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Government and official information:

• CIA World Factbook - Russia
• Constitution of the Russian Federation
• Government of the Russian Federation (In Russian)
• Internet Law Library - Russia
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• The Moscow City Government
• Ofitsial´naia Rossiia (Russian Government Home Page)
• President of the Russian Federation
• Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
• State Duma (In Russian)
• United Nations Development Programme - Russia

Elections:

General sites:

• Russia Elections 2011/12 (GlobalVoices)
• Vybor Est´ (RIA Novosti)
• Russian presidential election 2012 (the Voice of Russia)
• Presidential Elections of the Russian Federation (the Voice of Russia)
• Novaia Gazeta
• Vybori prezidenta RF 2012 (Yandex)
• Elections 2012 (Carnegie.ru)
• Russian elections 2012 (Euronews)
• Russian presidential elections (Deutsche Welle)
• Russian presidential election 2012 (Guardian)
• Russia Election 2012 (BBC)
• Main Electoral Comission
• Presidential Election, 4 March 2012 (OSCE)

• Sergei Mironov
• Mikhail Prokhorov
• Vladimir Putin
• Gennadii Ziuganov
• Vladimir Zhirinovskii

• Vybory 2012 (VCIOM)
• Prezidentskie vybory 2012 (FOM)
• Vybori prezidenta: predvaritel´nyi prognos (FOM)
• Press-vypuski (Levada-Tsentr)

• Election 2012 (RT)
• Prezidentskie vybory 2012 (newstube.ru)
• Vybory 2012 (vesti.ru)
• ntv.ru

• G. Ziuganov vs M. Prokhorov (6th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• V. Zhirinovskii vs V. Putin (N. Narochnitskaia) (7th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• V. Zhirinovskii vs G. Ziuganov (9th February, Rossia24 via YouTube)
• M. Prokhorov (I. Prokhorova)vs V. Putin (N. Mikhalkov) (13th February 2012, Rossia24 via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov vs S. Mironov (13th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• M. Prokhorov (E. Roizman) vs. V. Putin (M. Shmakov) (14th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• S. Mironov (V. Bobkov) vs V. Putin (S. Glaz´ev) (15th February 2012 TVC via YouTube)
• S. Mironov vs V. Zhirinovskii (16th February 2012, Rossia24 via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov (N. Ostanina) vs S. Mironov (E. Glinka) (16th February 2012, TVC via YouTube)
• V. Zhirinovskii vs S. Mironov (20th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov (I. Boldyrev) vs V. Putin (M. Shaimiev) (21st February 2012 Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• V. Zhirinovskii vs M. Prokhorov (22nd February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• V. Zhirinovskii vs V. Putin (A. Romanov) (22nd February 2012, TVC via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov (S. Udal'tsov) vs M. Prokhorov (A. Liubimov) (24th February 2012, Rossiia24 via YouTube)
• S. Mironov vs M. Prokhorov (27th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov vs V. Putin (S. Bagnenko) (27th February 2012, Rossiia 1 via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov vs V. Zhirinovskii (28th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• M. Prokhorov vs V. Zhirinovskii (28th February 2012, Rossiia 1 via YouTube)
• S. Mironov (I. Grymov) vs V. Putin (F. Bondarchuk) (29th February 2012, Pervyi kanal via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov (I. Bondyrev) vs M. Prokhorov (E. Roizman) (29th February 2012, TVC via YouTube)
• G. Ziuganov vs S. Mironov (29th February 2012, Rossiia 1, via YouTube)
• V. Zhirinivskii vs M. Prokhorov (I. Starikov) (1st March 2012, TVC via YouTube)
• V. Putin (I. Mokhachev) vs V. Zhirinovskii (1st March 2012, Rossiia 1 via YouTube)

