Note: As of the fall 2003 this page will be updated only to provide links to useful collections of links for Russian studies. The older material will be left for some time time but will eventually be phased out.
Slavic Studies Research Center
European and Non-European Languages on the Net. A Survey of Problems and Solutions. The title about says it all.
SovInformBureau: Russify Everything.
Welkya-Cyrillic: is a site devoted to Cyrillic in general, not just Russian.
Alex Lane's Corner of Texas Provides information on conversion of Cyrillic files between a Mac and a PC using Perl. Also provides a phonetic keyboard layout for Win95.
Matvey Palchuk's server dedicated to the Russification of the Macintosh An extremely useful site for those interested in configuring a Macintosh for reading, typing and printing Cyrillic. Also provides valuable information on configuring Internet applications to read Cyrillic.
Ukrainianization of the Macintosh Although this site is directed at Ukrainianization, it is quite useful for those wishing to Russify their Macs.
Apple Computer, IMC Russia provides the software cRussify for setting up a Mac for Cyrillic.
WWW and Cyrillic A useful site detailing how to configure your web browser to read Cyrillic. Mostly deals with non-Mac systems.
Unicode Home Page Someday Unicode will put an end to the nightmare we now how with various encodings of foreign alphabets. In the meantime, you can check on the progress of the Unicode Consortium.
The WWW Virtual Library by REESWeb at University of Pittsburgh. A wonderful collection of annotated links to various resources for Russian and East European studies. Links range from software resources to information on business, history, language and literature, etc.
REENIC-Russian and East European Network Information Center. Another valuable collection of materials and links for the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Bobst Library Slavic Studies Resources.
Russian Studies on the Web. Roman Leibov's site which contains inks to home pages of departments teaching Slavic and East European languages.
The Human Languages Page A useful collection of links to the study of human languages.
Russian-English Dictionary of the Human Body.
Traveler's Yellow Pages: A Yellow Pages for St. Petersburg, Russia. Handbook and guide with 9,000 addresses, telephone #s, faxes, hours, and descriptions for restaurants, hotels, art galleries, museums, business services, government and 500 more categories many with essays. Updated regularly.
Socium: Russian Connection Infoservices
The Voice of Russia. Provides services in both Russian and English.
RBC. Encoding is Windows 1251.
RUSPEAK-L Send subscription message to listproc@usc.edu. The following is RUSPEAK's self-description: "The purpose of RUSPEAK-L is business and leisure information exchange, discussion of the issues that are of interest to students and young professionals from Russia. RUSPEAK-L is also for those who have friends in Russia or speak Russian, and those who are willing to listen and to share what they have to say. RUSPEAK-L enables its subscribers to distribute mail to all users currently subscribed to that list."
RUSTEX-L Send a subscription message to LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. A group devoted to discussing Cyrillic text processing. Can get very technical but does provide lots of useful information.
SEELangs Send subscription message to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.The Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures list. Mostly used by scholars and teachers, but a good place to post a question.
Johnson's Russia List. This is not a true listserver, but is a moderated list devoted to current events. This is an excellent list of articles and discussions devoted to Russia. But beware: the volume is very large and it takes a lot of time to read it all. Contact davidjohnson@erols.com to join.
SAPE: Soviet-American Penfriend Exchange
RUFORS: Russian UFO Research Station