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If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try the General Resources page. In general, it is useful to check subject directories such as AtRus or www.stars.ru under any of the categories listed below for the most current links. There is a complete list of such search engines under the category "Search Engines". Arms Control Research CentersURL: http://www.pircenter.org/cgi-bin/pirnews/mainpage.cgi The Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR) is an independent, non-governmental research organization which focuses on international security, arms control and nonproliferation. A weekly bulletin on weapons (in Russian only) available online; monthly paper on arms control (in English) available with free subscription. Print subscriptions also available, (Yaderny Kontrol is their well-known publication on nuclear control) but they are not free. Site is in Russian and English. URL: http://www.carnegie.ru/en/ The Moscow Center is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Center has many research areas, one of the largest deals with nonproliferation and arms control issues. Many publications are available online in PDF format. The site is in English and Russian. URL: http://www.armscontrol.org/country/russia/ This site is the list of resources on Russia provided by the Arms Control Association. It contains several links to news, documents and analysis pertaining to the arms control in Russia. The site is in English. URL: http://www.ransac.org/ The Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council (RANSAC) is a non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC which produces research publications on the issues of nuclear nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction, and other arms issues pertaining to the former USSR. The site is in English, though some of the publications are in Russian as well as English. URL: http://www.armscontrol.ru/ Many publications on Arms Control, mostly in Russian but some are in English as well. Business and EconomicsURL: http://www.rtsnet.ru/ This site is run by the Russian Trade System, an inter-regional, over-the-counter system, established in 1995. It was until recently the only automated trading system in the Russian stock market. A variety of market related sites are accessible from the page of references. The site is available in Russian and English. It is possible to get quotes on any stock traded on this market via a search engine on the site. There is also information on this site on the laws governing the stock market in Russia. This site is also an access point for a commercial news service that is available only for a fee. URL: http://www.cbr.ru/statistics/credit_statistics/ In Russian. Put up by the Bank of Russia. This site can be viewed in Mac or Windows (cp1251). It contains information about monetary policy and financial statistics. It also has a summary of loans with the USA, balance of payments and international credit services for the period 1994-2000. There are links to the Central Bankof Russia, to a site on the history of banking systems during the Russian empire (19th century), and to an address directory that unfortunately is not functioning at the present time. URL: http://www.minfin.ru/home.htm Official site of the Ministry of Finances of the Russian Federation. In Russian. URL: http://www.economy.gov.ru/wps/portal Official site of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. In Russian. URL: http://www.russianeconomy.org/ This site is authored by two fellows from the Hoover Institution (Stanford University). It contains articles and reports on the Russian economy produced by the Hoover Institution, and has a page of links to several resources. The site is in English, though many of the links provided go to Russian-only sites. URL: http://www.gateway2russia.com/ This site was created and is maintained by The Expert Group (a company which specializes in analysis of contemporary Russian economics, politics and society) through a contract with The Financial Times, which supplies the information contained within the site. Created in 2003, the Gateway project seeks to provide the most up to date information on Russian markets and corporations. Site contains several full text links to reports produced by the World Bank and similar agencies, the site is in English. URL: http://www.economy.gov.ru/ Official governmental site; provides up to date information on stocks, trade, and economic development. Site is only in Russian. URL: http://www.arec.ru/eng/ Portal for business and industrial economy of Russia. Contains links to several Russian companies in the industrial, agrarian and business sector. Site is in English, though some of the companies linked to have Russian-only sites. URL: http://www.wciom.ru/ VTsOIM is the acronym for The All Russian Public Opinion Research Center, which is a large research organization that studies public opinions through mass polling for socio-economic, socio-political and marketing research. The site is in Russian and English. URL: http://www.bisnis.doc.gov Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS) is part of the US Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration and its purpose is to promote business and investment opportunities in the NIS region. The site provides market information, country and industry reports, and other resources. Site is in English and Russian. CultureURL: http://www.artinfo.ru This site is sponsored by the multimedia publisher Artinfo. The company has been sponsored by Russian Culture Fund and ITAR-TASS. The site is kept very current and is an excellent source for art information online outside the Russian context. It is an outstanding source for information on modern Russian art. For visual artists biographical, bibliographical and exhibition information is supplied. There are also online images linked to each entry on the artists. URL: http://library.uraic.ru/~artsearch/index.htm This list of information resources on the arts is sponsored by the