Caltech Russian Club news

Wed, 22 Feb 2006. Marina V. Concert

Beckman Institute Auditorium, 6:30pm, free admission

Russian-born recording artist, singer, pianist and songwriter Marina V will perform on Wednesday night at Beckman Institute Auditorium.

Born in Russia to a communist nuclear physicist father and a child psyhologist mother, Marina came to America alone at 15 years old, winning an academic scholarship to attend high school. At 17, she permanently moved to the USA and started performing while attending college in Illinois. Since then, Marina moved to L.A., signed with a world-famous manager David Krebs (who's managed Aerosmith, Don McLean, AC/DC, the Scoprions and Trans-Siberian Orchestra) and had her songs produced by legendary producer, Jack Douglas (John Lennon, George Harrison, Aerosmith, etc).

Influenced by the Beatles and Tchaikovsky, Marina's music style has been described as an unusual mix of Tori Amos, Jewel & Paul McCartney, but "with her unique phrasing, breathless, smoky-sweet and compelling vocals, she's got a sound all her own" (Artists Studio Magazine). For more info, please visit http://www.MarinaV.com

"hauntingly beautiful" ~ L.A. Times

"inspirational lyrics & a soaring voice" ~ Music Connection

Tue, 29 Nov 2005. Caltech Russian Club presents: "Operation Y"

Beckman Institute Auditorium, 8.00 pm. Caltech Map building 74, rm 134. IMDB entry Additional information in the flyer [pdf]. Spread the word, print it out and post it around.

From: isp@caltech.edu

On TUESDAY, October 18, at 8PM in the Beckman Institute Auditorium 
(room 134, campus building #74), IFilm is pleased to present:

Mirror (Soviet Union, 1975)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Languages: Russian
Run time: 108 minutes

Fri, 14 Oct 2005. Welcome potluck cookout

We will be having a potluck cookout to welcome the new students to campus starting at 6 pm, on the porch of the Central Catalina recroom. RSVP.

Confirmed

Attendee	Contributes
Andrei Rodionov
Vladlen Timciuk	Red wine
Pikov Victor and Olga	Beer
Alexei Solomatin	Soda, setup help
Ivan Grudinin	Salads
Anton Gross	Meat
Mikhail Kislitsyn
Rassul Karabalin	Shashlyk
Alexei Dvoretskii	Shashlyk
Alexander Alekseenko	Veggies

Possible

Attendee	Contributes
Lilya Kharevych	Ideas!
Ulyana Diudina and Alexei Kopylov	Skewers

Mon, 10 Oct 2005. GSC funding

Message from President:

From: Rassul Karabalin
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 

We are very glad to announce that we have received GSC funding for the amount of $800. 
This is the largest single amount of funding the Russian Club ever got. 
Congratulations to everyone. The money are allocated for 2 big parties. 
So be prepared and don't miss the announcements.

And a reaction from a former President:

From: Tim Piatenko 
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 

WOW!!!  :)  I'm impressed!

- former president Timoha  :P

Sat, 23 Sep 2005. Club Fair

Caltech Russian Club will field a table at the Caltech Club Fair. Stop by between 12.00 noon and 4.00 pm. This is your chance to meet us, get on the mailing list, and learn more about the club and our activities. You can also pay your dues if you want to enjoy the benefit of full membership.

Table shift sign-up:

• 12pm-1pm: Rassul, Natasha
• 1pm-2pm: Ivan
• 2pm-3pm: Alexei
• 3pm-4pm:

Mon, 22 Aug 2005. 2005-2006 Dues

Club dues for the 2005-2006 fiscal year are $5.00. By paying your dues you:

• Show support for the club
• Become eligible for the Board of Directors
• Get membership privileges such as unrestricted postings to the mailing lists
• Improve our chances to receive funding from Caltech organizations

You can pay the dues by PayPal. Please pay $5.50 to cover PayPal processing fees.

or send a check payable to Caltech Russian Club to the Club Treasurer, Mikhail Kislitsyn, m/c 309-81, 1200 E. California Blvd., Caltech, 91125.

Tue, Aug 02, 2005. Dentistry in Pasadena, a Russian perspective

Check out a lists of Pasadena Area dentists compiled by Ivan Grudinin.

