http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)
The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library :
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The Ethnologue Database, created from ETHNOLOGUE: Languages of the World, Twelfth Edition, Barbara F. Grimes, Editor, and served from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, has a full catalogue of the languages of Asian Russia and European Russia including alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic data.
The Wiener Institut för Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (WIIW) is an important source of information on the economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The Institute's special expertise - detailed personal knowledge of the countries of the former eastern bloc - is important to institutions and companies active in these countries. The Institute is a non-profit organization supported by the Republic of Austria, the Austrian National Bank, the City of Vienna and Austrian corporate institutions. Its relatively small staff is comprised of highly qualified researchers who carry out regular country studies and cooperate with outside experts on certain projects.
Joe Schrabal has collected several links to News from the Czech and Slovak Republics.
The Russian IRC Homepage is a comprehensive guide to the users and etiquette of the #russian channel of Internet Relay Chat.
Data Text Processing Ltd.'s DATA TEXT LIBRARY contains many electronic text editions, including Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
The Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) is a newly-founded research enterprise located in Prague, Czech Republic. OMRI studies the countries of the former Soviet Union, East-central and Southeastern Europe, and is particularly interested in political, economic, military, social, media and foreign affairs. We are a unique public-private venture funded jointly by the US Board for International Broadcasting and the Open Society Institute.
Access Russia markets the "finest and most useful publications on Russia and the CIS, of both Western and Russian manufacture". In all, over 120 products of four dozen publishers and companies can be procured directly from their Web site.
The Center for Social Science Computation and Research at the University of Washington, has an on-line site for Russian and Soviet Archival Data. Some of these data files are available directly through the WWW, while others can be requested from tape.
The OMRI Daily Digest of news in Central and Eastern Europe and the FSU is now on-line through the OMRI webserver.
Two Macintosh Hypercard stacks (with sound and
graphics), Lenin and Limpopo for teaching Russian have been developed at Brown University, and are being made available to the network. The files are self-extracting archives in MacBinary format.
The Tatra Mountains Virtual Tourist pages are available from the
Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology, Poland. The Tatras pages contain sensitive maps and many pictures about the Tatras.
The Black Hole Peripherals, Inc. home page contains a fascinating image collection, including: photos of old Russia, Russian money photo collection, old Russian commercials and advertisements 1880-1913, old menus of Russian restaurants, Russian leaflets of WWI, and photos of Moscow, August'91, Crimea, August'91, Moscow, October'93, and Chechnya'95.
MOSCOW 1995: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTANCE EDUCATION, July 8-13, 1995, reflects an extraordinary convergence of developments. Among them: the search by colleges, universities
and schools for new, off-campus educational markets and ways to enrich and internationalize their programs; the evolution and widening use of effective, low-cost educational technologies that bring distance learning within the reach of virtually any institution or organization; the emergence of new educational
markets, as institutions around the world and notably in the countries of the former Soviet Union seek partnerships in providing quality education and training through distance learning; and the availability of major funding to assist in the development of distance learning internationally. Because of the
importance of the opportunities these developments create, a diverse set of organizations has joined together to plan this conference.
Three shareware Russian-language instruction software packages, !Russian! V1.0, Russian-English On-Line Dictionary V1.25, and Russian Tutor V1.5 and an elementary Cyrillic word processor for the DOS platform are available on the Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archives (CELIA).
The electronic text of Tolstoy's The Forged Coupon has been created by the Project Gutenberg in 1995.
The Russian Legal Server on Friends and Partners is devoted to giving Americans and Russians access to legal and related information concerning the Russian Federation (and United States, to a lesser extent) in order to promote mutual understanding and
to facilitate international business. Simultaneously, a parallel discussion list has been started called FPLEGAL - for discussion of practices of law (if any) in Russia and other CIS countries. To subscribe to that list send a message : SUBSCRIBE FPLEGAL YourfirstName YourlastName to LISTPROC@SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' IFLANET WWW service has made several papers pertaining to information and networking technologies in Russian libraries available. They are: The First Russian Computerized Library Network: A Description and Perspectives of the LIBNET Project by Dr. Yakov Shraiberg and Mr. Mikhail Goncharov of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; The Current State and Prospects of Online Systems in Russian Libraries by Dr. Yakov Shraiberg of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology; and Problems of Optical Character Recognition Technologies in Russian Libraries and Information Centres by M. Goncharov and D. Nikolaev of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology.
