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Russian internet resources

A variety of Russian reference & information web sites are presented on this page.

Search Engines

Rambler

Yandex

iGoogle

Russia on the Net
The first Russian web Directory since 1995

Official Russia

Web site of the Russian President
Info is presented on the 2 web sites: http://ïðåçèäåíò.ðô & http://kremlin.ru/

Official V.l. Putin’s web site

Unofficial V.l. Putin’s web site

E-government of Russia

Official Russia
Web site of the Russian Federation administrative bodies

Web site of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Web site of the State Duma of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Government of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication of the Russian Federation

Web site of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

Modern Russia
is an online forum that examines the economic and social modernization of Russia. It provides a space to both identify challenges and focus on the plans and steps underway to meet them. ModernRussia is managed by Ketchum on behalf of the Russian Federation. ModernRussia encourages visitors to participate in our online forum and provide solutions-focused commentary and analysis. ModernRussia is a moderated blog, which means all comments will be reviewed before posting. ModernRussia aims to have comments deemed suitable for publication posted within 48 hours of receipt. Comments deemed offensive to site visitors, or that contain profanity or strong language will not be posted. To have your comment considered for posting, you must be registered with ModernRussia.Comments on ModernRussia are those of their contributors only and do not reflect the opinion of the Government of the Russian Federation or Ketchum.

 

Mass media of Russia

Newspapers

Àðãóìåíòû è ôàêòû

Êîììåðñàíò

Èçâåñòèÿ

Íåçàâèñèìàÿ ãàçåòà

Ðîññèéñêàÿ ãàçåòà
Is a Russian government daily newspaper of record which publishes the official decrees, statements and documents of state bodies. It is à public record of new legislation.

Ìîñêîâñêèé êîìñîìîëåö

Âå÷åðíÿÿ Ìîñêâà

Íîâàÿ ãàçåòà

Âðåìÿ íîâîñòåé

 

Magazines

Ýêñïåðò

Èòîãè

Ïðîôèëü

Êîììåðñàíò-Âëàñòü

Îãîí¸ê

Ðóññêèé Newsweek

Ðóññêèé ðåïîðò¸ð

 

Television

Ïåðâûé êàíàë
The All-Russia TV channel with the widest broadcast area. The Russian government controls 51% of its shares. Its headquarters are in the Technical Center "Ostankino" near the Ostankino Tower, Moscow. It remains the most prosperous of Russian TV channels and has by far the largest budget.. From 1 April 1995 until 1 September 2002 the channel was called ORT (ÎÐÒ—Îáùåñòâåííîå Ðîññèéñêîå Òåëåâèäåíèå, Public Russian Television). It preserved traditional programs and shows of the First Channel of the Soviet Television.

Ðîññèÿ 1
A state-owned Russian television channel founded in 1991. «Ðîññèÿ-1» has the second largest audience in Russian television (75% of urban Russian viewers. ÒV channels «Ðîññèÿ-1» and «Ïåðâûé êàíàë» are similar in their politics, and they compete directly in entertainment. Russia 1 has many regional variations and broadcasts in many languages.

ÒÂ-Öåíòð
A state-owned Russia TV station with the fourth largest coverage area in Russia, after «Ïåðâûé êàíàë», «Ðîññèÿ-1» and NTV. It is owned by the administration of the city of Moscow and is dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of Moscow life.

ÍÒÂ/NTV
A Russian television channel. As a subsidiary of Vladimir Gusinsky's company Media-Most, it was a pioneer in the post-Soviet independent television media, but was later taken over by state-owned Gazprom.

«Êóëüòóðà»
A Russian television network, broadcasting a culturally-oriented material. It belongs to the state-controlled VGTRK group. It started broadcasting on 1 November 1997. Information about the TV-channel, News review. TV-programs. Main focus is on cultural events.

Ðîññèÿ 24
A state-owned round-the-clock (twenty-four-hour) Russian-language news channel from Russia. It covers major national and international events from a Russian perspective and a focus on domestic issues. The channel aspires to give a broad and impartial outline of life in all of Russia’s regions from its European enclave of Kaliningrad to Vladivostok in the Far East.

Russia Today (RT)
A globally broadcast English-language channel from Russia, and the first all-digital Russian TV network It started broadcasting on December 10, 2005 with nearly 100 English-speaking journalists reporting for it worldwide. It is available around the world via cable, satellite, and online free from the RT website.

Ðåí ÒÂ
ÑÒÑ
ÒÍÒ
Ìóç-ÒÂ
Private-owned commercial enrtainment Rissian TV channels.

Ïÿòûé êàíàë
A state-owned TV channel based in St. Petersburg.