Thu, Jul 21, 2005. BoD #8

Lucky Baldwin's pub in Old Town Pasadena, 6pm - 8pm.

This is a meeting to close out what has been a very successful year for the club. Try to make it if you would like to get involved or find out more about our plans for the next year. There will be a carpool. Meet at 6 pm on the southeast corner of the Del Mar/Catalina Ave intersection.

As part of International Open Air Cinema 2005 Caltech Russian Club and IFilm present: "Moskva slezam ne verit (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears)". Soviet Union (1979) by Vladimir Menshov. Comedy/Drama/Romance. Russian with English subtitles, 140 min. Sherman Fairchild Library Amphitheatre, (behind SFL between Spalding Lab and Thomas) 8.30 pm. Caltech Map IMDB entry Russian Club DVDs

Fri, June 10, 2005. End-of-the-Year PARTY!

Caltech Russian Club and the Caltech Hellenic Society are joining forces again this year to bring you a long-awaited party to close out the year, Friday June 10 at 9 pm, North Catalina Recroom. As usual there will be drinks and nice music. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy. The party is co-sponsored by Caltech Hellenic Society, Caltech Russian Club, GSC, Graduate Office, Housing and Campus Life. You have to be 21+ to get alcohol. The alcohol will be served by a bartender. Read and abide by Caltech alcohol policy.

Wed, 25 May 2005. UEFA Champions League Final

Come watch the AC Milan - Liverpool final.

11.30 am, North Catalina Recroom. Pizza and drinks are provided. Sponsored by the GSC. Co-organized with Caltech Soccer Club.

Wed, 18 May 2005. CSKA Champion

We are watching CSKA Moscow make history as they beat Sporting Lisboa to become the winners of the 2005 UEFA Cup. Flyer.

11.30 am, North Catalina Recroom. Pizza and drinks are provided. Sponsored by the GSC. Co-organized with Caltech Soccer Club.

Mon, 09 May 2005. Victory Day

We would like to congratulate everyone with a 60 year Victory Day anniversary we are having today.

As a present we provide you with a classic Victory Day war time song "Den pobedy" (Victory Day).

© All works published in the Soviet Union before May 27, 1973 were not protected by International Copyright Conventions and are thus in the public domain in many countries.

Thu, 28 Apr 2005. SIF disbursement.

We have secured $250 in funding from the Caltech Students Investment Fund to buy subtitled Russian DVDs. The movies will be shown at the Club events and eventually donated to the ASCIT/GSC DVD library. [Disbursement notification (pdf)].

Tue 19 Apr 2005. Food Fair 2005 Summary.

Once again we can be justly proud of our Food Fair participation. Our table enjoyed huge popularity. It was definitely among the most plentiful and offered lots of variety.

This year 650 tickets were sold, the highest number ever. However, we were well prepared and held strong all the way till the start of the culture show.

Here are the credits for the Food Fair 2005 Dream Team who made this possible:

• Raisa Solomatina - pies
• Natalia Zybina - pies
• Ulyana Diudina, Alexei Kopylov, Mikhail Kislitsyn, Alexei Solomatin, and Lisa Welp - 262(!) pelmeni
• Ivan Grudinin - fried cheesecakes
• Alexei Dvoretskii - borscht, wintercoat herring, shopping
• Rassul Karabalin - Olivier salad, shopping
• Tony Gross and Tatiana Myagkova helped at the table
• Yernur Rysmagambetov performed at the culture show again this year

Hopefully, nobody got left out. Thanks to all friends who stopped by to compliment our cooking skills.

Here are some pictures of the Dream Team in action

• Alexei
• Rassul
• Mikhail
• Team Pelmeni
• Mikhail, Alexei, Rassul, Ulyana, Alexei
• Tony, Raisa
• Veronica, Natasha, Rassul

If you cooked for the Food Fair please submit your reimbursement requests to Mikhail, MC 309-81. Make sure to include all receipts that you have, it's very important because we need them to get the reimbursement. If you don't have receipts just give us an estimate of how much you spent.