The Zagreb Stock Exchange (Zagrebacka burza) is pleased to announce its WWW Server.
The Alliance College Polish Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Library System is described in an HTML document, with a history of the collection, progress reports and information on how to find and use material in the collection.
Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan at the Royal British Columbia Museum. Genghis Khan, the superb horseman and warrior created a legacy of empire building which made him one of the world's most famous historical figures. Khan and his little known civilization, the Mongols, also created a culture of splendor, wealth and beauty almost unparalleled to this day. March 31 to September 10, 1995, the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria will host the only Canadian venue for Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan. This website holds exhibit information and images of some of the exquisite artifacts. The exhibit features more than 200 priceless artifacts - some dating to the second millennium B.C.
Tygodnik "Gazeta Polska" dystrybuowany jest rowniez w wersji internetowej. Bezplatna subskrybcje mozna zamowic wysylajac list na adres:
prasa-request@world.std.com W tresci listu (a nie w temacie) wystarczy napisac: subscribe W przypadku klopotow z zapisaniem sie na liste dystrybucji mozna prosic o pomoc administratora, w liscie wyslanym na adres: prasa-approval@world.std.com
The permanent personal exhibition of prominent Russian artist and cartoonist Andrei Biljo has been opened on the Institute for Commercial Engineering (ICE) server (Moscow, Russia).
The Russian American Student
Information Network is now on-line. The thrust of RASIN is reconstructing
the Russian city of Yoryevets. This project is known as the "Russian Economic
Model", which consists of a number of projects. The Model will focus on
teaching Russians about the mechanics of a free market economy in a working
Russian environment. A Listserv is also in operation. You can subscribe (it's free) by 1) sending email to: listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu 2) leave the SUBJECT line blank 3) in the message write: subscribe rasin (your name).
Many new Russian Webservers have come on-line in the past 3 months. The section dedicated to them has approximately tripled and moved to its own page. WWW Servers in the Former Soviet Union.
An archive of Computer games written by programmers from FSU is on of the many fine resources to be found on Vladimir Pekkel's Little Russia server.
The International Science Foundation (ISF), was created in December 1992 by philantropist George Soros to provide interim support for basic research in the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states. Under its mandate, the Foundation is to distribute its $100 million budget in 1993 and 1994 primarily through competitive programs to provide research and infrastructure funding to the scientific communities of those countries.
The Information Systems Research Institute of Russia now operates a gopher server with information in Russian about the institute and about Russian networks and educational networks.
The Polish language instructional software for the Macintosh Polish4everyone is made available at the Poniecki Archives, UC Berkeley.
For those interested in information on Central Asia and the Caucasus, a good place to start is the ASIAN STUDIES WWW VL system at the Australian National University, Canberra. The page has many pointers to information starting-points for Armenia, Chechnya, Kazakhtan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tatarstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The Czech Info Center has a wealth of general information about the Czech Republic for Tourists, Travelers, and the curious.
The Czech City of Plzen has set up a Web server to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia. At the main web address, there's an underground Plzen tour--in real time and space. The site also houses a Clickable Map tour of the city, clickable for historic buildings, which give description and further illustration. Also visit Ceske Budejovice, Hradec Kralove, and Zlin.
SUMMER SCHOOL OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES -- sponsored by the International Institute of Russian Language and Culture. The Summer School will be held in the city of Tver, Russia, between June 26 and August 28, 1995. This program will be co-sponsored by the Tver Departments of Education and Culture and the International Institute of Russian Language at Tver InterContact Group. Among participants there will be more than 100 students from Russian higher education institutions and high schools. Foreign students are invited to take part in the Russian Language and Area Studies Program of the Summer School described in the linked brochure. The academic and cultural program is free of charge to participants.