 

Radio

Ýõî Ìîñêâû
Round-the-clock radio broadcast of news on political, economic, social and cultural events. Interviews, commentary and surveys. Forums, blogs. On-line broadcast.

Ìàÿê
State-owned information and musical broadcasting station. Forums, blogs. On-line broadcast.

Ãîëîñ Ðîññèè/Voice of Russia
Is the veteran of radio broadcasters. On the air since 29 October 1929, the “Voice of Russia” shapes Russia’s image worldwide and conveys information about Russia and Russian opinions on global events to the world community. The “Voice of Russia” today broadcasts to 160 countries in 38 languages.

 

Russian News Agencies

ÈÒÀÐ-ÒÀÑÑ
The ITAR-TASS News Agency is one of the world's largest international information agencies. The successor to the Soviet TASS news agency, it was re-named in 1992, when Russia proclaimed its sovereignty following the collapse of the USSR. It has retained its status of being the central state information agency.

ÐÈÀ Íîâîñòè
RIA NOVOSTI – is the state-owned News Agency of the Russian Federation.

Èíòåðôàêñ/Interfax
Interfax Group is a leading provider of information in the CIS. Interfax includes about 100 specialized information services, supplying weekly and daily reports with industry analysis, business information, real-time news, market data and ratings and credit reports.

 

New Media

Ñòðàíà.Ru
National information service News and analitical material on various topics in Russian.

ÑÌÈ.ru
Russian mass media on the  Internet. Daily surveys of media material published in Runet.

Lenta.ru
Daily on-line information web-site about Russian and world events.

Ãàçåòà.Ru
Daily web-newspaper publishes news on society, politics, and culture.

Óòðî.Ru
Daily web-newspaper publishes news on social, political and cultural issues, currency rates, weather forcast.

Èíîïðåññà.Ðó
Website of the foreign press. Media material is translated into Russian.

Infox.Ru
Website of new stories on a variety of topics, such as «Íàóêà», «Ñïîðò», «×Ï», «Hi-tech», «Àôèøà», «Àâòî», «Êîøåë¸ê», «Ýêñòðèì».

Geographic maps

Google Earth 3D maps

Map of Russia

Ðàìáëåð «Íà êàðòå»

On-line road map of Moscow and the Moscow region

Web sites of Moscow & St.Petersburg

GoMoscow
A catalogue of trips, transportation, hotels, leisure and entertainment

GoPiter
A catalogue of trips, transportation, hotels, leisure and entertainment

Sightseeing /Tour highlights

Moscow sights

St.Petersburg sights

 

Web excursions

Web excursion around the Moscow Kremlin

Web excursion around the State Duma

Web excursion around Mikhail Bulgakov’s Moscow

Web excursion around the Hermitage

Metro, underground, tube

Moscow metro

St. Petersburg Ìåtro

Theatre & Movie

Afisha.ru.
A catalogue of current movies and cinema theatres in Moscow and St.Petersburg

Theatre bill
This web site presents the repertoire of Moscow theatres and gives abstracts of theatre performances

 

Museums

Museums of Moscow

Museums of St.Petersburg

 

Universities, institutes & colleges

Educational institutions in Moscow

Universities in Moscow

Educational institutions in St.Petersburg

Universities in St.Petersburg

 

Hotels

Hotels in Moscow

Hotels in St.Petersburg

 

Shopping

Shops and stores in Moscow

Shops and stores in St.Petersburg

Merchandize catalogue and prices in the Russian online shops

 

Russian Language Reference & Information Services

Gramota.ru

Pusskoje slovo

 

On-line Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

Multitran
On-line multilingual dictionary

On-line multilingual dictionary on Rambler.ru

On-line Russian dictionaries on Yandex.ru
Dictionary of the Russian language: Phraseological dictionary.Etymological dictionary. Dictionary of synonyms.Dictionary of antonyms

On-line Russian language reference dictionaries

On-line Russian biographical dictionary

RusWord
On-line Russian language reference web site

Dictionary of Russian language abbreviations

Vladimir Dahl’s Dictionary of t Great Russian Language

Etymological dictionary of the Russian Language

D. Oushakov’s Dictionary of the Russian Language

Rubricon
On-line encyclopaedias, dictionaries, reference books

Krugosvet
On-line encyclopedia from “Russia on-line”

Lib.Ru
Maksim Moshkov's on-line library

On-line Russian libraries and Russian-language books

Megabook.ru
Collection of on-line encyclopaedias

On-line Russian keyboard

Russian keyboard from Yandex.ru

Phonetic Russian keyboard

AZERTY
Russian keyboard for French Language speakers

QWERTZ
Russian keyboard for German language speakers

 

  


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