April 10-15 2005, Caltech International Week

There will be various events during the week culminating in the Food Fair and Student Culture Show on Friday, which starts at 4.30 pm in the Avery Courtyard.

Fri, 15 Apr 2005. Food Fair 2005

The Food Fair has always been our most important event of the year. It's our chance to show our involvement in the social life at Caltech, proudly represent our culture, show off our culinary talents and cement our relationship with the International Student Programs who have over time supported our club on many occasions.

And of course to continue this important tradition (2004, 2003) we need your participation. Cooking a traditional meal your family enjoys is the best way to help out, but we also need volunteers to help serve food to the hungry Techers. If you need inspiration, there are some recipes that we have collected.

Mon, 11 Apr 2005. Movie night: "Brat (Brother)"

As part of Caltech International Week Caltech Russian Club presents "Brat (Brother)". Russia (1997) by Alexei Balabanov. Crime/Drama. Russian with English subtitles, 160 min. Beckman Institute Auditorium, 9.15 pm. Caltech Map IMDB entry

Fri, 11 Mar 2005. Women's Day Party.

Caltech Russian Club is hosting a Women's Day Party this Friday, March 11, 2005. Come celebrate this special holiday with us. The party will be in the usual format of outdoor chatting and indoor dancing. The event is taking place at 9.00 pm in North Catalina Recroom. We are providing drinks and refreshments. The party is co-sponsored by GSC, Caltech Alumni Association, Graduate Office, Caltech Housing and Campus Life. Everyone is welcome. You have to be 21+ to get alcohol. The alcohol will be served by a bartender. Read and abide by Caltech alcohol policy.

Flyer. (PDF 400k)

Feb 28, 2005. Russian Club BoD #6

Wed, 16 Feb 2005. Movie night: "The Barber of Siberia"

"He's Russian. That explains a lot." Caltech Russian Club presents "The Barber of Siberia". Russia/France/Italy/Check Republic (1998) by Nikita Mikhalkov. Drama. Russian, English with English subtitles, 160 min. Beckman Institute Auditorium, 8 pm. Caltech Map Event Flier (48kB, pdf). IMDB entry

Fri, 21 Jan 2004. Tatiana's Day Party

Poster by Lily Kharevych.
Budget

Caltech Russian Club is hosting its annual "Tatiana's Day" Party. Come decompress with us and celbrate the day of the Russian students' patron saint. The party will be in the usual format of chilling on the porch and music/dancing inside.

9 pm - 1 am. North Catalina recroom. Open to all Caltech community members. Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Council, Campus Life, Graduate Housing, Caltech Alumni Association, and the Graduate Office.

All alcohol will be served by a bartender. Please read and abide by Caltech Alcohol Policy.

Pictures from the party

Jan 17, 2005. Russian Club BoD #5

Fri, 17 Dec 2004. Movie Night: "Cold Summer of 1953" (Kholodnoe leto 53-go).

We'll be having a screening of "Cold Summer of 1953", 8 pm at Beckman Institute Auditorium. Some refreshements will be provided. Mosfilm 1988, directed by Alexander Proshkin and starring Anatoly Papanov and Valery Priemykhov. Russian with English subtitles. Running time 96 min. This movie was purchased with funds from Caltech Student Investment Fund. Synopsis: Shortly after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Lavrenty Beria, the omnipotent NKVD Minister, granted a broad amnesty. Left at large were hardened criminals previously convicted of grave offences, wreaking havoc in search of food and transportation. Some bandits come across a small village where two amnestied political prisoners are waiting for the arrival of a boat; soon this pair must defend the villagers from the se criminals.

Wed, 15 Dec 2004. Meet the alumni dinner #3: Ulyana Dyudina.

Athenaeum Rathskeller. 6 pm.

Our speaker is Ulyana Dyudina. Ulyana joined Caltech as a graduate student in Planetary Science in 1996 coming from Physics department of Moscow State University. She studied clouds on giant planets (Jupiter and Saturn) for her thesis at Caltech, which she defended in 2002.

She took two one-year postdoc appointments after that: one in NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University campus on Manhattan; and the other in Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Starting this September she works as a staff scientist at Caltech studying Saturn with recently arrived Saturn orbiting spacecraft Cassini.

