Russian Online Resource Centres

Russian and East European Network Information Center

Academic databases and information services throughout the Internet World. From the University of Texas at Austin. Managed by the Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies: Information on and from Eastern Europe and FSU. Links to news sources. Thousands of files available via Gopher.

REESweb

Russian and East European Studies. Vast resource. Check out David J. Birnbaum's slavic linguistics page.

SovInformBureau

"An ultimate source of information on Russian/Soviet related issues that is located at the Computer Science Department of the University of Maryland, College Park." Good selection of Russian-related software available as well, including Cyrillic fonts.

Friends and Partners

"One of the first information systems jointly developed by citizens of [the US and Russia]," this resource is famous for the depth and breadth of its current information from Russia.

Materials Related to Russia

List of Russian WWW-servers

Courtesy of the Informational and Publishing Sector Webserver.

Open Media Research Institute

Based in the Czech Republic, OMRI provides twice-daily digests from and about the media of the Former Soviet Union.

Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit

A hypermedia exhibit of the FSU's "dirty laundry" provided by the US Govt and NCSA, the makers of the Mosaic browser, these documents became available for the first time shortly after Yeltsin assumed command of the country.

Relcom's Window-to-Russia

"Window-to-Russia (TM) is a Moscow-based project by Relcom Corporation, initiated to give the worldwide network community the means of WWW access to the variety of information resources from and about Russia."

Elvis+ Webserver

"A Private Innovative Russian Company." To get the Cyrillic KOI-8 fonts available from this webserver, click here. Also check out Today's USD Exchange Rate in Russia.

Welcome to St. Petersburg

Brought to you by The St. Petersburg Press, EUnet/Relcom and NEVAlink Co.

Russian and Soviet-Related Files

Thousands available by FTP from Finland.

Moscow State University

The main webserver of Lomonosov Moscow State University, this is perhaps the premier academic server in all the Former Soviet Union.

Dazhdbog's Grandsons

Strong in cultural subjects like art, music, and poetry.

Russia-Related Sites

Compliments of the Baltic WWW Node of a joint project between the UN Development Programme and CIESIN.

Novosibirsk State University (NSU)

This is the rector's statement, in English. The accompanying photo is priceless. The Home Page of NSU is here, and its Centre for New Information Technologies is here.

News and Current Events

Russian News Jumplist

Links to most of the availiable online news resources relating to the Former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, compliments of the University of Stirling.

GlasNews

"A quarterly publication on East-West contacts in all aspects of communications - including journalism, telecommunications, photography, opinion research, advertising and public relations."

The St.Petersburg Press

The premier English-language daily published in the city of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, too.

Gazeta On-line

"Zamierzamy publikowac w World Wide Web cala zawartosc naszej gazety. Wydanie elektroniczne Gazety Wyborczej bedzie sie nazywac Gazeta On-line." Poland.

British Academic Resources

• Russian Department, Durham University
• Oxford University Language Centre
• Modern and Medieval Languages, Cambridge University
• Centre for Russian and East European Studies, U. of Birmingham
• Post-Soviet Regional Research in the Department of Geography, U. of Edinburgh
• UK Guide
• UK Academic Webservers
• Bristol's Social Science International Gateway, SOSIG Searching the Internet's academic resources . . .
• Russian Studies E-mail List
• Oxford University Press.
• East-West-Research E-mail List
• University of Glasgow's Language Centre Jumplist
• The Bahktin Centre, University of Sheffield

Miscellaneous

• ABSEES Online, (c) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a database containing over 13,000 bibliographic references for journal articles, government and research papers, Ph.D. dissertations, books, and chapters of books on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The references are from publications in the US and Canada only. The database allows multiple search criteria on 9 different fields including author, title, publisher, place of publication and date. Ethnological and Anthropological focus. To access, click here and wait for a bit.

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