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- Cyrillic for MS Windows Netscape browser
- Fingertip Software - fonts, software and keyboards for Cyrillic (Belarussian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian) as well as Baltic & Central European languages.
- SovInformBureau: Russify Everything
- The British Library, Slavonic and East European Collections
- Columbia University Libraries: Russian, Eurasian & East European studies
- The European Library - A Comprehensive guide to European Libraries
- Harvard University's Widener Library Slavic Collection
- Hoover Institution Library's Russian/CIS Collection
- Indiana University's Slavic Collection
- The Library of Congress European Reading Room
- Ohio State University's Hilandar Research Library Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
- Princeton University's Russian and Eurasian Studies Resources
- Stanford University's Slavic and Eastern European Studies
- University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
- University of Alberta Library Guide for Slavic and East European Studies
- University of California, Berkeley, Library's Slavic and East European Studies
- University of Cambridge's SPRILIB Russian North - search this database of publications concerning northern Russia and Siberia
- University of Chicago Library's Slavic and East European Collection
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Slavic and East European Library
- University of Kansas Libraries Slavic and Eurasian Studies
- University of Michigan Library's Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Division
- University of North Carolina Library-Chapel Hill's Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Collections
- University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian and East European Studies
- Bucknell University's Russian Studies Department
- Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
- Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Hokkaido University's Slavic Research Center
- Indiana University's Slavic Department
- Ohio State University, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
- Russian Studies On The Web (Roman Leibov)
- Stanford University's Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
- University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- University of Alberta's Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
- University of California, Berkeley's Slavic Languages and Literatures Department
- University of Glasgow, School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies
- University of Oregon, Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC)
- University of Pennsylvania's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- University of Pittsburgh's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- University of Texas at Austin's Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
- University of Washington's Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center
- Yale University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)
- ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
- AWSS (The Association of Women in Slavic Studies)
- BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies)
- BESEDA (Bibliothécaires en Etudes Slaves et Documentalistes Associés) - Association of Slavic Studies Librarians (French)
- Bulgarian Studies Association
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - supports programs on Russian and Eurasian affairs. Site includes policy papers and other publications, transcripts of speeches by top officials, and a special section on Russian elections and politics.
- Carnegie Moscow Center - contains full-text papers and monographs, mostly in Russian.
- Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of The John Hopkins University
- Council for European Studies at Columbia University
- COSEELIS (Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services)
- ESSA (Early Slavic Studies Association)
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting - news reports on the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
- International Higher Education Support Program - offers information for Fellows Programs for teaching and program development in the social sciences in the Newly Independent States, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
- IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) - IREX programs, grants, fellowships and other resources.
- Istituto per l'Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica (Italy)
- Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium (PACSLAV)
- Sabre Foundation - provides information on donating books to Eastern Europe and Russia.
- Slavic and East European Section (SEES)
- ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia - searchable database of archival repositories in the Russian Federation.
- EastEuropeGenWeb
- Federation of East European Family History Societies
- Gulag Memories
- Harvard Project on Cold War Studies - KGB documents available in pdf format.
- Main Ukrainian Archives' Addresses - see also Western Ukraine and South-eastern Poland.
- Openness in Russia and Eastern Europe Project - "multinational undertaking that includes collaborative investigations of contemporary history, joint publications, multinational conferences, technical assistance, training and seed funding, in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Warsaw, Budapest, Moscow, Bucharest, Sofia, Prague, Potsdam and elsewhere."
- Poland Border Surnames - links for those researching genealogy in the former historical borders of Poland including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Moravia, Hungary, Russia, the Balkans, and East Prussia.
- Polish Archives - links to archival sources around the world.
- Polish Genealogical Society of America
- Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress) - "the documents that the Library of Congress has here chosen from the 500 made available from the Russian archives cover the entire range of Soviet history from the October Revolution of 1917 to the failed coup of August 1991. They include material from archives that had been key working files of the Communist rulers until August 1991: the archives of the Central Committee, the Presidential archive, and the KGB."
