NIS News On-line

 

Some of the references below are to non-interactive electronic mailing lists--i.e., you can't send messages to other people on the list--others are to Web sites. For example, complete issues of some major Russian newspapers are available for free on the Web. Other Internet sources for electronic news are available through Glasnet which maintains a good collection of links to NIS newspapers on-line www.glasnet.ru/glasweb/gate/media.html. Some of these newspapers are formatted with Cyrillic fonts.

Acid Rain
This is the name of an ecological bulletin produced occasionally by a small environmental organization formed in 1991 in the Lipetsk region. According to this organization, Lipetsk was recently ranked by a Russian reference book, The Towns of Russia, as belonging to a class of catastrophically dirty towns. To receive Acid Rain, send e-mail requesting it to: [email protected]

Baltic News Service
Baltic News Service is an on-line, English-language wire service, similar to Associated Press or Reuters, that covers the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. BNS covers international and domestic government, political, and economic news. It consists of one e-mail message per day, which averages 50-80 kilobytes. BNS also maintains a WWW site that contains contact information, archives of BNS daily reports in Estonian, and archives of other BNS Estonian-language reports, including its daily financial wire service (www.bns.ee/). To subscribe, send the message: "sub bns" to: [email protected] Unlike most electronic mailing lists, when you subscribe you won't receive a confirmation or welcome message. The BNS daily reports will just start arriving in your mailbox.

Belarus Information Service Bulletin
News briefs (in English) published by the Minsk Mass-Media Center in Belarus. The Center was founded by a group of Belarussian journalists who wanted to improve the standards of journalism in their country. Several days worth of news briefs are compiled and e-mailed to subscribers every 3-5 days. The compilations can range in size from 10 to 25 kilobytes. To be added to the distribution list, send a message to the Mass-Media Center in Minsk: [email protected]

Business Law Journal
www.dux.ru/koi8/enpp/newspapers/blj/bljhome.html
A bi-monthly journal which reports on national and local laws and regulations which affect businesses. Available in KOI8 Russian fonts.

Business Petersburg
www.dux.ru/koi8/enpp/newspapers/dp/indexes/dp-160-index.html
A weekly newspaper which reports on business events with a special emphasis on the telecommunications industry. Available in KOI8 Russian fonts.

Economics and Life
www.friends-partners.org/friends/economics/el/Economics.html
Economics and Life is a weekly Russian-language newspaper that reports on business and economics in Russia. The newspaper was founded in 1918 and now has more than 600,000 subscribers. The Internet edition includes articles on tax regulations, banking and finance, insurance, real estate, customs regulations, the stock market, and more. The on-line version is formatted in KOI-8 Cyrillic fonts.

Ecostan News
An English-language monthly bulletin which carries reports on the environment and environmental movements in Central Asia. A good source of information on nongovernmental organizations in the region. Back issues are available online at Friends & Partners (www.friends-partners.org/friends/science/ecostan/ecostan.index.html). To subscribe, send a message to Eric Sievers asking to be added to the list at: [email protected].

Environmental Cooperation Bulletin
A monthly bulletin of environmental activities in Eastern Europe and the NIS compiled by Kompass Resources International in Washington, DC. The Bulletin comes in two parts: "Calendar" and News Briefs." Back issues of the Bulletin are archived at the end month at www.ciesin.ee/OTHER/INFOTERRA/1996/01/maillist.html#00000. To subscribe, send a message asking to be added to the list to: [email protected]

Express Khronika
Express Khronika, first issued in August 1987, is a daily Russian-language bulletin/news service that reports mostly on human/civil rights events and organizations. Express Khronika has a network of correspondents in Russia and the former republics of the USSR. The daily Russian-language edition is free and averages 15 to 25 kilobytes in size. It comes uuencoded. (See the section "Using Cyrillic on the Internet" for more information on how to decode the files.) There is also an English-language weekly summary which costs $30 per year. Archives are available at: www.online.ru/mlists/expchronicle/chronicle-weekly-e/. To subscribe, send a message asking to be added to the list to: [email protected]

The Georgian Profile
Operated under the name, Georgia Chronicle since December 1992 the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development has issued a monthly bulletin in English, reviewing major trends in political, social and economic life of Georgia. It is available by e-mail and international mail, upon request. Send e-mail requests to: [email protected] or visit their Web site for more information: www.armazi.demon.co.uk/profile.html.

Izvestia
win.www.online.ru/providers/rrussica.xhtml

Izvestia, Finansovye Izvestia, Izvestia-Expertiza are no longer available for free on the Izvestia site.

LETA: Latvian Telegraph Agency
Brief daily reports on government, political, and economic news in Latvia. The list consists of one e-mail message a day that averages 10 kilobytes in size. Unlike most other electronic mailing lists, when you subscribe to LETA you won't receive a confirmation or welcome message. The daily reports will just start arriving in your mailbox. To subscribe, send the message: "sub leta" to: [email protected]. Gopher menu of daily LETA bulletins: gopher://gopher.latnet.lv/11/NEWS%20of%20Latvia/LETA%20News%20Agency.

