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Russian Links
Below are a set of links to a variety of Russian-related internet sites. Please let us know about any links that you think should also be displayed here or your experiences with these sites. E-mail Prof. Charlotte Rosenthal at: crosenth@usm.maine.edu.
www.seelrc.org
A huge site run jointly by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Contains an essay “Why Study Russian?”; photos and virtual reality galleries of St. Petersburg and Mosocw; language resource pages for all levels (Russian grammar explanations and exercises, Russian casebook, dictionaries, crossword puzzles, literary texts, culture--folklore, the Bible, art and icons, Russian literature, news sources, libraries, media, and a webliography developed by experts at the National Cryptologic School).
www.aatseel.org
This is the web site of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages. Information on job opportunities, fellowships and grants, internships, and a guide for job seekers. It also has “Why Study Russian?” and “Internet Resources.”
www.websher.net/guest1/index.html
A huge site with links to hundreds of Russian-related sites.
www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb
Funded by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and East European Studies, this is a directory of internet resources from and about the countries of Eurasia and Central and Eastern Europe.
www.ibiblio.org/sergei/Grandsons.html
www.uni.edu/becker/Russian2.html
Has lots of links to Russian and Slavic sites, including Russian language help.
www.deparments.bucknell.edu/russian/
Site includes the Russian national anthem, links to culture, history, the media, society, weather in Russia, and information on jobs.
www.und.nodak.edu/dept/lang/russian/links.html
Ralph Koprince’s Russian Resources, Many different Russian links.
www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/
Website of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies which includes, among other information, articles on current events and announcements of lectures, performances, etc. at the Center and elsewhere to which the public is invited.
www.uznay-prezidenta.ru
A fun Website for children sponsored by President Putin.
(Only works on PC's)
www.LMP.UCLA.edu
A site dealing with 120 languages, including Russian. There is a “profile” of each language. Has web-based materials, authentic materials, and “traditional” teaching materials such as textbooks, dictionaries, and grammars.
www.aatseel.org
Links to numerous on-line study aids, grammar drills, etc.
www.seelrc.org
See description in first section.
www.websher.net/yale/rl/trends
The collection refers to a variety of spheres of post-Soviet Russian culture: literature, history, cinema, television, radio, theater, politics, religion, etc. and includes actual texts culled from the Internet, mostly in Russian, and includes 18 audio programs (with full text transcriptions) from RFE/RL’s Russian Service and several video lectures by Chulaki.
http://russianmentor.net/
For intermediate and advanced-level Russian students. Requires Java Script and Netscape. Excellent and enjoyable site with helpful language and culture modules.
www.yandex.ru
www.rambler.ru
www.kulichki.com/
www.google.ru
www.worldstudy.gov/
Read about Matt Cox, an economics major who also studied Russian.
www.american .edu/research/CCPCR
Has a “Jobs/CareerPath List.” This list provides a national database of actual jobs and career paths (including further study in graduate school) taken by degree program graduates.
www.baikal.eastsib.ru/gbt_irkutsk/Volunteer_List.html
The Irkutsk Office of the Great Baikal Trail Association has created a new site titled “Volunteer Opportunities in Russia and the NIS,” which lists organizations in Russia and the NIS with possible volunteer opportunities.
See also aatseel and Bucknell sites listed above.
www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/
Website contains an illustrated history or Russia from the University of Toronto, a timeline of Russian history, and links to sites about art, ballet, museums, tourism, the Library of Congress, and the Orthodox Church in America.
www.metro.ru
a great site for exploring the Moscow subway system, with fine photographs of every station
www.vvcentre.ru
the site of the Moscow exhibition and amusement park which used to be known as VDNKh and is now called VVTs or the All-Russian Exhibition Center. It has various pavilions such as “Kultura,” one of the best places to buy souvenirs, the Armenian pavilion (No. 68), where you can taste excellent cognac and ethnic cuisine, and a pavilion devoted to breeds of horses used in sports.
http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/index.html
Bilingual anthology of Russian poetry, including biographical sketches of the poets and sound files of natives speakers reciting many of the poems.
www.conradish.ent
Numerous literary texts in Russian with helpful reading aids for students of Russian. Words can be “clicked” to get a definition in English.
www.feb-web.ru
In Russian and English, Has texts by Russian authors including Pushkin and Tolstoy and several encyclopedias.
www.hermitagemuseum.org/
Hermitage museum
www.yasnayapolyana.ru
Site of Tolstoy’s estate museum.
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www.eplovision.ru
www.amavi.com.us/works_video.htm
www.aress.ru/index.phtml
www.audioforce.ru/index.htm
www.toplinefx.com/index.htm
www.m-f.ru
www.gkdes.narod.ru
www.dtvma.ru/
www.onyx-group.ru
www.bolshoi.ru
Site of the Bolshoi Ballet.
www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Russian/russlinkx.html#Cinema
From the Univeristy of Bristol, a site with an online journal Kinokultura about new Russian cinema and a movie database.
www.nashekino.ru
On-line film encyclopedia.
www.museikino.ru
A large site about the Moscow Cinema Museum, with an account of its manuscript holdings, library facilities, and exhibitions.
www.film.ru
Large site with lots of links, film reviews, news. Favors foreign films, especially from Hollywood.
www.miff.ru
Program of the Moscow International Film Festival.
www.ntvprofit.ru
Best site for news of the latest Russian films. Its archive goes back to 1997.
www.kinoism.ru
Russian only, insights into films Russians themselves watch (usually Hollywood blockbusters), with news of recent films and starts.
www.kinoart.ru
Site of the journal Iskusstvo kino (Cinema Art).
http://russianinternet.com/radio/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/Russian/programmes/default.stm
www.izvestia.ru/
Former government paper is now independent.
www.kommersant.ru/
Many consider this newspaper the best one to read today.
www.aif.ru/
Site of the newspaper “Argumenty I fakty.”
www.lgz.ru/lgz
Site of “Literaturnaia gazeta,” a weekly newspaper which focuses on literature and the arts as well as politics. The USM Glickman Library receives this paper in hard copy.
www.ogoniok.com/win/index.shtml
A lively magazine aimed at a general readership.
www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/01.html
Lively daily paper aimed at the English-speaking population of Moscow.
www.sptimes.ru/
Lively daily paper aimed at the English-speaking population of St. Petersburg.
www.cdi.org/russia/
Website of the Center for Defense Information’s (Washington, D.C.) daily and weekly compendium of news about Russia from sources around the world. Concentrates on political and economic news. You can subscribe to this free e-mail report. Go to the general website, www.cdi.org/ and click on “Johnson’s Russia List,” then on “subscribe” button at the top righthand side. Or e-mail a message to djohnson@cdi.org.
www.russiannewsroom.com
Russian news room provides news coverage of recent events, business news, news about politics, sports, immigration in Russia and other CIS countries.
www.gismeteo.ru/towns/27612.htm
Select a city and find out the weather for the day, for the next 3-10 days.
www.languagepolicy.org
The website of the Joint National Committee for Languages and National Council for Languages and International Studies (JNCL-NCLIS). Has a summary of a report by the General Accounting Office on the lack of language expertise in federal agencies and the text of a recent speech of Secvretary of Education Rod Paige on priorities for international education (including language training).
www.arkhangelsk.org
Website of the Archangel Committee, the Russian Sister City Committee of Greater Portland.
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