Despite Russia's diminished world role since the end of the cold war, there are plenty of resources on the Internet dedicated to its political life. And, because so few people outside the country speak Russian (or have computers that can read Russian characters), most of them come in English as well as Russian versions.
Russia On Line is by far the best source of material on Russia in general on the internet. It is available both in English and Russian. This link takes you to the English version.
Russia Today is another general source providing basic news and information about political and other matters. Like Russia On Line, its coverage is somewhat spotty.
Electoral and related issues are covered well in this site originally set up to monitor the 1995 parliamentary elections.
The Jamestown Foundation, staffed largely by Russian (and Soviet) emigres, regularly sends out both news summaries and analyses.
Post-Soviet Studies are the focus of this website maintained by Ira Kallen at the University of Tennessee.
Constitutional issues are the specialty of a website maintained by the law school at the University of Chicago.
The Andrei Sakharov Foundation concentrates on human rights issues.
OMRI has the Open Market Research Institute's (formerly Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) analyses.
You can also find good resources from the websites of American academic research centers that deal with the former Soviet Union. Among the most comprehensive of them are:
There are two main sources of news on the former Soviet Union. Be warned, however, that both will give you a lot of material, more than most people have time to handle on a daily basis.
FBIS (The Foreign Broadcast Information Service) has long been the best source of translated material from the press of current and former communist countries. Much of its material is now available on line. Note, though, that there is a hefty fee for this service.
OMRI's summaries of the daily press in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe can be obtained via email by subscribing to its listserv, OMRI-L, at listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu.
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