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Resources by Area: Russia
Bibliographies
| Dictionaries | Directories
| Encyclopedias | Maps |
Survey Data & Statistics | Other
General and Online Media Sources
Moscow
Times
An excellent English-language newspaper, with good daily coverage.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/
Natsional'naya
sluzhba novostei
Includes a great deal of information about the mass media.
http://www.nns.ru/
Panorama
Has general information and links to government and party web sites;
it has no obvious political bias.
http://panorama.ru/
vlast.rambler.ru
In Russian (requires Cyrillic fonts).
http://www.vlast.rambler.ru
East-West
Institute's Russian Regional Report
Good source for information on Russia's regions.
http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf
Russia's
Regions Present Themselves on the Internet
List of links to various Russian regional web sites.
http://library.uraic.ru/~neubert/region.htm
Russian
Regional Database
More information on Russia's regions.
http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk/catalog11_0.html
Bibliographies
Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html#russian
Encyclopedias
http://www.encyclopedia.ru
Maps
http://www.nakarte.ru
Survey Data
& Statistics
Fond
"Obshchestvennoe Mnenie"
Aleksandr Oslon's Public Opinion Foundation. Tons of public opinion
data. The foundation does contracts for the Kremlin, but has other
clients and generates and puts out high-quality data.
http://www.fom.ru/
Goskomstat
of Russia
The main web site of the Russian state statistics committee; comprehensive
official economic and demographic information.
http://www.gks.ru/eng/default.asp
Russian
Economic Trends Database
Now by subscription. Best source for current economic information
on Russia. Also has data from 1997-2000.
http://www.hhs.se/site/ret/ret.htm
Other
flb.ru
News and gossip. Put out by Agenstvo federalnykh issledovanii, relying
originally on materials purloined by members of Vladimir Gusinskii's
security service. Contains some nuggets not found elsewhere.
http://www.flb.ru/
polit.ru
News and gossip. Controlled by the same media group as Izvestiya
and Komsomolskaya pravda, now very loyal to Kremlin.
http://polit.ru
stringeragency.ru
Political gossip and kompromat, coming from Aleksandr Korzhakov's
group. Anti-Yeltsin, anti-Putin.
http://www.stringeragency.ru/
strana.ru
News and gossip. Set up as a pro-Kremlin voice by Gleb Pavlovskii
with money from one of the oligarchs (Abramovich). Pavlovskii withdrew
from it in late 2001 over alleged FSB influence.
http://www.strana.ru/
Traveller's
Yellow Pages
General city information on Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, and
Vyborg, including yellow pages, weather reports, business, etc.
http://www.infoservices.com/
http://www.fotw.net/flags/ru.html
Information about the Russian flag: symbolism, practices, songs,
holidays, etc.
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