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|**BISNISHome PageSearchBISNISEmbassyReportsCountryReportsIndustryReportsPublicationsSourcesof FinanceLeadsand EventsExchangeRatesState ExportsOtherSources** |  | February 1998U.S. Agency for International Development--USAID has opened a new office in
Seattle, Washington to conduct outreach to the business community on the agency's business
development and finance programs throughout Russia.  The office provides information on
potential Russian small- and medium-sized business partners already involved in USAID-supported technical assistance programs.  The Seattle office will focus initially on developing
business ties between the Northwestern United States and the Russian Far East, although it will
also support activities elsewhere in Russia and the NIS.  For more information, contact Christine
Nasser at 206-464-7143 (voice), 206-464-7222 (fax), or by e-mail at
[email protected].Department of Commerce/SABIT--The Commerce Department's SABIT program is
currently recruiting U.S. companies and organizations working in the mining industry to
participate in the second session of the SABIT Russian Far East (RFE) Program.  SABIT will
bring 15 middle- and senior -level business managers, specialists, and local officials from the
RFE's mining sector to the United States for industry training and business networking with small,
medium-sized, and large U.S. companies.  The six-week session will begin on February 23, 1997. 
For more information, contact Jeff Steele at SABIT at 202-482-0073.U.S. Department of Commerce/Commerial Service--The American Business Center-Novosibirsk closed permanently on December 31, 1997.  The ABC-Novosibirsk, which opened in
April 1994, was operated by SAIC under a grant from the Commercial Service of the U.S.
Department of Commerce.This report is provided courtesy of the Business Information Service for the Newly
Independent States (BISNIS)