Having a son born in 1995 she became an expert in family surviving in the harsh environment of the foreighn countries.

Everybody is welcome to attend. We will sponsor the dinner for the first 5 club members. RSVP to sovok@its.caltech.edu. You can become a club member by paying your annual dues. This event is sponsored by the Caltech Alumni Association.

Wed, 17 Nov 2004. Meet the alumni dinner #2: Konstantin Matveev.

Athenaeum Rathskeller. 6 pm.

The speaker is Konstantin Matveev. Konstantin came to Caltech as a graduate student in 1998, earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 and continued on as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary research work was in thermoacoustics (combustion instability and new types of heat engines). During his student years Konstantin also served as a consultant on several ship-related projects, including a hydrofoil-submarine in Hollywood blockbuster "XXX".

Recently Konstantin has started as a Senior Hydrodynamicist at Art Anderson Associates, a Seattle-based company developing advanced marine vehicles for commercial applications and the Navy. For more information about the speaker visit Konstantin's website at www.hydrofoils.org.

Everybody is welcome to attend. We will sponsor the dinner for the first 5 club members. RSVP to sovok@its.caltech.edu. You can become a club member by paying your annual dues. This event is sponsored by the Caltech Alumni Association.

Attended by: Konstantin Matveev, Ivan Grudinin, Rassul Karabalin, Dmitry Kossakovsky, Konstantin Taganov, Alexey Pankine, Alexei Dvoretskii.

Mon, 15 Nov 2004. Caltech Alumni Association funding application

• .doc
• .txt

Wed, 10 Nov 2004. Meet the alumni dinner #1: Alexey Pankine.

We are starting a "Meet the alumni" series of dinners. The goal of this program is to provide networking opportunities for the current club members and the alumni. This will give the alumni a chance to maintain a closer connection to Caltech while helping current students get a better picture of career opportunities outside Caltech.

Our first dinner speaker is Alexey Pankine. Alexey came to Caltech as a graduate student in 1994 and worked with Professor Ingersoll on modeling dust storms on Mars. After receiving his PhD in 2000 he has been working for Global Aerospace Corporation, an engineering R&D company based in Southern California.

The dinner will be at the Athenaeum Rathskeller, 10 Nov 2004, 6 pm. Everybody is welcome to attend. We will sponsor the dinner for the first 5 club members. RSVP to sovok@its.caltech.edu. You can become a club member by paying your annual dues.

This event is sponsored by the Caltech Alumni Association.

Attended by: Alexey Pankine, Uliana Dyudina, Alexei Dvoretskii, and Rassul Karabalin.

Wed, 13 Oct 2004. Movie night: "East/West"

Francophile and Russian Clubs at Caltech present "East/West". France/Russia/Spain/Bulgaria (1999) by Regis Warnier. Drama. Russian, French with English subtitles, 120 min.

Beckman Institute Auditorium, 8 pm.

• Caltech Map
• Event Flier (47kB, pdf).

Sep 29, 2004. Russian Club BoD #4

Sep 25, 2004.

Caltech Russian Club will field a table at Caltech Club Fair. This is your chance to meet us, get on t he mailing list and learn more about the club.

Sep 17, 2004. Charitable event in support of Beslan victims

On the first day of the school year, September 1, 2004, terrorists took hostage over one thousand schoolchildren and their parents in a school building in the North Osetian town of Beslan in Russia. The bloody aftermath left over 300 dead and many more wounded, mostly children.

Caltech Russian Club is collecting donations to help the surviving victims of this horrible tragedy. You can donate to the club representatives or electronically. Please show your support and stop by our table outside Red Door Cafe adjacent to the Caltech Bookstore on Friday, Sep 17th, 11 am - 7 pm.

Event poster (created by Liliya Kharevych)

You can help us by printing out and posting the event poster in your buildings, or sending it to your friends.

• PDF

Donations

We have collected $1793 from 66 donors. Here's a complete list of donations. Please let us know if we accidentally misspelled your name.

At our Sep 29th Board of Directors meeting we decided to send all the money to the International Foundation for Terror Act Victims - a charity that will be distributing money directly to the Beslan victims. The main factor in our decision was the credibility IFTAV has established by carrying out a similar program for the vitctims following a hostage taking in a Moscow theater on October 23, 2002.

