Links to web sites
Russian daily news and commentary in English:
http://polit.ru/story/int.html
Russian daily news and commentary in Russian only:
Presidential
Administration web site, with complete archive of Putin speeches:
http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/
Johnson’s Russian
List, a daily bulletin which is a must-read for Russia-watchers:
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/
Center for Defense
Information’s Russia Weekly:
http://www.cdi.org/russia
Daily news (Newsline)
and background reports from the US-funded Radio Liberty:
http://www.rferl.org
Jamestown
Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
http://www.jamestown.org
Transitions Online.
Current articles on the region and archives going back to 1995:
http://www.tol.cz
For data on election
results and public opinion polls on major issues:
http://www.russiavotes.org
For
stories on the other former Soviet republics, Central Asia and the
Caucasus:
http://www.eurasianet.org
News and analysis on
Central Asia and the Caucasus:
http://www.cacianalyst.org/
Listing
of Russian TV available online:
http://www.russiansabroad.com/TVRadio/
Kremlin sponsored TV in English:
http://www1.russiatoday.ru/
Leading
independent poll center:
http://www.levada.ru/
Official poll
center:
http://www.wciom.ru
Official statistics:
http://www.gks.ru/eng/
World Bank reports
on the Russian economy:
http://www.worldbank.org/ru
OECD reports on the
Russian economy:
http://www.oecd.org/russia
BBC news index of
stories and timelines for each country:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
Best site for maps
of the Former Soviet Union:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth.html
Good photo collection,
especially these scenes from the highway to Yakutsk:
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=315
