Internet Resources
Archives and Research
Art, Music, Culture, and Cinema
- English Russia – “Something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth’s surface”
- From the Ends to the Beginning – A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse
- KinoKultura – Journal of Russian cinema
- Museum of Paper Architecture
- Onno van Rijen’s Soviet Composers
- Prokudin-Gorskii photo collection at the Library of Congress
- Russian Life magazine
- Seventeen Moments in Soviet History – Macalester-developed website
- Sokurov Island: Alexander Sokurov’s official website
- Soviet Music – Online songs and lyrics from the Soviet period
- Stalinka – Digital library of Staliniana
- State Hermitage Museum
- Russian music (streaming audio)
- World Museums, Russia – Index of Russian museums
Bookstores/Publishers
Computers in Russian
- Apple Russia
- Microsoft Russia
- Russifying your computer – Fonts and keyboard drivers for Mac & Windows
- Russifying your Mac
Conservation and Use of Natural Resources
- World Wildlife Fund Russia
- Russian nature photography by Igor Shpilenok
- Wild Russia
- Biodiversity Conservation Center
- Russian Conservation News
- Biodat
- Ecologia
- Baikal Watch
- Civil Society International
- Great Baikal Trail
- Initiative for Social Action and Renewal
- Pacific Environment
- Greenpeace.ru
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Moscow State University Herbarium
- Ministry of Natural Resources
- Taiga Rescue Network
Government and Government Agencies
- The Central Bank
- Commission on Securities and the Capital Market
- Constitutional Court
- The Constitution of the Russian Federation
- Council of Federation
- Federal Land Cadastre Service of Russia
- Federal Institute of Industrial Property
- Federal Notary Chamber
- Federal Security Service
- Government of the Russian Federation
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry for Atomic Energy
- Ministry of Communications and Information
- Ministry of Culture
- Ministry of Defense
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Health*
- Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology*
- Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom
- Ministry of Justice
- Ministry of Taxation
- Ministry of Transportation
- National Tourist Office
- President of the Russian Federation
- Security Council
- State Committee on Standardization and Metrology
- State Committee on Statistics
- State Duma of the Federal Assembly
- State Land Committee
- The Supreme Court
- Television and Radio Broadcasting Company
Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations
- All-Russian Public Movement “For Human Rights”
- Ametistov Foundation Project “Terra Legis”
- Amnesty International
- Center for Assistance to Victims of Violence and Human Trafficking
- Central-Chernozyom Human Rights Research Center
- Civil Commission of Human Rights
- Club “Advocate for Human Rights”
- The Committee for Protection Human Rights in Tatarstan
- Consortium of Women’s Nongovernmental Associations
- The Eurasia Foundation Moscow Regional Office
- Forum for Refugees
- Fund on Protection Women and Children
- Glasnost Defense Foundation
- Human Rights International
- Human Rights Interregional Center
- Human Rights in Russia
- Human Rights Situation in Moscow
- Human Rights Watch (Russian Page)
- International Labour Organization
- Inter-regional Human Rights Center
- Irkutsk Memorial
- Lipetsk Human Rights Society
- MacArthur Foundation in Moscow
- Memorial
- The Moscow Helsinki Group
- Moscow Libertarium
- Moscow Center for Prison Reform
- Moscow School of Human Rights
- Nizhnii Novgorod Human Rights Organization
- Non-governmental Charitable Sexual Assault Recovery Center “Sisters”
- Perm’s Regional Center of Advocates for Human Rights
- Public Committee for Helping Refugees “Civic Assistance”
- Refugee Assistance Organization “Hope”
- Russian Human Rights Association “Fathers and Children”
- Russian Human Rights Resource Center
- Rights of the Disabled in Russia
- Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights
- Tomsk Research Center for Human Rights
- UNICEF Russia
- United Nations Refugee Agency
Indices
- Friends and Partners
- Intute’s database of Russian resources – With useful site descriptions
- REES-Web – Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library
- Sher’s Russian Index
- Ukrainian Gateway
- Yale University Library – A comprehensive list of Slavic Studies resources
Literature
- Boris Akunin – Official website
- Electronic Library of Classics – collection of e-texts
- Nabokov Online Journal
- Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review) – Current literary scene
- The Pushkin Review – Published by the North American Pushkin Society
- The Pushkin Page – his life, texts and cultural background
- Russian fiction and poetry
- Russian literature and folklore – (also in English)
- Soviet Literature
- Zembla – Nabokov site
Maps
- Bell Library at the U of M – Early Russian Maps (1452-1794)
- Historical Maps of Russia and the Ukraine from 16-19th centuries
- Medieval Maps of Baltic Lands and Russia (10-17th centuries)
- UT Austin Online Library of Maps – Russia and CIS
News Sources
- Argumenty i fakty
- BBC Russian Service
- Delovoi Peterburg
- The eXile – Moscow alternative publication (employing Mac grads)
- Gazeta.ru
- Izvestia
- Johnson’s Russia List
- Komsomol’skaia gazeta
- Maximov News Service (also available in English)
- Moscow Times
- Moskovskie novosti
- National News Service
- Nezavisimaia gazeta
- NIS Observed: an Analytical Review
- NTV
- Strana.ru
- Pravda
- Radio-Locator – Listing of online radio stations
- Relis Online
- Rossiiskaia gazeta
- Russia News Service
- Russian radio, television, and newspapers
- Russian Periodicals Online
- Russia Today
- Saint Petersburg Times
- Transitions Online – Covering post-communist Europe and the former USSR
- U.S. State Department – Information about U.S. foreign policy
- Vesti
- Voice of America – audio and video broadcast
Reference Books
- Babelfish – Use with caution
- Dictionary of Idioms
- Online English-Russian-English Dictionary
- Megabook – Integrated access to Russian dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Multitran Online Dictionary
- Rambler dictionary
- Yandex encyclopedia