These are useful starting points for news and research. If you find a broken link, or would like to recommend a site, please let us know.

Archives and Research [Back to top]

• Cold War International History Project
• Russian Archives (also in English)

Art, Music, Culture, and Cinema [Back to top]

• 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
• 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 [Back to top]

• Ardis Books
• Esterum
• Kniga
• Slavic Review

Computers in Russian [Back to top]

• Apple Russia
• Microsoft Russia
• Russifying your computer - Fonts and keyboard drivers for Mac & Windows
• Russifying your Mac

Conservation and Use of Natural Resources [Back to top]

• 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 [Back to top]

• 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 [Back to top]

• 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 [Back to top]

• 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 [Back to top]

• 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 Page - his life, texts and cultural background
• Russian fiction and poetry
• Russian literature and folklore - (also in English)
• Soviet Literature
• Zembla - Nabokov site

Maps [Back to top]

• 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 [Back to top]

• 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 [Back to top]

• 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

Search Engines and Portals [Back to top]

• Aport.ru
• Google.ru
• Holms.ru
• KM.ru
• List.ru
• Rambler
• ROPnet
• Russia Online
• Russia on the Net (in English)
• Ru.Yahoo
• Yandex
• Wikipedia in Russian

After you have completely exhausted those sites, then you can visit this one.