Basic facts about the region

• Background Notes: Europe and the New Independent States (a directory of country profiles from the US Department of State)
• The world Factbook, a CIA database of country profiles
• The Library of Congress country studies

• Portals to the World (links to electronic resources from around the world; by the Library of Congress; organized by country)
• Yahoo -- Countries
• Global Metric Time Service
• REESweb : WWW virtual library index of electronic resources on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
• Internet Resources for CEE Studies (by Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University)

• 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 with a fosuc on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
• Kakanien revisited (a networking project for interdisciplinary research in the field of Central and Eastern European studies; supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and the University of Vienna; in German with multi-linguial introduction)

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

• AAASS
• Slavic Review  (the membership journal of the American  Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; besides scholarly articles contains numerous reviews of new books on Slavic studies; has an online index)
• ALA
• AATIA
• AATSEEL
• The American Councils for International Education (ACTR, ACCELS) (a not for profit education, training, and consulting organization, specializing in the countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia)
• The Eurasia Foundation
• Open Society -- Soros Foundation
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Russian and Eurasian Program
• ICRC and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent (the web site contains maps, facts and figures, reports, news releases and publications on the countries)
• East-West Institute (an independent nonprofit organization for geopolitical stability, democracy, free enterprise and prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and other states of Eurasia)

Communications (incl. computer and Internet issues)

• Internet Access Providers Meta-List (a world-wide directory)
• Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Access in Central and Eastern Europe (a report by the Center for Democracy and Technology; with charts and country details)

Culture, fine arts, entertainment

• Internet Movie Database (international database of films and filmmakers)
• Spoils of War : international newsletter (an online version of the newsletter on the problems of locating and restitution of works of art lost or stolen from various European countries during the World War II; in English or Russian)
• Lost Art Internet Database (the database offers search for cultural assets relocated and transported as a result of World War II and/or during the Nazi-period; in addition the site has a discussion forum; German, English or Russian)

Current events and media

• Transitions Online (news and analysis from local reporters in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union)
• Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Broadcast Services
• EurasiaNet.org (information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia; additional features include newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a discussion forum)
• MSNBC International News: Europe
• Yahoo! News and Media: Europe

Economy (incl. business and finances)

• Business-Europa
• Central Banks of the World

BISNIS: Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (the Department of Commerce's primary resource center  for U.S. companies exploring business opportunities in Russia and other Newly Independent States; contains the latest market reports and tips on developments, export and investment opportunities, and strategies for doing business in the NIS)
• IC2 Institute - The University of Texas at Austin
• SIGMA : Support for Improvement in Governance and Management in Central and Eastern European Countries (an OECD and the European Union's Phare Programme's project)
• Informest - Business, Opportunities and Services with East-European Countries, an Italian site
• EurasiaNet.org (information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia; additional features include newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a discussion forum)
• CEESource (legal, political, business and economics resources directory from the Gonzaga University School of Law)
• Informest - Business, Opportunities and Services with East-European Countries, (an Italian-language site, includes business guides to the countries of Central and eastern Europe)
• CCNM - The Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members (OECD)
• FinanceNet : public financial management worldwide (operated by the National Science Foundation)
• Index of Documents -- by: Petrus Johannes van de Waal-Palms
• International Trade Administration - U.S. Department of Commerce
• Internet Securities Database on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, The
• IRIS: Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector
• Money Abroad
• NIS Financial Market
• OECD Online - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• United States Industry Coalition (USIC), The
• US Agency for International Development, The
• Europe & Eurasia : regional profile by USAID
• Europe and Central Asia, by the World Bank
• Yale University Library Economic Growth Center Collection (Home Page)

Education

• Educational Advising Centers in the NIS (listed by the Center for Civil Society International)
• Foreign Student Immigration Issues
• College and University Home Pages - Geographical Listing (by country, compiled by Christina DeMello in 1996)

