General Sources
ABSEES Online
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/3055
Principal record on North American research on Russia & Eastern Europe. Records from late 1980s - date. Materials in all formats.
COVERS ALL SUBJECTS. Search here for all queries.
Business & Commerce
- BISNIS Online: Business information Service for the Newly Independent States
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/bisnis.cfm
BISNIS is the U.S. government's primary resource center for U.S. companies exploring business opportunities in Russia and other Newly Independent States. BISNIS provides U.S. companies with the latest market reports and tips on developments, export and investment leads, and strategies for doing business in the NIS. Since opening in 1992, BISNIS has facilitated more than $3 billion worth of U.S. exports and overseas investments
- OKNO Group
http://www.okno.com/
Information about the Group's consulting and trade services related to East Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as information on its publication, The East/West Letter, a bimonthly analytical journal covering business, economic and political developments in the region. This site also has a growing collection of useful information and economic data about the region.
- Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research (VCIOM)
http://www.wciom.ru/
"The Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research (VCIOM) is the largest organization in Russia conducting marketing, social and political research on the basis of regular mass surveys in Russia, CIS and the Baltic States since 1987. Thirty VCIOM regional branch offices and more than 3500 trained interviewers are involved in carrying out various research programs. VCIOM has been accumulating unique trends reflecting the dynamics of the society and market. VCIOM issues a number of special publications based on the collected data."
Communications & Mass Media
- LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/3317
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. Need some Lexis-Nexis searching help? Try our guided exercise on Searching LexisNexis Academic.
Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press--which began in 1949 as the Current Digest of the Soviet Press--and Federal News Service: Official Kremlin International News Broadcasts
are
now available online (you can limit your search to this file by clicking on Sources on the main Universe page linked here, and locating your choice on the pull down menu.
- National Press Institute (NPI)
http://www.npi.ru/
"The National Press Institute is a permanent, nationwide, non-profit Russian organization dedicated to developing the emerging independent and professional mass media as a pillar of a stable, democratic civil society in Russia. Originally established as the Russian-American Press and Information Center (RAPIC) by the New York University Center for War, Peace., and the News Media, NPI promotes the professional standards and the economic and legal conditions necessary to support a reliable, vital media sector serving the needs of an informed and engaged citizenry."
- RFE/RL Newsline
http://www.rferl.org/newsline
This daily report provides expert analysis on major political events and trends in the former USSR (including the Central Asian republics) and Afthanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The serice features daily news headline reports, twelve weekly reports on the region, and country-specific reports. Reports are available in the region's languages and in English; with archives dating back to 2000. The site's main page is found at www.rferl.org.
- World News Connection
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/3059
Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
Economics
- Centre for Cooperation with Non-Members
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_33709_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
The Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members (CCNM) is the focal point for the development and pursuit of policy dialogue between the OECD and non-member economies. Established in January 1998, it merges the work of two former OECD bodies: the Centre for Co-operation with the Economies in Transition (CCET) and the Liaison and Co-ordination Unit (LCU).
- EE-ECON
mailto:LISTPROC@CEP.NONPROFIT.NET
Discussion of economics issues related to Central/Eastern Europe and the NIS.
- Institute "School of Economics" (ISE)
http://ise.openlab.spb.ru/cgi-ise/site/nhome.pl?type=home&lang=eng
"ISE was founded in 1991 as a non-profit organisation by a group of lecturers from St Petersburg's economic universities. Their aim was to improve the quality of economic education at secondary and higher levels in Russia. Following the fall of Marxian orthodoxy in the early '90s Russian schools and universities found themselves lacking the trained staff and literature sources essential for teaching modern economic science. So ISE was established to confront this problem by publishing and widely disseminating textbooks compiled to modern standards, and to conduct intensive retraining programmes for school and university instructors and lecturers."
- Moscow Public Science Foundation (MONF) (Moscow)
http://www.mpsf.org/
Originally founded in 1991, the Moskovskii obshchestvennyi nauchnyi fond is supported by various international organizations. Located at Ulitsa Iaroslavskaia 17, MONF has a number of goals including the "support and organization of scientific investigation in the area of economics, politics, law, sociology and history." This includes an active publications program.
