Web Resources on Russia, East Europe and Central Asia
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General Resources
For up-to-date, general information on the 28 countries under CREECA's area of study, consider consulting the following resources:
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| AgriSeek.com | AgriSeek combines a worldwide news service with an interactive business directory and international online job market focusing on agriculture and related fields. |
| CIA World Factbook | Reliable, concise and powerful source of demographic, political, economic, and other data on every country of the world. Updated often. |
| Consular Information Sheets from the US Department of State | Information on visas, safety, travel warnings, and other issues with travel to these countries. |
| Human Rights Country Reports from the US Department of State | These reports on human rights practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. |
| UN Human Development Reports | Data and policies for economic, political, social and cultural development. Find the yearly report you need or use the search criteria at the right to select a country or region. |
| U.S. Global Competence | Created by the American Council on Education and Coalition for International Education, this site includes short videos about the importance of international and foreign language education as well as useful links to information on the Title VI/Fulbright-Hays programs and related U.S. Department of Education online resources. |
| Yahoo! Country Directory | Good directory of links for each country -- including media, politics, and the arts. |
Country Resources
Our resources will expand to include CREECA-related countries from language courses offered at UW-Madison. Soon to come: Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and countries of the former Yugoslavia. In the meantime, please enjoy our catalog of Russia-related links.
| Country | Description |
|---|---|
| Russia | CREECA's list of links to Russia-related websites. 40 Categories of sites, including agriculture, law, museums, photography and more. |
UW-related CREECA Resources
Many of the following resources may require an authorized UW-Madison login (i.e. a valid UW-Madison NetID) or access from on campus.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) | To access this resource, please search for ABSEES at the UW-Madison E-Resource Gateway. |
| Carrie Full Text Library | Online library of full-text resources on numerous topics. |
| Central Asian Interactive Listening Series (CAILS) | The goal of the CAILS project is to develop and disseminate a series twenty online lessons designed to enable students with an intermediate level of proficiency in a Central Asian Turkic language to achieve advanced-level listening comprehension in Kazakh or Uzbek. |
| Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR) | The Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR) is a scholarly review of research, resources, conferences, events, publications and developments in scholarship and teaching on Central Eurasia. |
| Central and East European Online Library (CEEOL) | Large online database of periodicals on the humanities and social sciences. |
| CREECA Lending Library | Browse titles from CREECA's very own lending library. Documentaries, feature films, music and books! Filter the catalog by language, subtitle, subject matter, keyword and more. Note: Online requests are no longer functional. Please stop in room 210 Ingraham Hall to see Nancy Heingartner for lending library requests. |
| CREECA Newsletter Archive | Browse CREECA newsletters from 2001 onward. |
| CREECA Lecture Archive | A directory of recorded lectures given by local and visiting professors and specialists that were sponsored by CREECA. A great resource for research or when you missed an interesting lecture on campus. |
| Department of Slavic Languages and Literature | The Department of Slavic Languages at UW-Madison offers instruction over a broad range of languages, literatures and cultures from the Slavic world. The Department began as a Department of Polish in 1936 and assumed its present name in 1942. |
| EastView Database | Newspapers, statistics and other data. Powerful database of publications, statistics, and other sources of information including Goskomstat. Includes foreign-language materials. |
| Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Goskomstat) | Contains information on government publications of statistical data, as well as some 'handbooks' and other free sources of data. In Russian. |
| Inside Islam | With an emphasis on interactive technology, Inside Islam creates a public forum for positive and constructive sharing of knowledge about Islam. CREECA is one of 9 UW-Madison area and international studies centers that supports Inside Islam. |
| International Institute | The International Institute at UW-Madison leads the nation in international and area studies. Its 16 member programs cover every world region. Eight of the programs are federally funded national resource centers, a record number for the U.S. In 2006, the Institute celebrated its tenth anniversary as UW-Madison's portal to the world. |
| ISI Emerging Markets Database | This clearinghouse includes updated news and reports on the economies, financial markets, industries, and legal sectors of selected developing countries. Many foreign-language materials. |
| Languages and Cultures of Asia | The Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia focuses on research and teaching in the Asian humanities, with particular emphasis on cultures, literatures, religions, and languages. |
| Letters & Science LSS Media Catalog | The Learning Support Services library collection provides audio-visual materials for over 100 foreign languages and other Letters & Science subjects. |
| NewsLab Eurasia | The NewsLab Eurasia project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to create a unique digital archive of television news from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. NewsLab Russia, the first phase of the NewsLab Eurasia project, contains stories from the Moscow prime-time news broadcast on Russia's three national television networks--Channel One, NTV, and Rossiya--for the twelve months beginning March 1, 2007, a period that includes but is not limited to the 2007 Duma and 2008 presidential campaigns. |
| Russian, East European, and Central Asian Collections at UW-Library: Directory of Resources and Links | Look through the pull-down menus at the top of the page for numerous resources, including journals, databases, library catalogs, and lists of resources by region. |
| Russian History on the Web | Professor Petrovich's online lectures, a great resource on Russian history. |
| Soviet Nationalities Data: 1926 and 1959 Censuses | DISC (Data Information and Services Center) is located in UW-Madison's Sewell Social Science Building. The materials held by DISC may be used free of charge by all students, staff and faculty of the UW-Madison. Certain categories of materials may also be used by the general public. |
| UW-Madison E-Resource Gateway | Search here for online resources including journals, EBSCO databases, and other sources of information. |
Broadcasts from Around the World
Listen to live and recorded radio and television broadcasts on your computer.