library at Sverdlovsk. The sites here are monitored by the librarians. They are limited to sites in Russian on art, in English on Russian art or in various languages on art in general. Art is defined rather generally. The user can select from several categories: general categories, history of art, art networks, artists, museums, galleries, periodical publications, art education, libraries. URL: http://www.museum.ru "Comprehensive site containing information about most Russian museums, galleries and cultural websites. Selected websites, CD disks collection, information for tourists..." (Muzei Rossii, home page) The site is maintained by the State Darwin Museum. It has been in existence since 1996. It is a very good site for a wide variety of cultural information. URL: http://www.encyclopedia.ru This is the main page for a number of encyclopedias, general and subject specific, all of which were searchable for free at the time of this writing (11/1/2000). Along with a link to the Brokgaus and Kirill and Mefodius encyclopedias, there were also links to the legal encyclopedia and the great biographical encyclopedia. Clearly this valuable resource is useful in a number of areas not limited to studies of culture. DictionariesURL: http://www.bucknell.edu/Russian/ This is another of Bucknell's many wonderful sites with a large number of carefully selected links to online dictionaries. Some of the links are to Brockhaus On-Line Generative Dictionary, Mueller's English-Russian dictionary on-line, Russian Dictionary with Sounds & Images, and more. This is an excellent English language site, well maintained and annotated. Educational InstitutionsURL: http://www.edunews.ru/ This is an excellent site, intended for students applying for university. The site is organized by level of institution and then by location. There are links to every institution listed. The site has a variety of information on education and numerous links. It is updated frequently and is maintained by NTTS. URL: http://www.ed.gov.ru/ Offical site of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. In Russian. Fonts and KeyboardsURL: http://www.siber.com/sib/russify This site is in English and gives very thorough and clear explanations on adding cyrillic characters to your computer. There is information on fonts and keyboards and their use in a variety of different platforms including Windows, DOS, OS/2 Apple, and Amiga. The links on Windows have one problem related to Windows 98. This site does not differentiate between adding cyrillic keyboards to Windows 95 and Windows 98. They do not work in the same manner. They list Windows 98 as a separate entry on the main page, but as of this writing there was no separate explanation. The information for all other versions of Windows has been very helpful. The site is part of the SovInformBureau or SIB, a site maintained by a Vadim Maslov. When last checked it had been updated in January 2000. URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor These pages are in English and are maintained by an individual who has had a consistent interest in the problems of russifying online systems. Although it is sometimes difficult to navigate, you can frequently find information here on problem areas such as the Windows98 issue mentioned above. GenealogyURL: http://iro.newmail.ru This site was established in 1999 and contains some excellent links to a variety of sources as well as many resources for anyone interested in their Russian ancestry. The pages contain email contributions on various families reprinted information on noble families. The links off the page on the Russian nobility are especially interesting sites here with information on heraldry around the world, tips on working on genealogy and a number of other topics. There are references to paper sources, not yet available on line at this site as well. The site has an English component and has links to the Russian diaspora. It is a commercial site. Government and LawURL: http://gosorgan.amursk.ru/ Another set of links to web sites for federal organs of government, parties and political movements, non-governmental organizations, and state symbols. The list is very thorough and the compilers are listed as a B. Fominyh and A. Mitrofanov. The site was established in 1998. URL: http://www.gov.ru/ This page is created and maintained by the Russian federal government. It is a compilation of all government institutions at the federal level. The text is in both Russian and English. It provides information on the Russian government as well as updated news on federal politics. It is a representation of the bodies and main institutions related to the federal government, namely the Russian federal defense system, the Russian presidency, and the federal court. URL: http://president.kremlin.ru/ Official site of the President of the Russian Federation. Site is in English and Russian. There is an intro with pictures and moving images, which may cause some problems for slower internet connections, but it is possible to skip the intro. URL: http://www.akdi.ru/internet/ye/akdi.htm This site is in Russian. It has a complete listing of links to all government agencies. One of the most valuable listings is that of the links to all the regional government pages. The government agencies are listed by type and are described at some length. The site is maintained by Agentstvo Konsultatsii i Delovoi Informatsii. URL: http://www.supcourt.ru/ Official Site of the Russian Supreme Court. Most of the site is in Russian, but there is general background information, plus a link to the Russian Constitution in English. Russian version contains links to various Russian courts, news, and other information. URL: http://www.mid.ru/ This site contains many documents, press releases, news items and official transcripts of MFA activites. The site can be viewed in Russian (most comprehensive), English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Chinese. URL: http://www.bu.edu/polisci/LINKS/Search.html This site is a search portal maintained by the Political Science Department