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We designed this section to provide links to sites such as AAASS and AATSEEL, to name only two that are crucial to academic research in the fields of Russian, East European and Eurasian studies. Of course, we couldn't stop there and continued expanding the links to include other academic and nonacademic sites. The list below is an attempt to organize the links according to category. Suggestions for additional links are welcomed at russian@sfsu.edu.
Online
Russian /Slavic Bookstores and Publishing Houses
Electronic
Multimedia and Video Resources
Online
Libraries,Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Gateways to
Other Databases
Area Studies Resources
Visual and Performing
Arts
Business
and Economics
Gender and Women’s
Studies
Literature
and Linguistics
Media
Human Rights
Ecology and Enviroment
General
Interest and Humor
Online Russian /Slavic Bookstores and Publishing Houses
ETS Publishing House. Electronic, technical, traditional
dictionaries and encyclopedias and more.
Web: http://www.ets.ru
Gordon
and Breach Publishers.
Web: http://www.gbhap.com
Kniga.com
Web: http://www.kniga.com
Ruskniga.com.
Web: http:///www.ruskniga.com
Schoenhof's Foreign
Books.
Web: http://www.schoenhofs.com
E-mail: info@schoenhofs.com
Slavica.
Web: http://www.slavica.com
E-mail:
slavica@indiana.edu
Victor Kamkin Books.
Web: http://www.kamkin.com
Electronic Multimedia and Video Resources
Alta Vista Search Engine:
Enter simple queries like "Russian Language Web Sites".
Web: http://www.altavista.com/
CALICO (Computer Assisted
Language Instruction Consortium)
Southwest Texas State University.
Web: http://calico.org
Fingertip Software.
Web: http://www.cyrillic.com
E-mail:
info@cyrillic.com or sales@cyrillic.com
Hyper Archive by MIT
Laboratory for Computer Science.
Web: http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html
KOI8-R Preferences (Russian
Net Character Set).
Web: http://koi8.pp.ru
Lexicon Bridge Publishers.
Multimedia for students of Russian. Software: fonts, electronic dictionaries,
translation systems, educational software, electronic encyclopedia, spell check,
etc.
Web: http://www.Lexicon
Bridge.com
E-mail: LBPInfo@LexiconBridge.com
Multilingual Computing,
Inc.
Web: http://www.multilingual.com/volume1.html
E-mail: info@multilingual.com
Music/ Video Store Online.
Web: http://www.rbcmp3.com/store/
RopNet Main Page.
Includes fonts KOI8 and Win.
Web: http://www.ropnet.ru/koi8/
Russification of Macintosh.
Web: http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/
Smart Link Corporation.
Web: http://www.smartlinkcorp.com
Tovarishch X (Comrade
X). A free software designed to improve and develop comprehension skills
for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students studying Russian by using clips from
Russian radio stations and television channel ORT-1.
Web: http://www.colby.edu/russian/
Transparent Language Website. Includes a great CD reading program.
Web: http://www.transparent.com
You can access additional sites via AATSEEL.
Online Libraries, Bibliographies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Maxim Moshkow's Online
Library in text format (contains many useful resources) -
highly recommended:
Web: http://www.lib.ru
American Bibliography
of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES Online) is available at no charge
via the Internet. It is the source of citations for
journal articles, government and research reports and books published in the
US and Canada.
E-mail: absees@uxl.cso.uiuc.edu
Tel:
(217) 244-3899
ETS Publishing House. Weekly updating dictionary of new Russian words
and usage and German-Russian dictionary (with new lexicon).
Web: http://www.ets.ru/livelang/home.htm
The Library of Congress home page. Links to their extensive Russian
collection.
Web: http://www.loc.gov
MLA (Modern
Languages Association).
Web: http://www.mla.org
Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body.
Web: http://russian.dmll.cornell.edu/russian.web/material/index.htm
Travlang Translating Dictionaries. The site also includes worldwide
hotels, currency exchange rates, links to other language pages and more.
Web: http://www.travlang.com
The WWW Virtual Library: REESWeb. A comprehensive index of electronic
resources about the Balkans, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, Central Asia,
Central Europe, the CIS, Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and
the former Soviet Union.
Web: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/
Post-Soviet East European and Eurasian Studies Centers below provide extensive databases in political science, international relations, economics, literature and linguistics, history, visual and performing arts, "hard" sciences, press, etc.
American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
Information Database for the Member States of the United Nations.
Web: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
Middlebury.
Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~russian/index.htm
Russnet.
Web: http://www.russnet.org/
Slavic and East European
Home Page by U.C. Berkeley.
Web: http://library.berkeley.edu/Collections/Slavic/
Slavophilia.
Web: http://www.slavophilia.com/
University of Toronto.
Up to date information about Russia and the Former USSR and an illustrated history
of Russia.
Web: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mes/russia.html
International Relations, Political Science, History, Economics, Business, etc.
American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
E-mail: aaass@hcs.harvard.edu
American Historical Association (AHA).
Web: http://www.theaha.org/
American Political Science Association (APSA).
Web: http://www.apsanet.org/
American Sociaological Association (ASA).
The Center for Slavic
and East European Studies at Berkeley.
Web: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~csees/
Web: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~bsp/
The Jamestown Foundation.
Web:
http://www.jamestown.org
Maps of Russian and
the Former Soviet Rupublics.
Web: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth.html
Moscow State University.
Web: http://www.msu.ru
Slavic and Baltic Resources. A web-page by the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
Web: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/slavic.html
United Nations Web-page.
