Network Acts
July-August 2000
September-October 2000
The webmaster was able to locate and contact several other expatriate graduates, of whom the information came from graduates in Russia. It so happens that both newly found graduates reside in the State of Washington in the Northwest of the US. Several graduates residing in Europe were also found, but they have not provided sufficient information to be reflected as of October 2000. Also, some personal information on previously listed alumni was corrected and links to related sites were updated.
One more expatriate MMI alumnus residing in the US, New England, was listed. Contact was established with one graduate in Germany, and some other prospective European listings were in the works.
The first expatriate MMI alumnus residing in Europe (Germany) was listed November 08, 2000.
A new subweb of the Network,
Network Acts, entered design phase. The subweb will carry pictures of the
listed alumni and tell stories of their adventures.
December 2000
The Network Acts subweb was
launched on December 09, 2000, with the story of A. Orlov's visit to the island
of Kauai, Hawaii, and the site of Fort Elizabeth, the former Russian settlement
on the island.
On December 13 some slanderous
information was published on the unofficial site of MMI students. The webmaster
solicited opinions of the alumni community and requested that information be
removed from that site, but it was not. Under the circumstances and in line
with the opinion of the community, it became impossible to be linked to that
site, and the link was removed December 17, 2000.
January 2001
A pilot website of Minsk-based MMI
alumni association unveiled January 26, 2001. The site was www.clubviminsk.by.ru.
The webmaster was in Atlanta, GA, on January 15 and met I. Arkhipov..
The first Australia-based alumnus
was found in January and listed on January 31.
February 2001
MMI alumni celebrated the 61st anniversary of the Institute in one of Moscow's largest reception halls. About 3000 alumni, faculty, staff and students reportedly showed up. One network member, Yu. Koshkin, attended the event while on a business trip to Moscow.
During February 01-26 the site was not opening for editing. The webmaster believes this was caused by a failure on the hosting server side. It never opened, and about 75% of the site had to be redone almost from scratch.
A web site of the MMI Law School got its ribbon cut on March 23.
May-June 2001
One new site of the MMI community was commissioned. This time the 1993 graduates of the Eastern Languages School made their contribution.
The webmaster graduated Summa Cum Laude from Athens State University (Athens, AL) with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and late in May joined a software company in Birmingham, AL, as software engineer. Due to circumstances he was not able to update this site during most part of May and June.
The MMI Alumni Association celebrated the Day of Interpreter on May 19.
July-September 2001
The MMI network expanded in the Eastern Hemisphere, locating one alumnus in Australia and one in Cambodia.
Links to Alumni Associations and
alumni lists of several other former USSR universities were placed on the home
page. These links were checked in September, two were updated, two others were
found inactive and marked so until further notice.
October 2001 - January 2003
The website received fractional irregular updates.
February 2003
A new page with information on Russian Expatriate communities world over was added. Communities were grouped by location and by education.
© Art Shvetsov 2000-2003