- OKNO Group
http://www.okno.com/
Information about the Group's consulting and trade services related to East Europe and the former Soviet Union as well as information on its publication, The East/West Letter, a bimonthly analytical journal covering business, economic and political developments in the region. This site also has a growing collection of useful information and economic data about the region.
- RASIN (Russian American Student Information Network)
mailto:listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
This network now runs a mailing list to promote discussion concerning their main project, reconstructing the Russian city of Yoryevets. Known as the "Russian Economic Model", this effort will focus on teaching Russians about the mechanics of a free market economy in a working Russian environment.
- World Bank Group: Home Page
http://www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank is a development institution whose
goal is to reduce poverty by promoting sustainable
economic growth in its client countries.
Geography & Environment
- Eurasia.net
http://www.eurasianet.org/index.shtml
Based in New York, EurasiaNet is operated by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute.
Search Central Eurasia Environment Links for information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments.
- World Bank Group: Home Page
http://www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank is a development institution whose
goal is to reduce poverty by promoting sustainable
economic growth in its client countries.
- World News Connection
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/3059
Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
Language & Literature
- SEELANGS
mailto:listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Long-established discussion group dealing with Slavic & East European language & literature.
Law
- East European Constitutional Review
http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/volumes.html
East European Constitutional Review is a quarterly published first by the University of Chicago, and, presently, by New York Unversity Law School and Central European University. EECR, which has been published since 1989, is dedicated to legal and political issues of the transition in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. The review runs features on various aspects of the political, social and economic life in these countries
- EE-LAW
mailto:LISTPROC@CEP.NONPROFIT.NET
Discussion of legal issues related to Central/Eastern Europe and the NIS.
- FPLEGAL
mailto:listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Mailing list designed to help businessmen and practitioners of legal services keep up to date with the Russian Federation's system of laws and regulations.
- Moscow Public Science Foundation (MONF) (Moscow)
http://www.mpsf.org/
Originally founded in 1991, the Moskovskii obshchestvennyi nauchnyi fond is supported by various international organizations. Located at Ulitsa Iaroslavskaia 17, MONF has a number of goals including the "support and organization of scientific investigation in the area of economics, politics, law, sociology and history." This includes an active publications program.
Literature & the Arts
- Russian Art & Architecture
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/art.html
The Bucknell University Russian Studies department offers an annotated directory of Russian art & architecture sites on the Internet.
- SEELANGS
mailto:listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Long-established discussion group dealing with Slavic & East European language & literature.
Political Science
- Chronology of Russian History
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono.html
This page dates the major (and some not so major) events
in Russian history and links them with explanatory and related materials on the Web. Created at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD
- Moscow Public Science Foundation (MONF) (Moscow)
http://www.mpsf.org/
Originally founded in 1991, the Moskovskii obshchestvennyi nauchnyi fond is supported by various international organizations. Located at Ulitsa Iaroslavskaia 17, MONF has a number of goals including the "support and organization of scientific investigation in the area of economics, politics, law, sociology and history." This includes an active publications program.
- OMRI Daily Digest
http://www.omri.cz/Publications/DD/Index.html
The Open Media Research Institute's Daily Digest (formerly RFE/RL Daily Report) has ceased publication. However, it is still possible to search the Daily Digest's back issues for the period January 2, 1995-March 28, 1997--and well worth doing, for its coverage of news events in Central & Eastern Europe (as well as Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia) was invaluable.
- RFE/RL Newsline
http://www.rferl.org/newsline
This daily report provides expert analysis on major political events and trends in the former USSR (including the Central Asian republics) and Afthanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The serice features daily news headline reports, twelve weekly reports on the region, and country-specific reports. Reports are available in the region's languages and in English; with archives dating back to 2000. The site's main page is found at www.rferl.org.
- Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research (VCIOM)
http://www.wciom.ru/
"The Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research (Vserossiiskii tsentr izucheniia obshchestvennogo mneniia/VCIOM) is the largest organization in Russia conducting marketing, social and political research on the basis of regular mass surveys in Russia, CIS and the Baltic States since 1987. Thirty VCIOM regional branch offices and more than 3500 trained interviewers are involved in carrying out various research programs. VCIOM has been accumulating unique trends reflecting the dynamics of the society and market. VCIOM issues a number of special publications based on the collected data."
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