Russian Resources
Educational Links
- http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/slavic/index.html - Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California Berkeley
- http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html - Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California Los Angeles
- UC San Diego Russian and Soviet Studies Program - Department of Russian and Soviet Studies at University of California San Diego
News and Magazines
- http://english.pravda.ru/ - News and Analysis
- http://www.alphagroup.ru/specnaz - Specnaz Rossii. A very interesting newspaper about Russia's elite anti-terrorist unit - Alpha.
- http://www.anekdotov.net/ - "Za Rulyom" magazine. A personal favorite of the webmaster of this site. Internet version of the most popular Russian car magazine.
- http://www.chas-daily.com/ - Chas-Daily. Internet newspaper in Russian from Riga, Latvia.
- http://www.gazeta.ru/ - Gazeta.ru - daily Internet newspaper in Russian. Your best bet for non-biased news about Russia.
- http://www.km.ru/ - Russian encyclopedic dictionary - reference online.
- http://www.russiannewsroom.com/ - The Russian Newsroom
Russian Art
- http://lib.ru/ - Maksim Moshkow's Library - The most complete collection of texts in Russian; prose, poetry, song lyrics, etc.
- http://www.artinfo.ru/ - From Russia with Art - A catalog of contemporary Russian artists, with pictures of their work.
- http://www.guelman.ru/mitki/info.html - History of Russian army and navy through paintings and sculptures by famous Russian artists.
- http://www.wco.ru/icons/ - A virtual museum of icons. Starting with XI century, some of most beautiful icons can be seen here.
Search Engines
- http://www.aport.ru/ - Aport search engine
- http://www.rambler.ru/ - One of the best Russian search engines. Maintains a list of top 500 sites under each category
- http://www.ru/ - A collection of Russian resources on the web. This site has both Russian and English version
- http://www.yandex.ru/ - Yandex search engine