Information Sources for Eastern European Studies: Web Sites

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General Resources

Central Europe online

Central Europe online is the news and information site published by European Internet Network. It delivers the latest Headline News, Business and Finance, Travel Special Reports and Discussion Boards from Central European countries.

Currency Converter

Try this useful tool if you want to find out how many Russian Rubles there are to the US Dollar.

Directory of Internet Resources

Directory of Internet Resources on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia prepared by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London.

Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive : European History

Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive includes articles and links to web sites on history of European States.

European Political Resources

Links to online political resources of European countries.

Trasitions online

Trasitions online a not-for-profit Internet magazine covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union.

Baltic

Eesti (English version):

The Estonian State Chancellery portal. Estonian version and Russian version also available.

Estonica: Encyclopedia about Estonia

The information contained in Estonica is organized by major topics: Estonia in Brief, History, Culture, Education and Science, State, Economy, Society, and Nature.

Estonia in Your Pocket

This is an online travel guide with short information on demography, history and language.

Estonian Institute

Maintaned by Estonian Institute. General information about Estonia, culture, history, society, economy, and nature can be found on this site.

Institute for Baltic studies

"The Institute of Baltic Studies, having one of the oldest web sites in Estonia, has provided digital information on the Baltic cultures and societies since 1994. It acts both as the cataloguing and filtering system for the most valuable information available, and a source for cultural and social information."

Polish

The Official Website of Poland

Wirtualna Polska

Search engine Wirtualna Polska

Russian Federation

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Reference Resources

APORT

A web search engine that finds web pages with Russian content based on queries in English or Russian and then optionally translates the retrieved documents into English.

Centre for Russian Studies database

Resources are organized by chronology of events, ethnic groups, administrative units, institutions, persons, political groups and parties, Russia's democratic landscape, presedential elections, referenda and state duma elections.

Dal' Dictionary Online

Dal' Dictionary Online is not available on weekends.

Russian Biographical Dictionary Online

This dictionary includes 15,000 biographies.

Russia on the WEB

This web site is supported by The Transnational Institute, a network of Russian, American and West European organizations. It provides links to Russian Internet Resources about education, philosophy, information and news, business, economics, history, religion, language, literature, society, politics, culture and art.

Archives

Russian State Archives - ArcheoBiblioBase

Russian State Archives ia a directory and bibliographic guide to holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)

Revelations from the Russian Archives is a digital exhibition of materials from archives that had been key working files of the Communist rulers until August 1991: the archives of the Central Committee, the Presidential archive, and the KGB.

Soviet Archives

"A majority of documents presented in collection of "Soviet Archives" are documents (of Politburo, of the Secretariat of Communist Party, and others), they were sealed by Yeltsin: each for a period of 30 years from the date of origination."

Art

History of Russian Art

History of Russian Art web site was organized by Bucknell University.

Museums of Russia

History

Cold War International History Project

"The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world."

Illustrated History of Russsia and the Former USSR

"This page compiles pictures pertaining to Russian historical heritage and photos witnessing recent events in Russia. However, you can find also an illustrated description of main periods in the history of Moscow, a brief introduction into the early history of the Russian Orthodox Church with more detailed collection of historical resources."

Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)

IWPR's network of leading correspondents provides in-depth analysis of events and issues throughout Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgzstan, Serbia, and Balkan region. Reports are produced biweekly.

Russian History

Russian History directory of Internet resources was prepared by Bucknell University.

Russian History (in Russian)

Russian History on the Web

Russian History on the Web provides a critical guide to web resource relating to Russian history.

Literature

Russian Literature (Bucknell University)

Russian Literature - Internet Resources (Hokkaido University)

Russian writers (Hokkudai University)

Database of short biographies of modern Russian writers and bibliographies of their works.

Politics

Demographics: Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Norwegian Institute of Internal Affairs

Center for Russian studies at the Norwegian Institute of Internal Affairs maintains a comprehensive database about chronology of events, institutions, persons, political parties, etc. in Russian Federation

Russian Law

Russian Politics - Internet Resources

Russian Politics - Internet Resources site was prepared by Hokkudai University.

Structure of the Russian Government (1991-1998)

Vsia vlast' na WWW (=Government on WWW)

Very good collection of links to Russian political net resources divided into some categories, such as regional links, political parties, government etc.

Press

In Russian

Zhurnal'nyi Zal (Journal Hall)

In English

Newspapers and Magazines From and About Russia

St. Petersburg Times

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Tatar

Links to Turkic Republics and Communities (including Tatarstan)

Links to newspapers and historical sites

National Library of Tatarstan

Republic of Tatarstan

This is the official web site of Republic of Tatarstan. At this portal you will find links to business, economy, society, who is who, law documents and other major Tatarstan sites.

Tatarstan on the Internet

Links to web sites on politics, economics, history, culture, education, religion, science.

Tatarstan President's personal web site

Tatarstan - Internet Resources (prepared by Hokkudai University)

Internet resources are organized by the folowing categories: general, news, politics, law, economy, history, religion, Volga-Ural Tatars, language, culture, geography, travel, and Volga region.

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