The check to IFTAV was sent out on October 12, 2004.

Acknowledgements

First of all we would like to acknowledge all the donors for their donations and support of the victims of the Beslan tragedy. We are touched and overwhelmed by the response of the community. On behalf of all the members of the Caltech Russian Club we extend to you our most heartfelt thank you.

This event would not have been possible without the involvement of many people. The volunteers at the table were Ivan Grudinin, Victor Pikov, Veronica Kondrashov, Sergei Zybin, Olga Shapovalova, Fyodor Kossakovski, Irina Ivanova, Julia Ivanova, Alexei Dvoretskii, Rassul Karabalin, Konstantin Taganov.

Liliya Kharevich designed the poster. The ribbons were made by Ulyana Diudina, Liliya Kharevich, Rogier Braakman and Alexei Dvoretskii. Special thanks to Jim Endrizzi and Athena Trentin at ISP. ISP generously endorsed the event and provided the table and the whiteboard. GSC newsletter editor John Bender helped put the event announcement into the newsletter. Emily Anderson helped put the event announcement in the Caltech Calendar. Jim Endrizzi, Dmitry Kossakovski and Amir Sadjadpour offered good organizational advice.

Aug 23, 2004. Russian Club BoD #3 (2004-2005 Annual Meeting)

July 27, 2004

Caltech Russian Club is hosting a showing of Stalker as part of International Open Air Cinema 2004

Jul 12, 2004. Russian Club BoD #2

June 12 - July 04. Euro 2004

We are watching Euro 2004 in Fleming House entertainment room. For those of you who don't know, Fleming is the house by the cannon on the south side of the Olive walk. To get to the ER, enter Fleming house near the cannon. There is a long corridor just to the right of the lounge and the pop machine. The second door on your right should say rooms 3-7, 8-11 (or something like that). Enter this hallway, the ER is the first door on your left. If you can't find it, just ask around and someone will point you in the right direction.

The early game is shown at 9 a.m. and the late game is at 11.45 a.m. Note that we are collecting $1 a game per person, so that we can cover some of the cost of buying the Euro 2004 package. The entire package was around $180 and we have so far collected $52. As I mentioned before, if there is a deficit after Euro 2004 is over, it will be covered by Fleming, Soccer club, and Russian club money.

If you do not want to pay for watching the games you have the option of watching some of the games on the Spanish language Fox Sports cable channel in the Central Catalina Recroom.

June 11, 2004. End-of-the-Year PARTY!

It's time for another Russian party at Caltech, this time co-organized by the Hellenic Society!

So come and celebrate the end of another academic year with us.

What's going to be there?

Cocktails and beer

* All alcohol served by an official bartender - anything you bring with you will have to be surrendered to him at the door

Downtempo, lounge, trip-hop beats,

Dancing, chilling and much more.

* We have a professional DJ coming. He'll bring his own mix, so no real-time requests an no complaints about the type or quality of music will be accepted :)

Where: North Catalinas Recreation Room

When: Friday June 11 at 9:30pm

*Co-sponsored by the GSC, Campus Life, Graduate Housing and the Alumni Association.

Hope to see you there! Flyer

May 13, 2004. Russian Club BoD #1

Food Fair 2004 Summary

As in past years our Food Fair participation was a huge success. Our table was definitely among the most popular as Techers stormed it to get a taste of Russian food. Thanks a lot first of all to those who made it possible by volunteering to cook:

• Valya and Sergiy Vasilkevich for their bliny
• Tim and Rimma Piatenko for their prianiki
• Alexei Kopylov for his syrniki
• Ed Chen for the honeycake and kisel
• Veronica Kondrashov for her cheese spread
• Igor Kagan and Bella Lurie for their salad
• Mikhail Kislitsin and Alexei Dvoretskii for their borscht and plov
• Ivan Grudinin and Rassul Karabalin for their Olivier and for shopping

We'd like to thank those who helped out serving food at the table

• Lilia Kharevich
• Vika Rozenbaoum
• Sasha
• Jenia Khorosheva

We'd like to thank Yernur Rysmagambetov for signing "Eto vse" at the culture show, and finally all friends who stopped by to compliment our cooking skills. Hopefully, nobody got left out. Check out pictures of those who made a Russian table possible. Finally, if you cooked for the Food Fair please submit your reimbursement requests. Make sure to include all receipts that you have.