Nezavisimaia gazeta
Summaries and occasionally full articles from this daily Russian-language newspaper Cyrillic fonts are required. www.glas.apc.org/ng/ .

Moscow News Confidential
In mid-1994 Moscow News announced a service of bi-weekly insider reports available by e-mail to subscribers. For more information, a price list, and a sample issue, send an e-mail message to: [email protected]. More information available at: www.online.ru/esamples/mnc-russian-halfyear/.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
www.rferl.org/
For more than forty years RFE/RL has been broadcasting news to the countries of Eastern Europe and the NIS, In December 1995 RFE/RL joined the World Wide Web. Its WWW site includes selections of recent news briefs, plus longer analytical articles. RFE/RL took a brief respite from its duties when its electronic news digest listserv "RFE/RL Newsline" was replaced by OMRI Daily Digest from late 1994 to March 1997 (Archives of these stories can be found on the OMRI site listed above.) But as af April 1997, RFE/RL resurfaced with its "RFE/RL Newsline" news digest. Archives of past issues are available on-line at: www.rferl.org/newsline/. To subscribe, send the message: "subscribe RFERL-L YourFirstName YourLastName" to: [email protected]

Rukh Insider
The Rukh Insider is a bi-monthly news bulletin which carries "in-depth information on political events in Ukraine, including behind-the-scenes coverage of significant current issues, the positions of policy-makers, tactics and strategy information on Ukraine's ongoing political struggle to leave behind its Soviet, communist past." Originally published by the secretariat of Rukh, one of Ukraine's first and largest democratic political parties, The Rukh Insider is now compiled by the Institute of Statehood and Democracy, a non-governmental, non-partisan research and educational institute in Kyiv. Usually it consists of one article and is around 5 kilobytes in size. Recent issues have focused on an in-depth look at the people who comprise the President's administration, the growth and influence of organized crime, and the attempted revival of the Communist Party of Ukraine. To be added to the electronic mail distribution list, send a request to: [email protected]. To get a feel for the publication, archives are available for 1995 at: www.freenet.kiev.ua/ISD/RUKHINSD/tri-indx.htm.

St. Petersburg Press
www.sptimes.ru
An English-language newspaper in St. Petersburg, complete with classifieds, that is published weekly on the Internet.

Update on Ukraine
Ukraine in Numbers
The Council of Advisors in Kyiv provides this service free of charge to those who request it. The Council was set up in 1991 under the leadership of Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn to provide an independent source of information and analysis to legislators in the Ukrainian Rada (parliament)--somewhat on the model of our Congressional Research Service. Update on Ukraine is published electronically monthly. The November 1995 issue, for example, carried news of Ukraine's admission to the Council of Europe, a review of recent progress in privatization, and an interesting analysis of Ukraine's proposed new Constitution, done by legal consultant Ihor Derkach.
The Council's macroeconomic review, Ukraine in Numbers, is available each quarter for free. It comes out on a timely basis (within 2-3 months after the end of a quarter). Other documents are also available for free, if requested by e-mail. These include an English-language translation of the Constitutional Agreement reached in June 1995 between the President and Parliament. The Agreement defines the division of powers in Ukraine, has constitutional authority, and will remain in effect until a new constitution is adopted. Send all requests to: [email protected] You may also contact the Council at fax: (380-44) 296-1360.

UPRESA
gopher://kiev.sovam.com/11/UPRESA
The Ukraina Press Agency and Sovam-Teleport have joined forces to launch the "Ukrainian News Electronic Delivery" project. Part of the project consists of an excellent daily and weekly news service available from a Gopher site in Kyiv. The daily news usually consists of three or four stories about politics, the government, or foreign relations. The weekly news consists of an analytical article, an important public document, such as legislation or official statements, an interview, and a press digest. Each press digest is broken down into sections titled:

Ukrainian Arts Monitor
A weekly bulletin that includes news and announcements of art and cultural events in Ukraine. Back issues are available online (www.ukrainet.lviv.ua/uam/uam.html) in Ukraine, or in the US mirror site through their home page (www.ukrainet.lviv.ua).
To subscribe, send the message: "RFEED 30 ukrainet.eng.uam" to [email protected]

The Ukrainian Financial Monitor
An English language bulletin of Ukrainian Financial matters. Back issues are archived for two years. Will eventually be available in English, Ukrainian and Russian. The Ukrainian site is(www.ukrainet.lviv.ua/ufm/ufm.html), but a US mirror site is also available through their home page (www.ukrainet.lviv.ua).

Ukrainian Weekly
www.ukrweekly.com/
Published by the Ukrainian National Association since 1933, the Ukrainian Weekly has full-time press bureaus in Kyiv and Toronto. The English-language newspaper reports news about Ukraine and Ukrainians around the world.

Vladivostok News
http://vlad.tribnet.com/
Stories from Vladivostok's English-language newspaper, provided by TribWeb, online service of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington.

Last updated:    July 1999

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