e-learning in the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIS_countries]CIS countries[/url].

Prof. Yuri Rubin, [url=http://www.mifp.ru/cgi/gs.pl?lang=eng]The Moscow University of Finance and Industry (MIFP)[/url], Russia
The Status of E-Learning in CIS Countries:
- about 400 universities are changing the paradigma of learning.
- the relations between universities and business are close
- he describes eLearning as Extreme Learning.

Prof. Valery Ovsyannikov, [url=http://www.minedu.unibel.by/]Education Ministry[/url] of the Republic of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus]Belarus[/url].
The Role of Governmental Institutions in Coordination of On-line Programs
His presentation is in russian language (he use an english interpreter).
- he says, that they have not enough universities (43 state universities with 360.000 students).
- eLearning is not common, most of the universities use traditional methods of education.
- Now they have 8 universities which are trying e-learning methods. That is the reason why he is here at online educa.

Dr. Anton Ilyinskiy, Social Council for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Russia
The Role of Social Institutions in Quality Assurance Process of E-Learning Programs in CIS Countries
Hm, i understand not so much. He is reading his presentation from a piece of paper in fast russian english .
He has his focus on standards, curricula, educational technologies

Prof. Nikolai Shevelev, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perm]Perm[/url] State Technical University, Russia.
Another presentation in russian language with an english interpreter.
- The Perm area is three times bigger than France and the population is 3.000.000. It has the fourth place in russian economy with a well developed industry.
- [url=http://perm.ru/eng/]Perm[/url] is the capital of eastern ural with 1.000.000 inhabitants, 6 universities. 35.000 Students.
- they have an distance learning center with about 1.000 students
- they teach in c++, c#, .net and Stratum2000. [i](It sounds a bit that they are very Microsoft oriented)[/i]. Stratum2000 is a modeling environment they have developed.
http://www.stratum.ac.ru

They have a big problem with traditional teachers. They are not able to use the modern media and they need training!

So in the last 90 minutes, I have learned a lot about russia
have I said that machm-it.org is partly available in [url=http://www.machm-it.org/index.php?newlang=russian]russian language[/url]?