• Rossiia sosredotachivaetsia - vyzovy, na katorye my dolzhny otvetit' (Izvestiia, 16th January 2012)
    Russia muscles up - the challenges we must rise to face (English version)
• Rossiia - natsionalnii vopros (Nezavisimaia Gazeta, 23rd January 2012)
    Russia: The Ethnicity Issue (English version)
• O nashikh ekonomichieskikh zadachakh (Vedomosti, 30th January 2012)
    Economic tasks (English version)
• Demokratiia i kachestvo gosudarstva (Kommersant, 6th February 2012)
    Democracy and the quality of government (English version)
• Stroitel'stvo spravedlivosti. Sotsial'naia politika dlia Rossii (Komsomol'skaia Pravda, 13th February 2012)
    Building justice: A social policy for Russia (English version)
• Byt sil'nymi: garantii natsional'noi bezopasnosti dlia Rossii (Rossiiskaia Gazeta, 20th February 2012)
    Being strong: National security guarantees for Russia (English version)
• Rossiia i mieniaioshtiisia mir (Moskovskie Novosti, 27th February 2012)
    Russia and the changing world (English version)

• Despite lack of level playing field in Russian elections, voters took advantage of right to express choice, observers say (OSCE)
• Statement of preliminary findings and conclusions (OSCE report)
• CrossTalk: Russia Votes (Russia Today via YouTube)
• Clinton points to possible ballot stuffing, other fraud in Russia election (The Washington Post)
• McCain warns Putin of 'Arab spring'(Tom Washington - The Moscow Times)
• An 'iron hand' is no substitute for democracy(Madeleine Albright and Andrew Kohut - FT)
• Clinton calls Russian election unfair (the Washington Post)
• Clinton's comment on Duma election disrespectful to OSCE - Lavrov (Voice of Russia)
• 'US pins labels:' Russia slams Clinton over election criticism(Russia Today)
• Medvedev shoos foreign powers from domestic affairs (RIA Novosti)
• State Duma speaker Gryzlov compares McCain with March Hare from Alice in Wonderland(RIA NOvosti)
• Gorbachev calls for new elections to appease Russians (Shaun Walker - the Independent)
• Putin says U.S. stoked Russian protests(Reuters)
• Observers Question Fairness of Vote (Moscow Times)
• Russian media see flaws in parliamentary election(BBC)
• OSCE sees 'lack of level playing field' in Russian elections (RIA Novosti)
• Western Monitors Criticize Russian Elections (David M. Herszenhorn, Ellen Barry - the New York Times)
• Observers: all in all, elections up to scratch (Russia Today)
• No violations at Russia's parliamentary elections - observers (RIA Novosti)
• Foreign experts laud Russia elections (Voice of Russia)

Electoral information:

• Online map with the elections results (Yandex.ru)
• Online map with the elections results (gazeta.ru)
• Duma elections: A who's who - video (Russia Today)
• An Expat's Guide to the Duma Vote (the Moscow News)
• Voting Behaviour - 2011 Duma Campaign (Levada Center)

Images of the elections:

• In Russian parliamentary elections, Putin's party stumbles (The Washington Post)
• Russia votes: In pictures (BBC)
• Election day in Russia (USA today)

• Russian elections (newstube.ru)

