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|**BISNISHome PageSearchBISNISEmbassyReportsCountryReportsIndustryReportsPublicationsSourcesof FinanceLeadsand EventsExchangeRatesState ExportsOtherSources** |  | July 1997U.S. Department of Commerce/BISNIS -- The Commerce Department's Business
Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS) will take part in the "Russia
and the CIS Business Forum" October 31-November 1, 1997, at the University of Arizona at
Tucson.  The forum will cover political, economic, and legal aspects of doing business in the NIS
countries.  For information, contact Roza Simkhovich at 520-298-6599 (voice/fax).U.S. Small Business Administration -- The U.S. Small Business Administration
(SBA), in cooperation with the Russian Federation State Committee for the Support and
Development of Small Business, will cosponsor a "U.S.-Russia Small Business Expo" November
17-19, 1997 in San Francisco, California.  The expo will consist of a trade exhibition for U.S. and
Russian companies, seminars on key business issues, and "networking" opportunities.  Focus
sectors include agribusiness and food processing, banking and equity services,
construction/building materials, environmental technology, high-technology products, medical
equipment, oil and gas, retail services, timber and wood processing, and tourism.  For more
information, contact Kelly Raftery at 202-205-7260 (voice), 202-205-7272 (fax), or by e-mail at
[email protected].European Bank for Reconstruction and Development -- The European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has expanded its $5 million Swiss-American
Microenterprise Program in Moldova to include a fourth Moldovan bank, Universal Bank. 
For more information, contact Dean Peterson, U.S. Department of Commerce, Senior
Commercial Officer at the EBRD, in London at 011 44 (171) 338-6569 (voice), or  011 44 (171)
338-6487 (fax).This report is provided courtesy of the Business Information Service for the Newly
Independent States (BISNIS)