April 12-16, International Week

International week is coming up. We have traditionally participated in the Food Fair (Food Fair 2003). It will take place on Friday April 16. We REALLY need as many people's culinary talents as possible to field a Russian Club table that we can be proud of. ISP is also looking to put up a Culture Show and they are looking for student performances.

02 Apr 2004. SIF funding application

We have applied for SIF funding. View application.

14 Mar 2004. "Reward and Punishment Lecture"

Olga Shapovalova gave a lecture, "Reward and Punishment". 8 people attended, three were Caltech alumni family members. The lecture was desined for parents of all ages children. and compared two techniques, reward and punishment, regarding how each of them works with problem behavior. An extensive Q&A section followed the lecture. Olga is planning to follow up with a lecture on "How to teach a new behavior".

23 Jan 2004. Party and diskoteka

The Russian Club is hosting a Tatiana's Day party on Friday, 23 Jan 2004. Come decompress with us and celebrate the day of the Russian students' patron saint. The party will be in the usual format of outdoor chatting and indoor dancing. (flier)

Time/Location: 8 p.m. 23 Jan 2004. Central Catalina recroom.
Piece of history: Jan 25 1755, Empress Elizabeth founded the Moscow University

All members of the Caltech Graduate student community are welcome to attend. Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Council, Campus Life, and Graduate Housing.

We will be providing some refreshments, food and a minimum amount of alcohol to get things started, but we also encourage you to bring your own treats and share with others. This event is NOT open to anyone under 21 years of age.

22 Jan 2004

A funding proposal has been submitted to Caltech Alumni Association.

23 Dec 2003. Announcing Russian Playgroup

We are pleased to announce that Caltech Russian Club is now sponsoring a Russian playgroup for young children. For more information, please visit this website.

07 Nov 2003. Party and diskoteka

Pictures from the party

We are resuming our hallmark parties in the Catalinas. Show up in force on Friday, November 7th at 9.00 pm at the central Catalina recroom. This party will follow our traditional time-proven format of drinks and dancing.

DJs Vitia and Ivan will be playing your favorite songs as well as some mixes from Propaganda - the hottest Moscow dance club. You can also email them with specific requests [pikov at hotmail, grudinin at caltech].

It's potluck for food and alcohol, i.e. bring your own and share with others.We will be providing some refreshments, food and a minimum amount of alcohol to get things started. This party is not open to anybody under legal drinking age.

Pictures from the party

17 Oct 2003. BBQ and Movie Night

To celebrate the beginning of the school year and welcome new students
we are organizing a BBQ 7pm - 10pm in the Central Catalina Recroom on Friday, Oct 17.
Please RSVP to sovok@its.caltech.edu so that we know how many people to expect.
As usual, help will be very much appreciated. Please volunteer.

We will also be showing 'Bratva i Koltso' - the Goblin Version.
Dmitry Puchkov's unorthodox translation of the movie "Fellowship of the Ring".

As we would like to keep this event open to undergraduates and do not 
want to hire a professional bartender, only non-alcoholic beverages will be
served at this event. 

All members of the Caltech graduate student community are welcome to attend.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Council, Campus Life and Graduate Housing.

Undergraduates, postdocs and other members of the Caltech community are welcome to attend.

flier (pdf)

27 Sep 2003. Club Fair

Caltech Russian Club participates in the 2003 Club Fair. We took this opportunity to advertise the club to the undergrads, grads and postdocs who have just come to Caltech and those who have been around but have still never heard of us. We met some cool people who stopped at our table to chat. [It's been a few days and we can't quite match up the names with the pictures. Help will be appreciated...]

Pictures:

• Tim, Rimma and Lena
• Lilia and Olga
• Andrei and Olga
• Tim, Rimma, Sasha and Leha
• Ivan and Rasul
• Rasul, Olga and Sasha
• ? and Zhenia
• ? and Sasha
• Zhenia
• ?
• Igor and Bella

Wed, 17 Sep 2003, ISP Orientation BBQ

Wednesday, September 17 ISP Orientation Program - Cookout & Pool Party 5:30 - 8:00 PM North Field We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday and remember to go out of your way this week to make the incoming class or international students welcome!