• New parliament will be 'lively' - Medvedev (RIA Novosti)
• Little Partying for Opposition, But Plenty of Work (Howard Amos et al. - the Moscow Times)
• To boost his bid, Putin needs to retreat from his party: analysts(RIA Novosti)
• Election estimates vary(Maria Vesnovskaya - Voice of Russia)
• Russia election: Protesters defy rally ban in Moscow(BBC)
• Hundreds gathering in Russian capital; riot police on standby(Russia Today)
• Russian police and troops mass in Moscow before protest(Miriam Elder - the Guardian)
• Troops deployed on Moscow streets after Russia election protests (Andrew Osborn - the Telegraph)
• Troops on Moscow streets as tensions flare(Charles Clover FT)
• No extra troops deployed in Moscow - Interior ministry (Russia Today)
• Hundreds arrested as thousands protest elections in Moscow(Russia Today)
• Russia election descends into violence as riot police clash with protesters(Miriam Elder - the Guardian)
• Putin May Shift Blame to 'Fall Guy' Medvedev for Vote Setback (Henry Meyer - Bloomberg)
• Vladimir Putin: the gremlin in the Kremlin (Andrew Osborn - the Telegraph)
• Putin suffers a poll setback amid claims of electoral fraud (Shaun Walker - the Independent)
• Putin will still regain the presidency. Media control should see to that (Shaun Walker - the Independent)
• Putin 'Weakened' But Will Win Presidency in March (Masha Lipman's interview via Bloomberg)
• Putin Majority Signals Stability to Prosperity: Russia Overnight (Halia Pavliva - Bloomberg)
• Putin Left Vulnerable By Election Battering (Amanda Walker - Sky News)
• Putin's Party Wins Election But Loses Seats (Amanda Walker - Sky News)
• Russian elections: support for Vladimir Putin's party drops sharply (Miriam Elder - the Guardian)
• Russian election results will be shock for Vladimir Putin (Andrew Osborn - the Telegraph
• Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party suffers poll blow (Andrew Osborn - the Telegraph)
• Majority for Putin's Party Narrows in Rebuke From Voters(David M. Herszenhorn, Ellen Barry - the New York Times)
• Putin's Party Appears to Lose Ground in Vote Marred by Controversy (Lynn Berry - the Time)
• Vladimir Putin to be embarrassed in Russian elections, exit polls show (Andrew Osborn - the Telegraph)
• Vladimir Putin set to lose majority amid complaints of electoral violations (Miriam Elder - the Guardian)
• A slap in the face for United Russia (Gideon Rachman - the Financial Times)
• Why do people vote for United Russia?(Dmitri Babich - Livejournal)
• Early Russian polls show surprise setback for Vladimir Putin (Fred Weir - the Christian Science Monitor)
• Russian parliamentary elections: rousing from a long slumber (the Guardian - editorial)
• Dmitri Rogozin: Russia will get an advantage from a stronger competition in Duma In Russian. Dmitri Rogozin - RIA Novosti
• From the streets: Russian voices on the election (Reuters)
• ANALYSIS: Voters' patience with Russia's rulers thinning, experts say(Stefan Korshak - M and C)

• Russian Vote Criticized (by Allan Cullison - WSJ)
• Voting irregularities by the opposition parties In Russian (Edinaia Rossia)
• Poll violations: Invisible ink, ballot throw-in, illegal propaganda (Russia Today)
• Election violations alleged as Russians vote (CBS)
• Blogger's rage (Lenta.ru)
• 'Hacking attacks' hit Russian political sites (BBC)
• Independent Russian Websites Hacked, Disabled On Election Day (Radio Free Europe)
• Golos Niotkuda - NTV program about Golos (NTV via You Tube)
• Voters' rights group inciting 'Orange Revolution'? (Moskovskie Novosti via RIA Novosti)
• Observing is okay, interfering is not (Vladimir Stepanov - Russia Beyond the Headlines)
• Washington concerned over pressure on Russian election watchdog (RIA Novosti)
• Kremlin accused of trying to gag election monitors (BBC)

• Gazeta.ru 2008 Election coverage
• Russian Public Opinion Research Center - 2008 Presidential Election
• Dmitrii Medvedev's Site - Presidential Campaign 2008
• Gennadii Ziuganov's Site - Presidential Campaign 2008
• Vladimir Zhirinovskii's message to the voters
• Andrei Bogdanov's web site
• Vesti - Vybory 2007
• Russian Public Opinion Research Center - State Duma Elections 2007
• Gazeta.ru 2007 Election coverage
• Edinaia Rossiia
• Kommunisticheskaia Partiia 2007 Elections
• LDPR website
• Spravedlivaia Rossiia 2007 Elections
• Russian Duma Elections - 7 December 2003 Coverage from the BBC
• Central Electoral Commission
• Election Reports - Russian Federation (from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights)
• ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Russian Federation
• Panorama.ru (Free access to information on over a thousand politicians and their organizations. Includes analytical reviews.)
• List of political parties in Russia (from Wikipedia)
• Political Parties and Organizations - Russian Federation
• Russian Election Watch
• Russia Votes (Joint project by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Aberdeen, and the Levada Centre (formerly VCIOM))
• Russia's Vote for President 2000 - Election Coverage from the BBC
• The Putin Project (from the BBC World Service)

