Country Profiles: Russia

Russian Federation -- Rossiyskaya Federatsiya

Government-Sponsored Resources and Diplomatic Information

• Russia Country Page Library of Congress
• Statistics on Russia: CIA World Factbook
• U.S. Embassy in Moscow
• Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington, D.C.
• Official Goverment Site of the Russian Federation

International Organizations and Development Programs:

• U.N. Mission of the Russian Federation Country page contains U.N. related info, as well as other links about the country
• World Bank: Europe and Central Asia regional page
• USAID Russian Federation Country Page Information about Russia and USAID programs
• Russia and the IMF The IMF's Russia Country Page with links to articles
• The Eurasia Foundation in Russia
• Soros National Foundations
• Human Rights Watch: Russia and Chechnya Monitors human rights in Russia and Chechnya
• SOVA Center Monitors racism, nationalism, xenophobia, and religious intolerance in the Russian Federation
• Memorial International Historical-Enlightenment Human Rights Society
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting Covers Human Rights in the Caucasus

Internet Resources: General

• Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Slavic and East European Library at the University of Illinois; includes a guide to internet resources and access to their excellent Slavic Reference Service
• Reenic Excellent collection of internet resources about Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Newly Independent States
• Reesweb The best collection of internet resources about Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
• Russia Page of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University
• Turkic Republics and Communities (Altai, Bashkiria, Chuvashya, Daghestan, etc.)
• SovInformBuro contains various links on travel, politics, culture, the arts, technology and general web resources
• Slavic-Eurasian Studies Web Directory sponsored by the Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center, Japan
• Travel Information Travel to Russia with the Lonely Planet

Internet Resources: Culture, Literature and the Arts

• Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit This is a hyper-media exhibit featuring two parts: the first illustrates domestic and foreign Soviet policy, and the second is dedicated to Soviet-American relations
• Friends and Partners Contains various links to sites on Russian art, literature, music, culture. Included are direct links to Russian museums and online literature collections
• Bucknell Russian Program Contains general literary resources as well as information on various Russian writers
• Modern Russian Writers hosted by Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center

Online News Sites and Servers

• BBC Russia BBC’s Russia page
• Chechen Times
• Directory of Russian Periodicals by the MIT library
• Eurasian Daily Monitor Analysis of CIS politics and economics from the Jamestown Center
• Eurasian Home
• EurasiaNet
• The Exile Moscow’s famous expat weekly
• Johnson's Russia List
• Inside Russia and Eurasia
• Intelligent.ru Political commentary
• Interfax News Agency
• Itar-Tass
• Kommersant  Russia’s famous business daily
• The Moscow News Moscow’s longest running English-language newspaper
• The Moscow Times Moscow's English-language newspaper 
• Mosnews.com
• NEWSru.com
• New York Times Russia Page
• Pravda
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian Service
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Tatar-Bashkir Service
• Russian News from the Eurasia Research Center
• RussianNews.net
• Russia Post
• Russia Profile Analysis and commentary
• Russia Today Russia’s first English TV Channel
• RIA Novosti
• SMI.ru Collects news from Russia’s news dailies
• St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg's English-language newspaper
• Voice of Russia
• Web Radio International Hear broadcasts from countries all over the world

Russia and CIS Blogs

• Accidental Russophile
• Budget Files
• Carpetblogger
• Copy Dude: Inspiring Stories from Russia
• Cyrill Vatomsky: Where All Politics Are Global
• De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis
• Digenis.org
• Eastern Approaches
• Edward Lucas
• Eurasia Blog
• Germany and Russia
• Global Voices Online: Russia
• The Long Defeat in Russia
• Maaskva: nashimi glazami (Russian and English)
• Megan Case
• Moscow Graffiti
• Neeka's Backlog
• NewEurasia.net
• New Russian Corporatism
• Official Russia Blog
• Otto's Random Thoughts
• Robert Amsterdam
• Ruminations on Russia
• RusEnergy: Russian Oil & Gas Industry News
• Russia Blog
• Russia in the Media
• Russia From the Inside
• Russian Brief
• Russian Blog
• The Russian Dilettante's Weblog
• Russian Marketing Blog
• The Russian Riviera
• Russian Spy
• Russian Standard
• Salsa Rusa (in Spanish)
• Sean's Russia Blog
• SiberianLight
• Scraps of Moscow
• Sharp & Sound
• Snowsquare
• A Step At A Time
• Sturmovik Blog
• Timothy Post
• The Turkish Invasion
• Untimely Thoughts
• Very Russian Tochka Net
• Vilhelm Konnander's Weblog
• White Sun of the Desert
• ZheZhe[dot]us

Bashkir Language Study

• Turkic Languages offered through the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Russian Language Study

• Russian Language Program at UCLA
• Russian Courses offered through The UCLA Deparment of Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Beyond Golosa*: Using Your Russian on the World Wide Web a collection of Internet-based tutorials that use Russian-language Web resources
• EAP Study Abroad Programs UC study abroad in Russia
• AATSEEL This page describes intensive programs in Slavic and East European languages as well as in the languages of the Republics of the former Soviet Union. The listings include those programs offered in U.S. (and some Canadian) colleges and universities as well as in programs abroad.
• The School of Russian and Asian Studies offers opportunities to study language and other disciplines at universities in Russia and Central Asia.
• The UCLA Language Materials Project learning resources for less commonly taught languages of the world
• The Russian Language Program at Middlebury College, Vermont. Summer language immersion program
• The Russian and East European Summer Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh
• Special Department of Philology at St. Petersburg State University offers Russian courses for foreigners
• Russian-English-Russian An online dictionary
• East Slavic online dictionaries
• Language Resource Page A page of links to information on distance learning and technology resources, traditional language study programs (including those that offer instruction in less commonly taught languages) and other general language study resources.

Academic and Fellowship Information

• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Provides funding for study in many scholarly program in Central and Eastern Europe
• The Association for Women in Slavic Studies The AWSS homepage contains a list of members' research, information about AWSS, a mentoring list, and other information
• The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages The AATSEEL page provides computing resources, information about the annual AATSEEL conference, job listings, study and funding information
• Moscow State University (MGU) Official university website; contains information on faculty, registration, and publications
• Social Science Research Council Fellowship and program information for Soviet Successor States
• ACTR/ACCELS For fellowships and exchange programs in Central and East Europe, Russia and NIS
• Library Servers via WWW Libraries from over 90 countries, updated daily. Sponsored by UC Berkeley library and Sun Microsystems
• Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship This program offers scholarships to undergraduate students with financial need and encourages students underrepresented in study abroad programs to apply. Awards of up to $5000 for semester or academic year study abroad programs.

The Russian Federation, or Russia, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest nation, Canada. It ranks seventh in the world in population, following China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and Pakistan.