MEDIA ADVISORY



U.VA. CONFERENCE EXAMINES THE CHANGING FACE OF RUSSIA 

	To work effectively in Russia, it's important to keep up with
change. 

	Dozens of business representatives and government officials
from around the country will gather in Charlottesville from March 31
through April 2, to attend a conference on "Russia's Future and
American National Interests."

	Co-sponsored by the University of Virginia's Division of
Continuing Education and the Center for Russian and East European
Studies, the annual conference is not open to the public without prior
registration, but reporters are welcome to attend any of the events. 

	The presentations, which will be held at Zehmer Hall, begin at
8:30 a.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Topics will include domestic
political change and Russian foreign policy, presented by Allen C.
Lynch, associate professor at U.Va.'s Woodrow Wilson Department of
Government and Foreign Affairs; the changing Russian marketplace and
development of commercial law, presented by Paul B. Stephan III,
Barron F. Black Research Professor of Law, U.Va.'s School of Law; the
progress of dismantling nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union,
presented by Robert Yablonski, U.S. Air Force colonel and chief of the
START/INF Division, On-Site Inspection Agency, U.S. Department of
Defense, and by Joseph P. Harahan, historian, On-Site Inspection
Agency, U.S. Department of Defense. 

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March 26, 1997

	For more information, call John Redick, program specialist
with U.Va.'s Division of Continuing Education at (804) 982-5274.
Television reporters should call our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.