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Art, Culture and Politics
Art and Culture
- Teneta is an undertaking by Leonid Delitsine and others that are trying hard, very hard to find "Best Russian On-Line Literature" on the Net and publish it online.
- MITKI do not defeat anybody! (whispering) This is why they will win the world.
- Ykrop is a group of arts people in New York.
- Gusarskiy Klub. Keywords: russian, gusarskij club, gusary, gospoda, vodka, karty, preferans, zhenschiny, rzhevskij, poruchik, zhopa.
- Chistyakov Music is an article about Fedor Chistyakov from the Russian classic restaurant punk group Nol'' (Zero) that appear in the magazine Med'ved'.
- Alexandra Pakhmutova page has about 200 texts of her songs, information about her nearest concerts and other related information.
- Russian Song lyrics in MIT Russian club.
- First Germany Aquarium Page. The site is all about Aquarium, with a lot of stuff on the band. Design of the site is a disaster, though.
- N. Zh. M. D. is a rather cool site by Artemy Lebedev.
- Chernovik is a literary site by Anton B. Nikitin.
- Public Library of Vladimir Vysotsky has 640 verser by Vladimir Vysotsky.
- Tolstoy Library is dedicated to the collection and dissemination of electronic text materials related to the life and work of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
- Eglador is a site for Tolkien fans who understand Russian.
- Almanah "Stranstviya" posvjaschen vzaimootnosheniyam ezoterizma, religii, nauki, geopolitiki, iskusstva i sovremennogo obschestva.
- Cultural Provocations is an interesting and provocative work by Sergy Datsuk.
- Music archive. Since Russians and xSovoks like all kinds of music, not only balalaika and garmoshka tunes, this archive is very international in its nature. It contains BMG mail-order catalogue, In House Music mail-order catalogue, list of CD mail-order firms, etc.
Buy Russian Objects
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Sovietski Collection
is a monumental mail order in California.
Lots of good old authentic Soviet stuff.
They even have the old "Zheleznyj Felix" mechanical calculators.
- Page Abramova presents the best in Russian Art to consumers in the West.
Politics
- The Library of Congress Soviet Archives exhibition. A collection of the Soviet period documents assembled in the Library of Congress.
- Russian Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism is focused on Russian anarchism from the late 80s to the present.
- Rudolf Ivanovich Abel is a good old KGB spy that quietly worked in the US. Now even though he is dead, the guy got a nice Web page.
- Soviet Politics/History during the formative stages of the Union development is an informative page by Saul Basgen. Pictures, documents, history.
- Russian Journal is a discussion forum founded by private persons and magazine "Century XX and Mir".
- Crazy Soviets is a rather cool place that is also ideologically sound and therefore close in spirit to SovInformBureau.
- Social Equiality (Социальное Равенство) is the Russian Marxist (Trotskyist) on-line journal.
- Iskra Research Publishing House apparently continues to follow the party line started by the original Iskra.
Photo Journalism
- A Russia Phototrack is a gallery of pictures of Russia and essays on Russia. Interesting and diverse.
- FotoCom is a page for Russian photographers by George Abramov (the page itself is in Russian).
Current Newspapers, Magazines, Politics
- Russian Newspapers and Magazines lists mosts publications in Russian now available on the Net.
- Ogonyok -- yes, the Russian magazine we all know -- is now on the Web.
- Zhurnal Med'ved' is rather cool magazine in Russian.
- Relis has a number of Russian newspaers online (some of them free): Izvestiya, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Russkaya Mysl'', i t.d.
- ZHURNAL.RU is a magazine about Internet. It's like Wired, but it's all in Russian. Both paper and on-line versions are available.
- Newspaper Pravda has a Web site too. Starting with telegraph and telephone again.
- Za Nauku is a newspaper of Moscow Physics and Technology Institute known also as a PhysTech.
- Vladivostok News is Russian Far East only language newspaper. Now they have a web site too.
- RFE/RL daily reports available via Friends and Partners.
- Economic Reform Today in Russian has a number of articles on economic reform in Russia.
- Kyiv Post is Ukrainian English-language newspaper.
- Digest of news related to Russia and former Soviet Union. Somewhat dusty.