European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus 994 �. Moscow Art dealer Nataya Bykova left says flirting and sexual swaggering is part of doing business in Russia. Wanted Secretary without inhibitions not by Alessandra Stanle the new York times he advertisement for a Secretary in a Moscow newspaper listed computer skills typing English and German As necessary qualifications. It also specified that applicants should be 18 to 25, 5 foot 7 and have Long hair. There win be a contest it said. The advertisement was just one of scores placed every Day that list youth and sex Appeal As Job requirements. It was also among the More courtly. Some russian employers include another prerequisite in their advertisements Bez Kom Aleksov or without  everyone in Russia knows what that Means. In Moscow s bustling new business Community it is usually not frowned upon to Grope the Secretary to require that the new office manager be single Long legged and Blond or to offer to discuss a filing clerk s raise after work in a hotel room and dismiss her if she refuses sexual harassment in the workplace is rampant in today s Russia and the sexism that thrived under the communists is growing worse aggravated feminists say by the new lawlessness that rules the business world. The new Russia is known for its violence. There is also a Heady sense of permissiveness fed by pornographic videos sexy advertising nightclubs casinos Beauty contests nude pinups and open prostitution. This has helped spawn a workplace climate of sexual swaggering and bullying that is no longer imaginable in the United states after figures like Anita Hill and Robert Packwood made the term sexual harassment part of the National lexicon. Women View their bodies As a Way of furthering their careers that s just the Way it is said Igor Bunin the author of a study on the new russian businessmen published this Spring. Sexual harassment is absolutely not a real problem in  i assure you he added there is no opposition on the part of women to  Natalya Byrona who owns her own Chic Art gallery the no gallery in downtown Moscow revealed her own Way of handling the sexism of women View their bodies As a Way of furthering their careers that s just the Way it is. Sexual harassment is absolutely not a real problem in Russia Igor Bunin russian business writer her countrymen. She said that her own Businesslike Demeanour is off putting to russian men. To put them at ease she takes her sexy and flirtatious assistant with her to " business meetings As a Decoy. Everyone knows the flirting and seduction is a game Byrona said. But its the  i the Moscow women s Bank r. Which advertises its services in the Moscow subway is not quite a Bank and not exactly a feminist Enterprise. Alia Udalovas the Deputy director said the company does some banking and also other kinds of business including hiring waitresses for a nightclub. She said sexual harassment and discrimination were not an Issue at the company. Her Boss Yaroslav Ange Yuk agreed. If a woman working for me gets married he explained cheerfully i fire  Many women look upon that attitude quite differently. Irina 23, a graphic designer who did not want her last name used said she quit her Job at a Moscow publishing House after her Boss kept grabbing her and pressuring her to sleep with him. Can understand that men want to look she said. But they should t be allowed to do something to me that i Don t  a gradual change is occurring in some parts of the country without publicity or fanfare the first known sexual harassment Case went to court in Russia this year in Barnaul a City in Southern Siberia. Sexual harassment which in russian Law is defined As a Boss demanding sexual favors from subordinates is a criminal offence As it was in the former soviet Union. But the statute was so rarely enforced that prosecutors in Barnaul and Moscow could not cite a single precedent. The feminist movement in Russia remains Small and if anything it is in decline its few Active members complain that the status of women has Only deteriorated since the demise of communism. On average women in 1991 earned 75 percent As much As men according to the Center for gender studies in Moscow but now that figure has dropped to 40 percent. Unemployment is three times higher among women than among men. Though there Are no reliable statistics women s groups say Domestic violence is soaring. The first registered rape recovery Center and a crisis hot line for abused women recently opened in Moscow Short subject powerful forces Battle Over Guam Refuge by William Branigin c the Washington Post in a Long running dispute Between the . Military and the government of 3uam Over land rights the outcome is for the Birds. Or possibly for the snakes. The reptiles and their feathered prey Are among the factors in a controversy Over the Fate of More than 22,500 acres one sixth of the total size of the . Territory. Behind the primordial struggle of Bird and Snake Are issues of . Conservation and perceived colonialism the rights of private landowners is. American defense needs and ultimately the development of the Pacific Island Long regarded As a strategic outpost. The acreage at the Northern end of Guam is part of vast tracts amounting to about a third of the Island that were confiscated by the . Military As it was preparing to invade Japan near the end of world War ii. The land in question was finally relinquished sort of by the Navy and air Force this Spring. Instead of turning the land Over to the Guam government or private claimants however the military in effect handed it to the . Fish and wildlife service through an overlay " arrangement meaning that the service will now manage the land for the military for conservation purposes. The move kept the land in the Federal family suddenly expanding the Guam National wildlife Refuge from 317 acres to 22,873 acres. Critics of the action said it smacked of . Colonialism and was done without consulting the people of Guam or holding Public hearings. . Federal officials countered that the Refuge designation was originally sough by Guam gov. Joseph f. Ada although not so much to save Birds As to prevent the Navy from building a radar facility and submarine monitoring station. The intended beneficiaries of the expanded Refuge Are supposed to be Guam s endangered native Birds species such As the micronesian Kingfisher and Guam rail a flightless roadrunner. But some islanders fear that the ultimate Winner May be the Brown tree Snake a venomous predator that reportedly was introduced to the Snake less Island by Accident in military cargo after world War ii. With no natural enemies on the Island the snakes have proliferated to the Point that they have practically wiped out at least 10 indigenous Bird species in the wild arid now threaten the Marianas fruit Bat. The place is crawling with snakes and they eat the Birds Guam government spokesman Mark Forbes said. As for the fruit bats he said the population is hanging on by its  especially worrisome to the Guam government has been pressure from the Audubon society to have the Interior department declare the Refuge a critical habitat for a variety of Forest Birds. This would involve stringent land use restrictions aimed at preserving the endangered species habitat a widespread perception in Guam is that neither the . Military nor the Federal government needs so much of Guam s land any More especially at a time of defense budget cuts that Are forcing the Navy and air 5�s a Down their presence on the Island. The Guam naval air station Long sought by Guam s government is scheduled to close next year. In a commentary during the controversy Joe " a editor emeritus of the Pacific daily new the expansion of the wildlife refuse offended by he Lack of consultation adding " can t believe this is America s idea of Justice a Duse Malim Index de Elp often hey rage veins. Map ened 22 the stars and stripes he ered in a ild in be by 3c- 92,  monday August 8,1994