Web: http://www.un.org
VladNews Homepage. A homepage of a weekly newpaper of the Pacific Rim
city in Russia, Vladivostok. English and Russian versions available.
Web: http://www.vladnews.ru
The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre.
Web: http://www.bolshoi.ru
Cinema Quest.
Web: http://www.hal-pc.org/~questers/index.html
Folk Art Page. Picture
gallery and souvenirs.
Web: http://users.snip.net/~cheb/
From Russia with Art.
A page with information on contemporary Russian music, fine arts, fashion and
more.
Web: http://www.artinfo.ru
Gordon and Breach Publishers.
Web: http://www.gbhap.com
Hermitage. World-famous
museum in St. Petersburg.
Web: http://www.hermitage.ru
Index of Russian Art. Many classic Russian paintings.
Web: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/index.html
Little Russia in US.
Pages dedicated to Russian art, music, literature, children's stories, jokes,
and cooking.
Web: http://russia-in-us.com
Moscow Theatre Page.
Web: http://www.theatre.ru:8082/emain.html
Russian Film Resources.
Web: http://www.facets.org
Russian Painting. History
of Russian painting with color samples and artists’ autobiographies.
Web: http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/ruspaint.html
Tarkovsky. A page
on one of the most talanted Russian film directors Andrey Tarkovsky.
Web: http://skywalking.com/tarkovsky/
American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
E-mail: aaass@hcs.harvard.edu
Corporate Watch.
Web: http://www.corpwatch.org/
Pangaea Partners.
Web: http://www.pangaeapartners.com
Samples of Business Correspondence.
Web: http://www.ets.ru/
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Available in English,
Russian and French.
Web: http://www.unece.org/
Women in Russia and other post-communist states. Academic resources and bibliographies, archeology, art, literature, daily life, conferences.
Feminist News Online.
Web: http://www.feminist.org/
Gays in Russia.
Web: http://www.vmt.com/gayrussia/
International Women's
Studies Institute.
Address: P.O. Box 1067, Palo Alto, CA 94302
Webgirls International.
On-line technical worshops, discussion groups, referrals for job and housing.
Web: http://www.webgrrls.com
American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).
Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
E-mail: aaass@hcs.harvard.edu
AATSEEL.
Web: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel
John Hopkins University.
Web: http://www.jhu.edu
MLA (Modern Languages
Association).
Web: http://www.mla.org/
Orenburg Historico-Literary Encyclopedias (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Shevchenko).
Web: http://www.orenburg.ru/culture/
Pushkin. Literary journal.
Web: http://russ.ru/pushkin
Russian Publishing House. Bookstore online.
Web: http://www.russianthings.com
Newspapers, journals, magazines and radio online.
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES).
Web: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/absees/
BBC World Service. Russian news briefs that you can read and listen
to.
Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/world/default.htm
COMFM.COM. Links to Russian radio and television.
Web: http://www.comfm.com.
ITAR-TASS.
Web: http://www.itar-tass.com
Izvestia. National
and international news in Russian.
Web: http://www.online.ru/mlists/izvestia/izvestia-izvestia/
Lenta-Ru. A free site with current Russian and international news added
every hour.
Web: http://www.lenta.ru
The Moscow Times (in
English).
Web: http://www.moscowtimes.ru/
National News Service-NNS.
Web: http://www.nns.ru
News Service by United Humanitarian Publishing House. A full-service
provider of information about current events. Russian and English versions available.
Web: http://www.polit.ru
Ogonyok. Russian
popular magazine in Russian. You need IBM or KIO8 or Mac Cyrillic Keyboard set-ups.
Web: http://www.ropnet.ru/ogonyok/
RFE-RL Newsline on-line
issues.
Web: http://www.rferl.org/newsline/
Russia Today. Russian
news in English.
Web: http://www.russiatoday.com.
SCOLA. Non-profit
educational organization providing connections to international programs via
sattelite and streaming video.
Web: http://www.scola.org.
The Slavic Review. The American Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East
European Studies.
Web: http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~slavrev/
St. Petersburg Times
in English. News, business, arts, job opportunities, archive search, independent
media.
Web: http://www.times.spb.ru
VladNews Homepage. A homepage of a weekly newspaper of the Pacific Rim
city in Russia, Vladivostok. Russian and English versions available.
Web: http://www.vladnews.ru
Washington Post Former
Soviet-Union Page.
Web: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/exussr.htm
Human Rights Watch. Available in Russian.
Web: http://www.hrw.org/
Green Net.
Web: http://www.gn.apc.org/
Blue Squirrel. An educational web-site designed for educators
of children at school and home.
Web: http://education.bluesquirrel.com
DazhdbogÕs
Grandchildren. News, humor, music, electronic exhibitions, etc.
Web: http://metalab.unc.edu/sergei/Grandsons.html
Folk Art Page. Picture
gallery and souvenirs.
Web: http://users.snip.net/~cheb/
Friends and Partners.
Web: http://www.friends-partners.org
Glasnet Gate to Russia.
Internet service provider based in Russia provides list of services, links to
native Russian search engines, Russian media.
Web: http://www.glasnet.ru
Hostels in Russia. Low-cost
lodging for students who are travelling throughout Russia.
Web: http://www.spb.ru/ryh/
Lanck Computers and
Telecommunications. A live camera from SPB pointing at a street scene on
the Moika Canal in St. Petersburg. Other cameras also available.
Web: http://www.lanck.com/camera/livecam.htm
Traveller's Yellow Pages.
Web: http://www.infoservices.com
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