Attack on Domodedovo, 24th January 2011

• Dr Peter Duncan from UCL-SSEES on Channel 4
• Russian President's response
• Moscow Mayor's response
• Ria Novosti
• Reconstruction of terrorist attack - Ria Novosti
• Response from Number 10
• Novaia Gazeta
• Gazeta.ru
• Lenta.ru
• RIA Novosti (English)
• Russia Today
• Interfax
• RT (Medvedev)
• RT (Kadyrov)
• The Moscow Times
• Airport bomb targets Russia's pitch to investors - Reuters
• Airport bomb may aggravate Russian ethnic tensions - Reuters
• Investigative committee solves terrorist act at Domodedovo (RT)
• Vesti
• Doku Umarov claims resposibility for terrorist attack - BBC
• Doku Umarov placed on US list of terrorists - RIA Novosti, 24 June 2010
• Designation of Caucasus Emirates Leader Doku Umarov - US Department of State, 23 June 2010
• Doku Umarov profile - BBC
• Doku Umarov profile - Lenta.ru

Economics and statistics:

• BISNIS Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States
• Central Bank of the Russian Federation
• Economist Country Briefings: Russia
• EERC Economics Education and Research Consortium
• Ekspert (Weekly business magazine)
• Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS)
• Moscow Stock Exchange
• The Russian Economy (Hoover Institution Public Policy Inquiry)
• Russian Federation and the IMF
• Rusmarket.com - Business Directory
• Federal State Statistics Service (Also available in Russian)

News and media (Russian language):

• Argumenty i fakty
• BBC - Russian Service
• Eastview Universal Database of Russian Newspapers and Journals
• Ezhenedel'nyi Zhurnal
• Gazeta.ru Daily newspaper in Russian.
• Grani.ru
• Interfax
• ITAR-TASS Russian news agency.
• Itogi
• Izvestiia
• Kommersant'-Vlast'
• Komsomolskaia Pravda
• Lenta.ru
• Literaturnaia Gazeta
• Moskovskaia Pravda
• Moskovskii Komsomolets
• Nastoiashchie Itogi - eto my
• NewsLab Russia
• NEWSru.com
• Nezavisimaia Gazeta
• NovayaGazeta.ru
• Olonetskie gubernskie vedomosti
• Polit.ru
• Pravda
• RIA Novosti
• Rossiiskaia Gazeta
• Russkii Zhurnal
• Sovershenno sekretno
• Strana.Ru
• Svoboda News
• Tvoi den'
• Vedomosti 1702 - 1727
• Vesti.ru
• Vladivostok News
• Vremia

News and media (English language):

• Gazeta.ru International
• Guardian on Russia
• Interfax News Agency
• The Moscow News Weekly
• The Moscow Times
• Pravda
• Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
• RIA Novosti
• Russia Beyond the Headlines
• The Russia Journal
• Russia Profile
• Russia Today
• The St Petersburg Times
• Voice of Russia

European and American academic sites:

• Amherst Center for Russian Culture
• CRIA: Caucasian Review of International Affairs
• ESSA: Early Slavic Studies Association
• Maps of Russia and the Former Soviet Republics (from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin.)
• Meeting of Frontiers (This site chronicles the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.)
• NUPI Centre for Russia Studies Database (Created and maintained by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
• Population Displacement, State-Building and Social Identity in the Lands of the Former Russian Empire, 1918-1930 (Project based at the School of History and Classics, University of Manchester.)
• Russia Votes (Joint project by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, and the Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research (VCIOM))
• Russian Research Programme, University of Warwick
• SPRILIB Russian North (Library database of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

Academic sites in Russia:

• MAPRYAL The International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature
• Moscow State University
• Novosibirsk State University
• Omsk State Pedagogical University
• Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk
• St. Petersburg State University
• Voronezh State Pedagogical University N.B. Russian only.