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

• Reference maps (from the CIA World Factbook)
• Maps of Europe (from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, the University of Texas at Austin; a comprehensive collection of maps)
• Maps of Asia (from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, the University of Texas at Austin; a comprehensive collection of maps)
• Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps (from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, the University of Texas at Austin; a comprehensive collection of maps)
• In Your Pocket City Guides (travel and information portal for Central and Eastern Europe; describes more that 50 cities of the region)
• Travel Tips, by Lonely Planet
• Subway Navigator
• Budget Travel
• MetaSubway, a page about the subways in the former USSR
• Currency Converter
• European Train List
• InfoHub Index
• MERCURIO: The European Railway Server
• Rec.Travel.Library
• Consular Information Sheets -- U.S. Department of State
• UK, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London -- Travel Advice
• World Clock

Government

• International Government Information (a collection of links created by the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin)
• Governments on the WWW (comprehensive database of governmental indtitutions)

Grants

• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) (provides grant opportunities for US scholars to conduct field research in CEE and the NIS)
• The Fulbright Program (the program, sponsored by the US government, provides grants for Graduate Students, Scholars and Professionals, and Teachers and Administrators from the U.S. and other countries)
• The American Councils for International Education (ACTR, ACCELS) (the programs include academic exchange, professional training, institution building, research, materials development, technical assistance, and consulting)
• Civic Education Project (CEP) (an INGO advancing higher education reform in the post-communist societies, focusing mainly on the social sciences)
• USAID-Sponsored Environmental Grants in Belarus, Central Asia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine
• The American Councils for International Education (ACTR, ACCELS) (a not for profit education, training, and consulting organization, specializing in the countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia)
• The Eurasia Foundation
• Open Society -- Soros Foundation
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Russian and Eurasian Program

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

• Okno.com : Okno Group's online resource center for environmental and health care policy in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
• European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (EURO)

History (incl. genealogy, etc.)

• National histories : Europe, from Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive
• World History Archives: History of Eastern Europe in General  (a directory of full text documents)
• Eastern Europe Since 1945 (a collection of documents; part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
• Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933 (Arnold Dreyblatt's historical biographical dictionary online; offers a number of searching possibilities)
• Communist Nations Since 1917 (a full text of a book by Anna Cienciala, professor, University of Kansas)
• A Select, Annotated Bibliography of English Language Works on the History of East Central Europe and the Balkans (by Anna Cienciala, professor, University of Kansas).
• Part I: to 1914
• Part II: From the Outbreak of the First World War to the End of the Second - 1914 Through 1945
• Russia and Eastern Europe Chronology (part of the WebChronology Project, a program of the History Department at North Park University; a series of hyperlinked chronologies developed by the instructors and historical articles prepared by students intended for use in history classes)
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Holocaust
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Language (incl. dictionaries)

• Language guides : a collection of web-based language guides, organized alphabetically; from Yamada Language Center (University of Oregon)
• Ethnologue Languages of the World Database
• SEELANGs (a web interface of the e-mail Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures discussion list)

Law

• World Justice Information Network
• International Constitutional Law (ICL) (the site provides English translations of and other textual material related to constitutional documents of different countries)
• Look Back At Nuremberg, A
• Publishers and copyright in Europe: a comparative survey (by Lynette Owen, prepared for the International Workshop on Legislation for the Book World, Warsaw, Poland 13 - 15 November 1996)
• CEESource (legal, political, business and economics resources directory from the Gonzaga University School of Law)

