U.S. philanthropist offers $100-million to speed Russian Internet access.

UNIVERSITIES & colleges; SOROS, George, 1930-; COMPUTER network resources

Reports that George Soros plans to donate $100 million to a five-year program to link about 30 Russian universities to the Internet. Soros' meeting with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin; Some conditions of the agreement; The undertaking being one of the most ambitious of the various philanthropic ventures of Soros.