Russian and Eurasian Databases
East View's Universal Databases™
East View is a leader in providing Russian and other FSU publications online in full-text, searchable format for a wide variety of organizations. As the largest provider of credible, in-depth information on Russia and the former Soviet Union, East View offers an innovative approach to electronic research. We maintain redundant hosted environments for this content in Minneapolis and Moscow on our Universal Database™ platform (UDB). To access these resources or to inquire about a trial, please go to our Online Database access portal.
Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM)
Comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. Official sources, independent media and partisan publications are all represented on this database, thus offering a wide array of opinions and perspectives. Several English-language newspapers including The Moscow Times, widely read by the international community in the Russian capital, are included.
Russian Military and Security Periodicals (UDB-MIL)
Database of over 40 Russian military publications. Extraordinarily broad range of military texts, including central military journals and regional military district newspapers in all major strategic areas.
Library and Information Sciences (UDB-LIB)
Contains current and archived materials from library journals published in all corners of Russia: from Moscow to the former capital St. Petersburg, to the Far East. A gem of the collection, Otechestvennye arkhivy (National Archives) represents Russian archival institutions. Muzei (Museum) supports the collections thematic line of cultural preservation.
Russian Government and Parliamentary Publications (UDB-GOV)
Comprehensive collection of publications from the Russian Duma. Includes stenographic records of Duma hearings, draft laws, vote results, official resolutions, and decrees. Official reports on parliamentary investigations and audits.
Social Sciences and Humanities (UDB-EDU)
Contains fiction literature as well as editions of scientific character - on sociology, philosophy, history, economy, pedagogics, politology, and law. The humanitarian periodicals are let out by different publishing houses and editorials, mostly by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Regional Russian Newspapers (UDB-REG)
Close-up coverage of developments throughout Russia. This database currently includes about 80 regional newspapers plus newspapers dealing with local issues of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Researchers can use this database to quickly access a variety of local news, as well as trace local reactions to national and international events.
Medicine and Public Health (UDB-MED)
Numerous medical and health publishers are at the core of this database. The research covers such problems as public health, infectious diseases, general practice, pharmacology, pediatrics, nursing, skin diseases and more.
Baltic Publications (UDB-BAL)
This database pulls together the most widely read Russian-language newspapers in Estonia and Lithuania, a leading newspaper in the Baltic region devoted to business and economic matters, and the only pan-Baltic English language newspaper in the region. The database is comprehensive, timely and provides in-depth coverage on current affairs, economic development, banking and finance, culture, and science. Particular attention is devoted to ethnic issues.
Publications from the Caucasus (UDB-CAU)
Now more than ever, monitoring today’s news in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia demands immediate access to a wide range of important publications. UDB-CAU offers a rich collection of authoritative periodicals in Russian and English.
Publications from Central Asia (UDB-CAS)
Authoritative Russian and English edition of newspapers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are served from this easy-to-use database. UDB-CAS covers topics on economics, culture and leisure, official legislation, points of view from the opposition, business and investment.
Russia/FSU Newswires (UDB-NEWS)
Includes several outstanding sources to follow the day-to-day developments in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, from ITAR-TASS to the daily newswire AP-Blitz produced by the Tajikistan-based information powerhouse Asia-Plus.
Ukrainian Publications (UDB-UKR)
The world's only online database devoted exclusively to newspapers, journals and bibliographic titles published in Ukraine. It's robust capabilities allow users to search in Ukrainian, Russian or English across dozens of titles available exclusively from East View.
Statistical Publications (UDB-STAT)
Designed to optimize searching and browsing of statistical data, database covers publications, reports and data sets from State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Features searching within reports, tables and graphs, transliteration option, tables of contents in English, and much more.
2002 All-Russian Population Census (UDB-CENSUS)
Originally in Russian, East View has translated into English this exhaustive demographic snapshot of post-Soviet Russia and making it available online. The 2002 All-Russian Population Census may be subscribed to as a separate resource or as a part of East View’s Universal Database of Russian/CIS Statistical Publications.
Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB)
East View and the Book Chamber of the Russian Federation now offers access the most comprehensive bibliographic database in Russia. Based on more than 50 years of information collection, search by subject (using Russian subject heading system: UDK), author, geographic indexes, source, type of publication, and time period. The library-oriented interface provides easy access to current and archival issues.
Online Archives and Complete Collections
Coming Soon! Pravda Digital Archive. Sign up for our webinar on March 22.
International Affairs Complete Collection
AAASS NewsNet Digital Archive
Argumenty i Fakty Digital Archive
The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press Digital Archive
Voprosy istorii
Vestnik Evropy
Voprosy literatury
East View also offers the following resources from Russia:
KODEKS: Russian Legislation
Major source for Russian legislation comprising hundreds of thousands of documents going back to 1991 with legislative acts issued by approximately 200 executive, legislative and judiciary bodies in Russia.
LABYRINTH
Labyrinth provides 25,000 biographies of Russian politicians, officials and business people. Includes descriptions and guides to all federal government bodies, administrative units of the Russian Federation, major businesses, political organizations and federal elections at all levels. Labyrinth is used by the top agencies of the Russian Federation, embassies, researchers and scholars of contemporary Russian politics as well as mass media, banks and insurance companies.
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