Libraries and archives:

• ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia
• Archives of Russia (In Russian)
• Arkhivy Rossii (In Russian)
• British Library - Russian Collections
• Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era
• Eastview Access to Russian Archives
• Leeds Russian Archive
• National Library of Russia
• Research in Former Soviet Archives on Issues of Historical Political Economy
• Revelations from the Russian Archives (from the Library of Congress)
• Russian Orthodox Internet Library
• Russian State Library
• Soviet Archives Exhibit (from the Library of Congress)
• State Library for Foreign Literature
• State Public Historical Library of Russia (Only available in Russian.)

Language:

• English-Russian/Russian-English Dictionary
• Interactive Online Russian Reference Grammar
• Learn and Practice Russian Online
• Russian Video Blog with Learner's Tips

Literature:

• The Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield
• Conradish.net (Classic Russian texts with vocabulary)
• Lib.ru - Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova
• Fundamental´naia elektronnaia biblioteka
• Katalog: Istoriko-literaturnoe izdanie (Russian emigré literature)
• Modern Russian Writers
• Opoiaz
• Russian Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Russian Poets of the XXth Century
• Ruthenia
• SovLit (Russian site which gives useful listings of contents, and in many cases the texts also, of early Soviet journals and literary collections.)
• Sovremennaia russkaia literatura
• Stikhiia (Russian poetry server)
• Bulgakov's Master and Margarita
• The Complete Works of Dostoevsky
• Dostoevsky Research Station
• Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
• Vossoedinennyi virual'nyi arkhiv Osipa Mandel'shtama (Major source for Mandelshtam archive materials)
• The Pushkin Page (Includes the full text of selected works in Russian and English)
• Leo Tolstoy (Full text of selected works)
• Tostory Studies Journal
• The Novels of Turgenev: Symbols and Emblems (By Richard Peace, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol)

Culture and society:

• Russian Cinema
• Bol'shoi Theatre, Moscow
• Far From Moscow (Russian popular music)
• Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
• The Kirov Ballet
• Kommunalka (Life in the communal flat)
• Liubimye pesni flota
• HealthProm
• Music under Soviet Rule
• Soviet Composers
• The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
• Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg
• Rodina (Journal about Russian history and culture)
• Russian Gay Culture
• Russian Art (from Auburn University, USA)
• Russian Lubok (Popular Print)
• Russian Painting
• Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama
• Russian Visual Arts, 1800-1913
• Russian Visual Arts Database
• Revolution by Design: The Soviet Poster
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Russian Icons
• The Empire that was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Online exhibition from the Library of Congress.)

Business, industry and science:

• Russian Pharmaceutical Review

History:

• A Chronology of Russian History
• Communist Chronicles
• Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia
• The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev: Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal Chronicles Final Years of the Cold War - 1985
• The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev: Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal Chronicles Final Years of the Cold War - 1986
• The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev: Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal Chronicles Final Years of the Cold War - 1987-88
• Joseph Stalin: Biographical Chronicle
• Medieval and Early Modern Russia and Ukraine
• Russian History (from Bucknell University, USA)
• Russian History Index
• Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
• Virtual Guide to the History of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology

Regions and cities:

• All Regions of Russia by Pictures
• Wooden Churches. Travelling in the Russian North 100 Years after Bilibin
• Izdatel'skii dom Provintsiia (Contains material from a number of provincial publications)
• SunSITE Russia: Moscow
• PetersburgCity.com
• 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg (Official site of international events)

Search engines:

• APORT
• Rambler
• Yandex

Other resources:

• The Britain-Russia Centre and the British East-West Centre
• Images of Russia and the Caucasus Region, 1929-1933
• REESweb: The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian and East European Studies
• Russia on the Net
• Russia on the Web
• Russian London
• Sher's Russian Index
• Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies

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