at Boston University. It contains links to political science indexes as well as general internet search sites. Although these indexes are not specifically focused on the Russian and E. European region, it provides several good access points for general Politcal Science study. URL: http://www.russiavotes.org/ This site is a joint project if the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland (Director: Professor Richard Rose), and The Levada Center (Director: Yuri Levada). It provides data and analysis of Russian politics, with sections covering the Duma, the President, Welfare, and Security, presented in a readable, accessible format. Site is in English. URL: http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/ru.html The Russian page of the site Governments on the WWW, from their homepage: "Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002". The site is run by an individual named Gunnar Anzinger and is included in the "Library of Congress September 11 Web Archive". The links are updated and checked frequently and it is noted when a new one is added, or an existing one has been updated. This is a very comprehensive list, an excellent starting point for conducting research on the government of Russia. Site is in English. (**note to self- I googled this guy, and seems like a lot of people link to his page including LOC, although it's not clear exactly who he is…) Language and LiteratureURL: http://www.encyclopedia.ru This link is described above in more detail. There are a number of links that are useful for literature listed under the headings for special and personal encyclopedias. URL: http://lib.ru/ This is a list of links to prose, poetry, drama and fiction in Russian in electronic form. This site contains a large number of titles and their full text in Russian. The page is maintained by a systems specialist at the Russian Academy of Sciences. It has been available for some years and is updated frequently. The site is organized by broad genre. There is a large amount of samizdat material here. URL: http://www.fplib.org/literature/index.html This site is in Russian and English. It contains full text poetry from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. There are also sections for poetry for children, foriegn literature, quotes, proverbs, and a photo gallery. URL: http://www.litera.ru/ This site is an excellent source for identifying information on individual writers and other links on Russian literature. The site has been in existence in some form or another since 1997. In 1999 it was taken over by the editors of Russkii zhurnal and combined with the site "Sovremennoe iskusstvo v seti". It includes links to Russian literary journals, encyclopedias, libraries and publishers. URL: http://www.sovlit.com/ This site provides information on many genres of Soviet literature, as well as short biographies of several writers and over 1,000 "mini summaries" of works. It is unclear who maintains this site, it is in English. Libraries and ArchivesNOTE: If you do not find information for a specific library, another strategy would be to try a search on the term "biblioteki" in one of the Russian search engines. This type of search requires the use of cyrillic characters. URL: http://www.openweb.ru/stepanov/library.htm This is an annotated list of links to Russian library catalogs that are available online. The site is just one of the resources available at the State Historical Library's web site. URL: http://www.rsl.ru This is the web site of the Russian State Library, formerly the Leninka. The site is in Russian and requires the use of Russian fonts. The library has numerous resources. Perhaps of the greatest interest are the online catalogs. These include the library's monographic acquisitions from 1994 on. There are other catalogs: books received in the library in the last week; journals received since 1998, dissertations received since 1995 and maps and atlases obtained since 1985. The catalogs are easy to search. URL: http://www.iisg.nl/~abb/ In English, last updated in February 2000. This is an abbreviated version of Patricia Grimsted's longer studies on archives. The site is searchable by keyword. It is an extremely rich source of information on the federal archives in Russia, providing the user with an excellent description of the archive, its holdings, printed guides to the holdings and a broad range of other information. MapsURL: http://www.russiamaps.newmail.ru/index.html This Russian site is perhaps the most complete set of links to maps for all maps of Russian cities. The annotations are in Russian, but many of the links are to U.S. or European locations and Western language resources. At the very bottom of the page there are links to a selection of historical maps. This is a fairly new site and there is no resource page on the author at present. URL: http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html Historical Maps collected by the Federation of East European Family History Societies. MediaIt is perhaps in this category more than any other that it is helpful to use some of the general search engines/portals for locating large lists of titles. One that has proven particularly useful is Sozvezdie Internet (http://www.stars.ru). The site is really a portal. In the category "Sredstva massovoi informatsii" there is a subheading "Gazety i zhurnaly". Clicking on this entry will produce a list organized into the following categories: World Press, the press of the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Russian press, sports, and electronic publications. There is also a search engine allowing you to search for individual titles. This is just one example of how the search engines are, in some cases, as effective as devised lists. There are some access points to radio and television through
the general sites.
Another excellent list of radio and television resources
can be found at List.ru (http://www.list.ru) under "SMI:
radio: radio-katalog".
Sozvezdie Internet is an excellent source for checking
the news agencies, such as ITAR-TASS and Interfaks.