Libraries and archives

• Guides for research in Slavic and East European studies (a collection of guides to the reference literature, by UC Berkeley Library)
• Slavic & East European Information Resources (an academic journal covering Slavic and East European librarianship)
• Slavic and East European Library at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) (the site features the Slavic Virtual Reference Desk with live chat sessions with reference librarians from the Slavic Reference Service, as well as the Jagiellonian Library (Jagiellonian University) in Krakow, Poland, and the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, Russia; the service is free)
• Foreign Newspapers Currently Received at the Library of Congress
• World History Archives: History of Eastern Europe in General  (a directory of full text documents)
• The Burrow Library Eastern Europe Resources : list of internet resources developed at the Burrow library at Rhodes College (Memphis, TN)
• British Library Slavonic and East European Collections
• Open Society Archives at Central European University  (a research institution focusing on   Communism and the Cold War, particularly in  Central and Eastern Europe, in the period after World War II)
• Archives USA (from Chadwyck-Healey; a searceably database with access to holdings and contact information of more than 5,400 repositories. Indexes to over 117,000 special collections)
• Archive material from the FSU and Central and Eastern Europe in UK libraries (by the Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services)
• Libweb: European Libraries (a directory of libraries around the world, by Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
• Libweb: Asian Libraries (a directory of libraries around the world, by Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)

Literature (incl. books online, publishers and vendors)

• Literature Resource Center, from Gale group (a searchable online encyclopedia of world literature)
• Slavic Review  (the membership journal of the American  Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; besides scholarly articles contains numerous reviews of new books on Slavic studies; has an online index)
• Slavica Publishers (one of the leading U. S. publishers of scholarly books and textbooks on the languages, peoples, literatures, cultures and history of the former USSR and Eastern Europe)
• Slavic and East European Book Sources (a directory of publishers and vendors which specialize in books and other materials in Slavic and East European languages; compiled by Jeff Holdeman at Ohio State University)
• Book and Serial Vendors for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Results of a Survey of ARL Libraries (the survey was conducted by the American Library Association; the online directory includes a list of vendors by country, a master vendor list, a list of libraries responding to the questionnaire, and a list of vendors with general specialization in the area)
• SEELANGs (a web interface of the e-mail Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures discussion list)

People (biography)

• Lives, the Biography Resource (links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories, group biuographies, general resources,  and more)
• ABCNEWS.com: Newsmakers Subindex  (biography of the major players in today's world politics)
• Biographical Dictionary (over 27,000 entries, some very brief)
• Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933 (Arnold Dreyblatt's historical biographical dictionary online; offers a number of searching possibilities)

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

• International Government Information (from the General Libraries server at the University of Texas at Austin)
• OneWorld Online : a web server on political issues, developed by OneWorld International Foundation
• Contemporary Conflicts, by Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College
• EurasiaNet.org (information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia; additional features include newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a discussion forum)
• CEESource (legal, political, business and economics resources directory from the Gonzaga University School of Law)
• Articles by Dr. Sam Vaknin (the Author Archive of Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" - contains dozens of articles published in "Central Europe Review" regarding Russia, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe/Balkans)
• Center for Civil Society International
• Center for Security Studies and Conflict Resolution
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• The Electronic Embassy : a resource of and for the Washington, D. C. foreign embassy community
• Internet Points of Contact
• National Security Institute - Security Resource Net
• Kennan Institute, The
• Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy - ISCIP
• Post-Soviet Armies Newsletter (an online publication with news, essays, reports, references, sources, etc. on Armies within the CIS)

Religions

• Academic Info: Religion Gateway (a directory of internet resources for the academic study of religion)
• Religions of the World (an introduction to world religions)

Science and technology (incl. environmental issues)

• Okno.com : Okno Group's online resource center for environmental and health care policy in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
• The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (a foundation promoting cooperation among diverse environmental groups and interests in the region)

Society (incl. human rights, women issues, etc.)

• Network of East-West Women
• European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations
• AAASHRAN: AAAS Human Rights Action Network -- Listserv Information
• Comparative Study of  Youth Policies and Legislation of  States party to the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe (compiled by the Council of Europeês Youth Directorate)
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Holocaust
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Human Rights Watch - Helsinki
• International Freedom of Expression eXchange Clearinghouse - IFEX
• Simon Wiesenthal Center

• U. S. Census Bureau: Statistical Agencies (International) (a directory)
• World Jewish Population, 2000 (an article by Sergio DellaPergola contains statistics on the Jewish population in various regions and countries of the world)