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Slavonic Studies

 

Online resources in Russian Studies

The following list of links is not intended to be definitive or comprehensive, but it may act as a starting point in your use of the web, and provide ready access to some of the more useful web reources. The inclusion of a link here does not imply any endorsement by the ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ.

To help keep the lists both useful and up to date, please submit, with suitable annotations, links likely to be of interest to other Faculty members. You can email call@cam.ac.uk.

This page was fully revised by Joanne Chapter.

Search Engines

  • - Comprehensive directory of Russian links

Information Servers

  • Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources
  • Paul Gorodyansky
  • KOI-8
  • - The Russian Federation administrative bodies
  • - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
  • - Russian Consulate in London
  • , University of Texas at Austin
  • - Federal Tourism Agency of the Russian Federation
  • - General and travel information
  • - Great Britain - Russia Society
  • - Detailed information for the visitor and foreign resident
  • - Visa service
  • - The virtual community for English-speaking expats and Russians
  • - Moscow homestays
  • - ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµstays in Russia & CIS
  • - Moscow life

Language

  • - On-line dictionary
  • Comprehensive Russian language learning resource written by Dr. Julia Rochtchina, University of Victoria, Canada

Literature and Culture

  • - Links for many 19th century Russian authors
  • at James Madison University
  • hosted at Middlebury College
  • University of Bristol
  • - On-line shop - books, films, etc.
  • - Russian books worldwide

Mailing lists

  • - the Linguist List for information on Slavic and Eastern European languages and literature. You can find archives of material on this list

Maps

Media

  • - Russian News & Information Agency Novosti (RIA Novosti)
  • - Voice of Russia - Russian State Broadcasting Company

Newspapers

  • - Russian popular on-line newspaper
Radio & Audio
  • Listenlive.eu's
  • - St Petersburg local radio
Television, Film & Video
  • (Comprehensive)

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Slavonic News

What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?

2 July 2025

Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

15 June 2025

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...