It is listed under the same heading on the main page of
this site. URL: http://www.allrussia.ru/atlas This site is an analytic-information site on the Russian Press. At this writing (11-07-2000) the site was being reorganized and was due to be reposted December 1, 2000. It is updated frequently. The International Association of Newspaper and Media Technologies (IFRA) maintains the regional list of papers. The site is in Russian and is organized geographically. From this site it is possible to link to almost all newspapers online and to obtain publication information and addresses for those that are not. URL: http://www.nounb.sci-nnov.ru/library/rus/internet/gazety.html This is a site maintained by Nizhegorodskaia Regional Universal Scientific Library. It has been in existence for some years and is updated frequently. The list is arranged in alphabetical order by title. Journals and newspapers are interfiled. The site has introductory information in English, but the majority of the site is in Russian. URL: http://shura.kulichki.net/papers1.htm This site is maintained by a private individual but is very thorough. The site indicates which titles provide free web access and which require subscriptions. All titles are listed alphabetically in Russian. URL: http://cataclysm.sai.msu.ru/www/radio.html The compiler claims this to be the most complete listing of online radio and television sites in Russian on the internet. The site does have a large listing and appears to be very well maintained. Bad links are marked and when they are replaced it is noted in the "News" column on the page. The site is in English and Russian. URL: http://www.guzei.com/radio/ This is an excellent site for information on radio stations both on and off the Internet. The site includes a geographically arranged list of Radio stations. There is also a list of Internet radio stations. The site is commercial, but again, the authority is unclear. There are links here to assist in downloading files for listening to radio online. The FAQ pages are helpful if the user runs into problems. URL: http://library.uncg.edu/news/nq-state.asp?dbstate=363 This list is compiled and maintained by the Walter Clinton Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It contains links to several Russian news sites. This is a free service, users may set up an account and create personalized lists of sources. In English, though many of the links lead to Russian-only sites. Phone and E-mail DirectoriesURL: http://www.spravka.net/ Telephone directories for all of Russia. The site has links arranged by city name. Any phone or business directories online are listed under the link. It is unclear who maintains the site. URL: http://phone.rin.ru/index_e.html RIN is a private company. This site provides links to several telephone and internet directories. In English and Russian. Political PartiesThere are presently no general guides to all the political parties in Russia. Some of the general political parties resources can help with this. There are many links to the sites of individual parties on the subject directory pages for Russia. Also the links under the heading "Government" on this page have some useful links. In particular, Vsia Vlast' na WWW may be helpful. URL: http://www.cityline.ru/politika/ This is a site that draws on the expertise of the staff of "Panorama" and the national news service. There is a great deal of information in Russian and some in English (such as links to the constitution in English). There are sites on the media, individual party's homepages, etc. The site is well-maintained. URL: http://www.elections.ru/eng_index.html This site is primarily focused on elections but has a great deal of information on political parties and politicians. There are links to individual pages for various parties, election returns, archives of information on parties and elections. The site was launched in February of 1999. It was created and maintained by the Foundation for Effective Politics. "The objective of Elections.Ru is to become the central source of information on the Russian elections in the Internet."(The Internet Parliament, www.elections.ru/english.html ). The site has English and Russian language material. URL: http://www.politicalresources.net/russia.htm page is part of a large website that lists political parties and organizations from around the world; this is the page for Russia. It contains links to party websites, media and organizations. The page is in English, some of the links are to Russian-only sites, but most provide English versions as well. This site is maintained by an Italian news agency, RadioRadicale.it. Search Engines and DirectoriesURL: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Russia.html In English. Search Engine Colossus is a directory of search engines for countries throughout the world. This is their listing for Russia. URL: http://home.inter.net/takakuwa/search/russia.html This is the listing for Russia on a directory site with links to seach engines and directories to over 200 countries. Site is in English. URL: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/ The Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library at the University of Pittsburgh. Browsable and searchable index of electronic resources, very comprehensive. In English. URL: http://www.google.ru URL: http://www.aport.ru URL: http://www.yandex.ru URL: http://www.online.ru URL: http://www.rambler.ru Women's IssuesURL: http://www.owl.ru/win/source.htm A list of links to a broad number of sites for issues of interest to women. It also includes links to the full text of documents concerning women, laws, organizational documents, etc.. The internet links are extensive and useful. The site was established in 1998 and is updated frequently. It was established by the East-West Women's Informational Project. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2533/russfem.html This site is available in English and Russian. Its links are organized by subjects: arts, life/work, health, politics, activism and academic categories. There are also general sources listed here such as personal home pages, organizations, conferences, lesbian, women in other post-communist states and anti-feminist views. It also includes lists of bibliographies and books. The compiler has excluded all pornographic and "matchmaking" sites from the directory. The site is compiled by Elena Leonov in Tver, Russia and has been in existence since 1996. URL: http://www.glasnet.ru/neww/neww_r.htm "Neww is communication network, to create an international discussion among feminists about gender issues in the political and social life of countries in transition in East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union"(Network of East-West Women, Homepage). This is an organization that provides start-up funds for women's centers, provides information for women, helps to build libraries and collaborates with individuals and organizations in media, education, environment, and political lobbying. The organization is located in Washington D.C. The site is especially useful for identifying contacts all over the world concerned with women's issues. The site is in English and Russian. |
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