In 1990, riding the twin waves of perestroika and glasnost, IU's SPEA and
the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies sponsored a first-of-its
kind conference on environmental degradation in Soviet Central Asia.
Focusing on the crisis of the Aral Sea, scientists and policymakers
gathered in Bloomington to discuss the ecological issues that were
causing the sea to literally vanish from the face of the earth.
IU is now the leading U.S. publisher of Slavic books. Last month, the
university acquired Slavica Publishers Inc., which specializes in textbooks
in Slavic and East European languages, linguistics, literature and thematic
collections of articles.
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