Russia

Basic facts about Russia  Internet searching tools (search engines, internet guides, etc.) Area study centers     (teaching and research) Associations     (professional, non-governmental, international, local) Communications (includes Computer and Internet issues) Culture, fine arts, entertainment Current events and media Economics    (incl. business and finances) Education Geography and travel    (incl. cities, maps, transportation, etc.) Government  Grants Health and fitness    (incl. medicine, sports, etc.) History    (incl. genealogy, etc.) Language     (incl. dictionaries) Law Libraries and archives Literature    (incl. books online and book vendors) People     (biography) Philosophy Politics     (incl. international relations, military affairs and US policies) Religions Science and technology   (incl. environmental issues) Social science   (incl. human rights, women issues, etc.) Statistics

Basic country information

• U.S. Library of Congress Country Study - Russia (excellent starting point for learning about the country; includes facts-at-a-glance and sections on ethnicity, religion, and culture; early to modern history; geography, government, and the economy)
• Russia (although this page on About.com is officially named: "Geography and map of Russia", it in fact contains, besides geographical data, information on population, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues)
• The World Factbook - Russia, by CIA
• Infoplease - Russia

Internet searching tools (search engines, directories, etc.)

• REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies, Internet Resources (search by entering "Russia")
• The Russian Development Portal(an information server and search engine authored by the federal government in cooperation with the World Bank under the program "Electronic Russia;"  the portal has 27 different sections as well as powerful Russian- and English-language search engines)
• UTRO
• Yandex
• Krugosvet.Ru (an online version of the Russian traslation of the "Collier's Encyclopedia" with a link to the Russian WWW search of information on the topic following each article)
• Vavilon.ru
• Colossus: Search Engines of Russia
• Rambler search : Russia
• Friends and Partners
• Yahoo - Russia
• Russia on the Web : a project of The Transnational Institute, a network of Russian, American and West European organizations which have been sponsoring East-West exchange programs since 1981.

Area study centers (academic and research)

• Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies - The University of Texas at Austin
• Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, at the University of Texas at Austin
• Russia Central/Eastern Europe Study Programs, by Friends and Partners
• Russian Studies on the Web, on "Ruthenia" : a comprehensive directory of academic centers world-wide

Associations (professional, non-governmental, international, local)

• ASEEES : Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• AATSEEL : American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European languages
• UT Russian Club : a student organization
• Project Harmony : an organization whose goal is creating and nurturing personal relationships within and between communities in the United States and abroad through international exchange and training programs.
• Idealist : Action without borders (an online resource for nonprofit and community organizations and the people they serve)
• Memorial (International historical-enlightment, human rights and humanitarian society)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Moscow office)

Communications (includes Computers and Internet)

• Russify MS Windows
• Paratype (fonts, software, etc.)
• Cyrillic for MS Windows Netscape
• RIPN Network Information Centre xSU/RU : Russian Institute for Information Networks
• Russia Internet Access Provider List
• Relcom.Ru (established in 1998, one of the leading Internet service providers in Russia and the former USSR)
• Display Technologies in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by World Technology Evaluation Center
• Institution of Electrical Engineers: Eastern Europe - Centres in Development

• The Kremlin Museums
• The State Tretyakov Gallery
• The State Hermitage Museum
• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
• Russian Art & Culture
• The Russian Art Gallery

Economics (incl. business and finances)

• Russia: Export/Import(information on Russia's Foreign Trade)
• American Chamber of Commerce in Russia
• Center for International Private Enterprise
• Russian stock market news from NIKoil
• Advanced Guard of the Russian Economy An informative portal on industrial & business world of Russia. Added 15-Apr-04
• Construction Portal for Russia An overview of the construction market in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Retail Portal for Russia An overview of the retail and FMCG sector in Russia
• IT & Telecoms in Russia

Education

• Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation
• IREX in Russia (guide to IREX programs in Russia)
• Center for New Information Technologies in Education, The
• Federal University Computer Network of Russia RUNNet
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
• JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education

Geography and travel (incl. cities, maps, transportation, etc.)

• Russia and the Former Soviet Republics (from the Perry-Castaneda Library online Map Collection)
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: The University of Texas at Austin
• Lonely Planet World Guide: Destination Russia (an excellent source of information for travellers)
• Russian National Tourist Office (the official site)
• Moscow city government
• Chamber of commerce and industry of the Nizhny Novgorod region
• All Moscow (an internet city directory)
• Saint-Petersburg.ru : a web server of information on Saint Petersburg
• Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State
• Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. State Department (services for Americans abroad)
• Infinity Travel: a Russian-American travel management agency (the site includes on-line applications for Russian visa support and discounted reservations in Moscow and Petersburg Hotels)
• Traveller's Yellow Pages On-Line, a Russian-American directory
• St. Petersburg International Hostel
• Interknowledge: the Guide to Russia (Basic facts about Russian and it's major tourist attractions; travel tips)
• Russia phototrack: All Regions of Russia by Pictures (a site by RusPhoto; contains pictures and links related to different regions of Russia)
• Siberian Calendar (a site containing essays on the history and culture of Siberia; in Russian, English and Ukrainian)
• Vladimir, Russia (a team working with Serendipity-Russia is developing a tourism oriented English language web site for the City of Vladimir, Russia).
• Pallosovka - Canton of the Volga-German ASSR

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Government

• Government of the Russian Federation
• Russian Government Internet Network
• The Russian Development Portal(an information server and search engine authored by the federal government in cooperation with the World Bank under the program "Electronic Russia;"  the portal has 27 different sections as well as powerful Russian- and English-language search engines)

Grants

• Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (sponsors residential grant competitions, an active public lecture series, and a publication program)
• Economics Education and Research Consortium (Russia) (economic policy research network, focusing on grants, training and technical assistance to individual Russian researchers)

Health and fitness (incl. medicine, sports, etc.)

