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For Immediate Release				April 26, 1999


Russian Professor Offers Glimpse of Life in Kurgan in Lawrence University
Lecture 

          APPLETON, WIS. -- Natelya Bochegona shares her perspective as an
average Russian citizen on the current living conditions in Kurgan
-- Appleton's sister city in the former Soviet Union -- in an address
Wednesday, May 5 at Lawrence University.  The event, at 4:15 p.m. in Main
Hall Room 109, is free and open to the public.
     An English teacher at the Kurgan State University since 1977, Bochegona
will provide an overview of the present economic, political and social
conditions in Kurgan, including what she describes as "disguised
unemployment" and the challenges of receiving only 60 or 70 percent of
promised salaries.
     Bochegona has been giving a series of guest lectures to Lawrence
classes since the end of March as part of a faculty exchange program.  Since
1991, Lawrence has sponsored an off-campus study program with the Kurgan
State University in which Lawrence students travel to Kurgan for a term of
language instruction and an equal number of Kurgan students come to
Lawrence.