Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies: Websites

Extensive listing of websites about Russia and Eastern Europe with very useful annotations. You can browse through sites by subject or search. It is from the University of Pittsburg.

Search the catalog of the country's oldest state library, with a collection of over 32.8 million items. "One of the world's largest libraries, it posseses the most complete collection of publications in Russian." There are many online exhibitions as well.

Spectacular site containing full text of important Russian literary journals, such as Arion, Novyi mir, Druzhba narodov, Znamia, Inostrannaia literatura, Novaia iunost', and Oktiabr'. Each journal has an archive usually going back to the mid-nineties.

Type on a Latin keyboard and have the text appear in Cyrillic. You can use this as text to copy and paste into the dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Bilingual database of deaths and disappearances of journalists in Russia. Search criteria include motive, incident, federal district, year of death, surname, job, and impunity. Results vary in detail and in some cases include photographs, multiple articles and other important information.

Possible translations of Russian abbreviations

Watch complete Russian films by Mosfilm on YouTube