Many radio and television stations around the world are now providing live or recorded broadcasts online. Stations which broadcast from (or in the languages of) Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia are listed here in alphabetical order by language.
Note that in some cases, especially where a station offers a variety of broadcasts, home pages for the stations are included in this list rather than direct links to the broadcast. Refer to these for programming schedules, easy selection of recorded broadcasts, and other information.
Instructions: to receive live air, please, click on the links above. You must have appropriate plug-ins: RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. If you don't know Russian simply enjoy the music of a foreign language!
Russian TV Stations Online
Check out TV4all.com for a useful listing of various Russian TV broadcasts that are streamed over the internet. Content ranges from news to classic film; some require high-speed internet, others do not.
Russian television NTV can now be viewed by anyone on the UW-Madison campus network. It is available on the Digital Academic Television Network as an MPEG-1 stream that can be played on most computers using Quicktime. The stream may be too much for slow computers, but is available to those on the UW-Housing Resnet network and to those in Eagle Heights Apartments. Note that this will not work off-campus and may not work through a firewall.
For more details or to watch the stream of NTV, go to: http://datn.wisc.edu/
Voice of Russia video broadband: Hour-long updated video segments from this Russian media outlet.
NTV: Part of the Media-Most holding. Broadcast in Russian.
TVC (TV Center): A Moscow TV channel that is controlled by Moscow authorities. You can hear and see it's 30 minute news block. Broadcast in Russian.
ORT- Uses Windows Media Player.
RTR- Uses Windows Media Player.
Culture- Uses Windows Media Player.
TV6- Uses Windows Media Player.
Would you like to use newscasts and television shows from the target culture in your classes? Would you like to be able to watch high-quality TV over the internet to keep up your language skills and your knowledge of the target culture up-to-date? LSS (Learning Support Services) can show you how; it's free and easy. For details on this exciting new development, see our latest blog entry.
Radio Portals
Radio Free Europe
Albanian
Voice of Russia (see schedule for Albanian broadcasts)
Bosnian
Domovina Net (radio and video broadcasts)
RTV Broadcasts (radio and video in Serbo-Croatian)
Bulgarian
Voice of Russia (see schedule for Bulgarian broadcasts)
Croatian
RTV Broadcasts (radio and video in Serbo-Croatian)
Czech
Radio Prague (daily news)
KISS Hady 88.3 FM | KISS Radio Group (Stefanikova, Czech Republic -- live Top 40 programming)
Voice of Russia (VOR) (see schedule for Czech broadcasts)
Hungarian
Polish
Radio Jowisz (Jelenia Gora, POLAND -- programming in Polish, including games)
Russian
Echo of Moscow
One of the first free mass media in Russia after collapse of USSR. It is the part of Media-Most holding - private russian corporation with Mr.Gusinsky as as the main holder. Very professional and creative team. "Echo of Moscow" spreads democratic values of free speech and open critics towards Government and other State organs.
Kultura radio - Russian page
Deutsch Welle | Russian page | Radio v "Internete"
106.8 FM (live from Moscow, 106.8 FM plays a variety of new age music 24 hours a day)
Radio Sweden | Russian page
Voice of America (VOA) | 3:00 news | 8:00 news | 18:00 news
Voice of Russia (VOR) | daily news
Ukrainian
Voice of Canada (VOC) | daily news