The The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Modern Languages (CTICML) provides information on how Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) can be effectively integrated into existing courses and offers support for language lecturers who are using, or who wish to use, computers in their teaching. In addition, the Centre is the lead site for the TELL courseware development consortium and the administrative centre of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). The CTICML Home Page contains information about the Centre and its services, publications, and staff, as well as pointers to the TELL and EUROCALL Home Pages and useful Internet resources for language teachers. The TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) courseware development consortium is one of a number of projects funded under the Higher Education Funding Councils' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). This programme, which covers a wide range of academic disciplines, aims to produce computer-based materials of high quality which will enhance the efficiency and quality of UK higher education teaching and learning. European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) is an association of language teaching professionals from Europe and worldwide, which aims to promote the use of foreign languages within Europe; provide a European focus for all aspects of the use of technology for language learning; and enhance the quality, dissemination and efficiency of CALL materials. EUROCALL provides information and advice on all aspects of the use of technology for language learning, for those involved in education and training.
Russian Trade Connections is a new Web publication for business people and anyone else interested in trading with Russia.
The Institute of Baltic Studies -- Balti Õpingud in Tartu Estonia is now on-line with a Web page with information about their mission and information on Estonian culture, economics, Estonian history, language, and law.
ALISE - the only integrated library information system developed in Latvia is available through Internet.
CityNet's Russia Page contains links to information about the cities of Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Novgorod, and St. Petersburg.
OK! Software, Inc. has developed the CD-ROM, Hello Russia, an English to Russian Multimedia Phrase Book for learning conversational Russian. It runs on a multimedia PC with MS Windows 3.1. Click on English text to hear native Russian. There is also significant tourist and cultural information on Russia in this product. Coming in June 1995 is Privyet Amerika for the learning of conversational English by Russian speakers.
A Shareware Russian-English-Russian dictionary for Windows, which includes word
processor and True Type Russian font. No Russian keyboard driver required.
The InfoMarket server, provided by the Institute for Commercial Engineering (ICE), is arguably the best source of commercial information about Russia available on the Internet. Here you will find REDGAR (data on Russian securities), securities market laws, SKATE-PRESS ON-LINE, with financial and stocks new, quotes, market indices (in Russian), and informative gudies such as "Overview of the Russian Securities Market" and "Institutional Investors' Guide to Russia". There is much more, including a home page for the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (RCRME).
Global Ukraine is one of the leading Internet providers in the Ukraine. Their Web site has information about their services, and a section called 'Ukraine Online', with general information about Ukraine, and Views of Kiev, with a map of the city and a dozen or so images of Kievan landmarks.
The Treasures of the Czars is a "virtual museum tour" brought to you by the St. Petersburg Times and
The Florida International Museum. It is designed to give you a taste of the actual exhibit that includes more than 250 artifacts from 300 years of Russian history. Great images and graphic desing. Worth visiting.
Two Ukrainian webservers have come online, in Crimea, and another specificall in Odessa but both are on a very slow
links. The majority of their hyper-links are to other well-known sites
and resources, but there is information about Internet connectivity
services in these areas.
Bulgarian Daily News from the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, is made available almost daily by the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington DC. The files are made available on the University of Pittsburgh's PittWeb.
The Russian Institute for Public Networks new WWW site has information about its mission in support of computing and netowrking for research and education, about the Russian Electronic Academic and Research Network (RELARN), and about RIPN's INFOMAG service, which distributes bibliographical and other scientific information, primarily scientific technical journals' tables of contents and foreign electronic bulletins, via electronic networks on a non-profit and non-commercial basis.
The FREENet is a free Russian academic and research network, interconnecting computer networks of research institutes and organizations of Russian Academy of Sciences, universities, colleges, and other research and academic organizations. More information about FREENet. On this server is an excellent guide to Using Cyrillic characters with Web Browsers of every stripe. Not just KOI-8, but the ISO-8859-5, CP1251 and CP866 ('alternative') character sets as well.
Florin Burhala's new Romanian Homepage is a complete collection of Romanian information on the Internet. Among the resources linked here: The Bucharest gopher, the Romanian gopher in Switzerland, home pages of Romanians around the world, exchange rates, and travel information, including essays on jouneys to Romania and Interrail travel in Romania.
