinary, bland butter, bought by ordinary, bland people and consumed on ordinary, bland occasions. And there is Vologda butter.

Vologodskoye maslo: the name fairly trips off the tongue -- the Russian tongue, anyway. This is butter so cultured that it was originally called Parisian butter (about which more later), even though it is made in the Vologda Region, a vaguely Massachusetts-shaped, almost New York-sized area about 250 miles northeast of Moscow.

Moscow News / Historical Chat / 3.12.2003

Vladimir Gilyarovsky, journalist, poet, and writer, was one of the most colorful figures in Russian history. He was born on December 8, one hundred and fifty years ago, and lived a long and intense life, leaving behind numerous books, as well as stories and articles scattered through the Russian press of his time.