Russian/Links

While there are many useful websites here, this is by no means an exhaustive list. Rather, this list is a beginning step for you to navigate the web for information on Russia, Russian, Russian culture and history.

Art

http://art.net/~stalker/

http://www.museum.ru/Paintings/default.html

Books/Video/Newspapers/Journals

http://www.russiaonline.com

http://www.znaniebookstore.com

Dictionaries 

(be careful not to completely rely on what you read, since context matters)

http://www.multitran.ru/

http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=default1&SHL=1&HL=2

http://www.lingvo.ru/lingvo/translate.asp

http://russian.dmll.cornell.edu/rdt (detailed definitions, many word forms)

Encyclopedias

http://www.krugosvet.ru/

http://www.rubricon.ru

Films/Videos/DVDs

http://www.kniga.com

http://www.RussianDVD.com

Fonts 

(We suggest you look for a transliterated or phonetic font – so that most letters from your keyboard are the same – that is, when you see D on your keyboard, and you type in Cyrillic, you get Д)

http://www.aatseel.org/fonts

General Sites

http://www.albany.edu/faculty/lubensky/

(This has a comprehensive list of websites ranging from search engines, dictionaries, encyclopedias, to radio stations, journals, jobs, tests and quizzes.)

Grammar Information (and some with exercises)

http://masterrussian.com

(grammar, word of the day, quizzes, exercises, vocabulary)

http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sli/russian/1/charts.html

(grammar chards, declension charts, spelling rules)

http://russianmentor.net/

(online Russian tutor, language, culture (in English, etc)

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/language/index.html

(cases, grammar, verbs, exercises)

http://www.languageguide.org/

(audio of common word items – spelling and sound)

http://www.russnet.org

(reading and listening modules)

http://russian.dmll.cornell.edu

(Russian language program at Cornell)

http://www.vor.ru/lessons/rl.html

(Russian language lessons)

http://www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu/rails/

(Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series)

List of Russian Newspapers and Journals

http://www.friends-partners.org/lit/koi/gazeti.html

http://www.friends-partners.org/lit/koi/zurnali.html

History

http://www.bucknell.edu/x20136.xml

News from Russia – in English

http://english.pravda.ru/

http://www.russiajournal.com/

http://www.sptimes.ru

http://www.themoscowtimes.com

http://www.russiatoday.com

News from Russian – in Russian

http://www.pravda.ru

http://www.russianembassy.org (Russian and/or English)

http://www.aif.ru

http://www.gazeta.ru

http://www.lenta.ru

http://www.rian.ru

http://www.fsb.ru

http://www.ng.ru

http://www.novosti.vl.ru

ttp://www.vesti.ru

Organizations

(good for information about the field of Slavic/Russian studies; job opportunities; what is happening in Russian study around the country)

http://www.aatseel.org

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass

http://www.americancouncils.org

http://www.loyola.edu/AWSS

Search Engines

http://www.list.ru

http://www.ru

http://www.diamondteam.ru/catalog

Sports

http://www.sport-express.ru

Travel

http://gorussia.miningco.com/travel/gorussia

http://www.mos.ru/intermap

http://www.spb.ru