• Russian Medical Server (a Russian language server with news and information on all medical and health topics)
• Russian Olympic Committee
• Russian National Football Team

History (incl. genealogy, etc.)

• H-RUSSIA : a site devoted to Russian and Soviet history
• History of Russia (an outline)
• International Institute of Social History
• The International Contact Group for Research in Former Soviet Archives on Issues of Historical Political Economy (the site includes indexes of current research projects, working papers (a number available on-line in PDF format), and publications)
• Russian History Websites (a wonderfully illustrated collection of sites and online full-text books on the history of the Romanovs, Russian art and architecture)
• Medieval and Early Modern Russia and Ukraine (This page, developed by Daniel Waugh at the University of Washington, Seattle, provides links to resources for the teaching and learning of the early history of the areas, with the particular focus on the culture of the Orthodox East Slavs)
• Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov Web Site
• Meeting of Frontiers (a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library created at the Library of Congress; the site tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest)
• Novgorod: An Old City Forever New (and Re-newed) (an article by Daniel C. Waugh, University of Washington (Seattle); contains pictures of various landmarks of Novgorod)
• Novgorod resources (a list of resources about Novgorod with an emphasis on archaeology; compiled by Daniel C. Waugh, University of Washington (Seattle))

Language (incl. dictionaries and teaching)

Law

• Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (an official server)
• IP Menu Global Intellectual Property (Russian intellectual property information)
• ConsultantPlus (a legal information server; in English or Russian)

Libraries and archives

• Slavic and East European Studies, by Don Arthur : a description of the University of Texas Libraries collection
• Russian State Library (Moscow)
• National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg)
• Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
• Archives in Russia (the site is based on the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic database for dozens of Russian archives; includes a seach engine and descriptions of archives)
• Russian Archives Online (Russian archival collections of photographs and films, audio clips and transcripts, and searchable image catalogues)
• The Yale Russian Archive Project (YRAP) (a clearinghouse for information in order to facilitate access to the newly available documents in the archives of the former Soviet Union.)
• Russian/Soviet/Commonwealth of Independent States Collection(Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University)
• The International Contact Group for Research in Former Soviet Archives on Issues of Historical Political Economy (the site includes indexes of current research projects, working papers (a number available on-line in PDF format), and publications)

Literature (incl. books online, publishers and vendors)

People (biography)

• Rossiiskii "Kto est' kto" (Russian "Who is who") (a n informational and analytical server maintained by the Russian Biography Institute)
• Who's Who? in Russia

Philosophy

• Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences (the official site of the Institute provides access to a great number of resources for Russian and foreign philosophy)

Politics (incl. international relations, military affairs and US policies)

• Demokraticheskii Soiuz (an official site of the polical party; full-text works by V. Novodvorskaia))
• Demokraticheskii Vybor Rossii (an official site of the polical party)
• Dukhovnoe Nasledie (an official site of the political movement)
• KPRF (an official site of the polical party)
• LDPR (an official site of the polical party; full-text works by V. Zhirinovskii))
• Rossiia Molodaia ("Young Russia") (an official site of the political movement)
• Yabloko (an official site of the polical party)

Religions

• Islam in Russia (a site maintained by the Spiritual Council of the Muslem in Russia)
• Russian Orthodox Church(Outside Russia) (official web server)
• Russian Orthodox Religion
• The Bible (full text in Russian online)

Science and technology (incl. environmental issues)

• Russian Academy of Science (history, organizational structure, members, etc.)
• Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" (the first state national research Center of Russia, formerly - I.V.Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy)
• Guide to the History of Russian Science (An extensive collection of resources; includes bibliography of articles, course syllabuses, journals, professional associations etc.)
• NASA-Mir Cooperation Page
• Energy Russia (a site for the Center for Energy Policy - non-profit, non-government institute with information on energy efficiency in Russia and CIS: laws, metering and billing, research, projects, wind, finance, etc.)
• Russian Virtual GeoNetwork (RVGN) (a collection of information resources on geosciences in Russia and abroad; contains databases, software, electronic publications, the list of the nearest meetings, homepages of research institutes, etc.)
• Europe and Central Eurasia : minerals information, by U.S. Geological Survey
• Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Russia
• European Centre for Nature Conservation - ECNC
• The UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Zoos of Russia (a server about Russian zoos)

Social science (incl. human rights, women issues, etc.)

• WWW links on Aging in Russian Federation (a collection of links compiled by Dr. Cynthia Buckley, UT Austin, for the Conference: From Red to Gray: Aging in the Russian Federation)
• Russian Feminism Resources
• Bibliography for Women in Russia (a bibliography of books; organized by topic; from H-Russia site)
• Bibliography of Russian Women's Studies (1996) (from H-Russia site)
• Union of Councils for Soviet Jews - News related to Jews and human rights in the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union
• Beyond the Pale: the history of Jews in Russia (an in-depth, illustrated history of Jews in Russia")
• Memorial (International historical-enlightment, human rights and humanitarian society)

Statistics

• State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics (Goskomstat)
• Interstate Statistical Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (a series of nationally representative surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation)

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