12 Sep, 2003 Movie night

Tomorrow, Friday 7 pm, Central Catalina. Movie: Tentatively "Kukushka" - pozhaluj samaia gromkaia premiera proshlogo goda. Esli ne poluchitsia to chefs choice from my home collection :)

05 Sep 2003, movie nights resume

From: Rustem Sh 
To: rusclub@caltech.edu

Tomorrow, Sept. 05, Friday:

A movie by Vlerij Todorovski - "Strana gluhih" - will be shown to all who 
likes to see an exquisite piece of cinematography made by a young and very 
talanted director.

Location: North Catalina Rec. room, 7 pm.

28 Aug 2003

NEW: Club Funding Proposal for 2003-2004 -> HERE

13 Aug 2003, New mailing list

In order to improve the efficiency of our mailing list we will 
be migrating from a haphazard flat file of addresses (many of which 
are obsolete) to ITS provided mailman software.

As a courtesy to the active dues paying members of the club 
(http://www.its.caltech.edu/~sovok/members.html) they will 
be subscribed to the new mailing list automatically. They will
also have the privileges to post to the list without moderator approval.
The same applies to former club executives who have contributed a lot
to the club in the past. (http://www.its.caltech.edu/~sovok/history.html)

To become an active member of the club by paying the annuals dues of $5
go to http://www.its.caltech.edu/~sovok.

If you are not an active member of the club you can still subscribe to the 
list. You postings, however, will be moderated.
To subscribe to the list go to https://utils.its.caltech.edu/mailman/listinfo/rusclub
or follow the maillist link on the club webpage.
The old mailing list will be phased out by the end of August.

These initial list policies may change in the future. Post to the list 
by sending email to rusclub@caltech.edu
or contact the club (sovok@its.caltech.edu).

ExComm.

25 Jul 2003, Fund raising

Hello fellow Russian speaking folks,

It's that time of the year when the club needs to make certain 
decisions about it's future. We are nearing the Caltech Club funding 
application deadline, and we've decided to reorganize.

First of all, to function as a real Club, we need some funds. There 
are two ways of getting them - membership dues and Caltech funding. 
Most clubs do collect modest yearly dues from their members, and in 
an attempt to make our own club more official, we'll be adopting that 
practise. Thus, we'll be collecting $5/year dues from each person 
who's willing to commit as an active member of the club. This will 
hopefully give the club a much needed jump start.

Secondly, we'll be applying for Caltech funding this year. To do 
this, we'll need a head count. Therefore, if you are willing to be a 
member of this club (i.e. pay the above mentioned dues, which will 
result in certain benefits of course :) ), please email us (see 
"Contacs" link below). You can pay your dues either in person (to 
Alexei or Timofei), or via PayPal donation.

If you are not willing to be a paid member of the club, but would 
still like to receive mailing list announcements, don't worry - you 
name will remain on the list.

Lastly, if you want to make a suggestion for a club activity in the 
2003-2004 year, by all means let us know!

24 Apr 2003. Food Fair

Caltech Russian Club has continued its tradition of proudly representing our culture at Caltech-wide events with Russian Club table at the International Food Fair last week. Our borscht, bliny and pirozhki were a huge success. We also thank the folk singers from the Bay Area who performed at the Fair and everybody who stopped at our table to give us encouragement and compliment our cooking.

Pictures:

• Setting up the table. Timoha (olivier), Alexei
• Serving food to hungry techers
• President's thumbs up
• Rustem (borsht, vatrushki)
• Alexei, Tania & Olga (pirozhki)
• Dina, Olga, Maya (bliny)
• Victor
• Petia

08 Apr 2003. Sad State of Affairs.

The Russian-speaking Caltech community seems to have diverged and compartmentalized and the level of activity in 2003 is very low. We did not bother to get any Caltech club funding in September 2002. If you are a Caltech community member with great ideas on how to change this situation please identify yourself!