Princeton University Libraries' Slavic Languages Cataloging manual is an accumulation of rules and practices unique to Slavic languages cataloging. Ideally, when confronted with cataloging problem, the cataloger should be able to quickly and easily find the answer in this manual, along with the appropriate rule citation in AACR2, LC Rule Interpretation, or CSB citation, plus an example when appropriate.
Information about the University of Pennsylvania's Penn in Prague program, JULY 10-AUGUST 18, 1995, with on-line descriptions of courses.
George Washington University's Slavic Department is on the Web. Their server includes suggested lesson plans, information about their department and courses, and faculty information.
Andreas Lixl-Purcell's Russian Area Studies Trails on the Internet at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), catalogs some of the most useful Russian Area Studies trails and research sites on the Web. The site links to Slavic language, literature and culture resources, popular magazines, libraries, university archives, and other points of interest.
Two issues of a hypertext Russian business-law journal (in
English) Rules And Regulations In Russia were published in
1994. Issue four
contains articles about import and export duties, and government
controls. Issue three has
articles on investments, taxation, intellectual property, and commercial
law. They are made available by the
St. Petersburg Web.
The 9NOV89-L list is intended for whoever may attach a meaning to the date of 9.11.1989 (or 89- 11-09, or 11/9/89)...The e-conference name reflects the most important event in the recent German history, but it can't and shouldn't be seen isolated from what happened, and is now happening, in Poland, the USSR, and Hungary before. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE with Subscribe 9NOV89-L Your Name in the body. Moderators are Axel Mahler AXEL@AVALANCHE.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE - Gerard Gschwind GSCHWIND@TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE. Submission Address: 9NOV89-L@TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE
Two listservs on Russian history are in operation: One is H-RUSSIA (To subscribe, send a message to listserv@uicvm.cc.uic.edu with Subscribe H-RUSSIA Your Name in the body). Subscription address is H-RUSSIA@uicvm.cc.uic.edu. Further information may be obtained by contacting RYLE@URVAX.URICH.EDU. The other is RUSHIST (Discussion of any aspect of the history of Russia from the reign of Ivan III (1462-1505) to the end of the Romanov dynasty in the person
of Nicholas II (1894-1917). (To subscribe, send a message to listserv@VM.USC.EDU with Subscribe RUSHIST Your Name in the body). Subscription address is RUSHIST@VM.USC.EDU. Further information may be obtained by contacting Valentine Smith cdell@vax1.umkc.edu.
The International Affairs Network is a project designed to enhance the institutional capacity of schools of International Affairs in East and Central Europe. It is a collaborative venture involving the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and its International Management Development Institute (IMDI), the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), and carefully selected institutions in the region.
The Orthodox Icon Page, brought to the net by David Vezie, manager of the Orthodox Christian Page. Also the MIT Orthodox Christian Fellowship Icon Page. Both have beautiful images!
Czech Radio's Radio Prague E-News is a transcript of their weekday news bulletin in each of their five broadcast languages: English, Czech, German, Spanish and French. Radio Prague grants the right to redistribute this information in electronic or in printed form, in whole or in part for non-commercial use only. Distribution must include the copyright notice, the date of publication, and Radio Prague's postal or e-mail address. To subscribe, send a message to cr@radio.anet.cz with the subject line of "Subscribe English/Cesky/Deutch/Espanol/Francais" (pick one language per message, please -- and do tell your multi-lingual friends). Other information is available at the same address -- cr@radio.anet.cz -- with the subject-line command 'help.' This same address is home to real people as well, so feel free to send real messages there as well.
A home page devoted to the Romanian city of Timisoara has an incredible amount of local information.
The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) was founded in 1983 as a multicampus research unit serving the entire University of California (UC) system. The institute¼s purpose is to study the causes of international conflict and the opportunities to resolve it through international cooperation. During IGCC¼s first five years, research focused largely on the issue of averting nuclear war through arms control and confidence-building measures between the superpowers. Since then the research program has diversified to encompass several broad areas of inquiry: regional relations, international environmental policy, international relations theory, and most recently, the domestic sources of foreign policy. The IGCC server makes not only text, but related full-color photographs, audio- and video clips, maps, graphs, charts, and other multimedia information available to Internet users world-wide.
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