- Russian Archives Online - collection of photographs, films, audio clips and transcripts.
- Russian/CIS Collection of the Hoover Institution
- Soviet Archives - Russian documents available in pdf format.
- Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP)
- Yale Russian Archive Project (YRAP)
- Alexander Palace - Everyday life in a Romanov Palace
- Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era - titles from McGill University's collection of more than 350 Soviet children's books published in the 1920s and 30s. Organized into eight themes.
- The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress) - photographic survey of eleven regions of the Russian Empire taken between 1909-1915.
- Georgia Revealed: Searching for the Soul of the Caucasus - interactive website about the environment and culture of Georgia accompanied by beautiful photographs, streaming audio and video, daily journal entries and expedition maps.
- In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures (Library of Congress)
- NEWSEUM: The Commissar Vanishes - depicts the works of photo censors in the Soviet Union between 1929-1953. Images of people who fell out of favor with Joseph Stalin were routinely removed from the Soviet photographic archives.
- Prasa w Internecie - Digitalization of two serials: Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1859-1865) and Chimera (1901-1907).
- The Romanovs: Their Empire, Their Books - selections from a 1997/98 exhibit at the New York Public Library.
- The Ukrainian Museum in New York - permanent exhibits and collections
- Yannis Kontos - photographs covering the war in Kosovo, the fall of Milosevic, Yugoslavian children's institution, and more. Not for the squeamish.
- The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia - some past issues available online (1983-onwards)
- Balkanistica
- Center for Research Libraries' CIS Serials Database - search the holdings of CRL. Materials can be borrowed through interlibrary loan.
- East European Constitutional Review
- The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
- Journal of Slavic Linguistics - abstracts and table of contents; full text of Reflections articles.
- Katalog Czasopism Kulturalnych - catalogue of Polish socio-cultural journals and magazines.
- The Russian Review - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
- The Slavic and East European Journal - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
- Slavic Review - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
- Soviet Studies - abstracts and table of contents; full text available through JSTOR.
- Transitions Online
- The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
- European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (French)
- MLA International Bibliography - searches can be limited by language. (access requires Yale IP)
- Online Databases of Russian Publications - 7 fulltext databases covering newspapers, military periodicals, parliamentary publications, Russian legislation, and social science and humanities journals. (access requires Yale IP)
- Periodicals Index Online - searches can be limited by language. (access requires Yale IP)
- RussGUS - "bibliographic database of German language materials on Russia, the Soviet Union and its successor states.The database covers the period since 1974 and consists now of about 175,000 records."
- Vreme News Digest at Ruters University Library
- Yale Collection of Electronic Journals - browse or search for electronic journals available to the Yale community.
- Marx and Engels Internet Archives
- Czech and Slovak Literature Resources
- Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature - digitized classic texts of Ukrainian prose.
- Eugene's Electronic Library - links to works by Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin and more.
- Lithuanian Poetry
- Maksim Moshkow's library
- Ukrainian Literature
- CIA World Factbook Reference Maps
- Oddens' Bookmarks of Maps and Atlases
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin) - modern and historical maps.
- United Nations Cartographic Section (maps are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader)
- Network of East West Women
- Open Women Line - articles and links for womens' studies in Russia. Russian version updated more frequently than English one.
- Refugee Women of the Balkans - special issue of The Anthropology of East Europe Review (1995 13:1).
- Russian and Soviet women's collections - bibliographic guide to works held in the British Library.
- Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership - mostly a list of names; photographs and biographical information available for some.
- Erik Herron's Guide to Post-Communist States on the Web
- CREECA Web - a Guide to Russian, East European and Central Asian Collections (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- REENIC - Russian and East European Network Information Center (University of Texas-Austin)
- REESweb : Russian and East European Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
- NUPI Centre for Russian Studies
- Resources - Russian Study Program (Bucknell University)
- Slavophilia - Slavic and East European Resources