East View Information Services, the world's leading provider of information products and services from Russia/NIS, Eurasia and China, has added Robert E. Lee to its management team as Online Publishing Director.

Robert Lee has developed microform and electronic collections from newspapers, journals and research collections for academic libraries in the United States and international markets. He was Director of Publishing at ProQuest Information and Learning Company's UMI Division. Among his accomplishments there is the landmark Archives of the Communist Party and Soviet State microfilming project in conjunction with the Hoover Institution-the largest private/public microform collaboration in history.

"We have found the perfect combination of international content development specialist and business leader in Robert Lee," said Kent Lee, East View's President and CEO, "He has worked in all the markets we serve and then some. His fluency in Russian, German, Polish and English will serve our organization-and our customers-extremely well."

Robert Lee said, "I have long admired East View's track record as a dynamic innovator in providing customers quality information solutions for international content. I am extremely proud to offer my contributions to further develop East View's outstanding platform and expanded East View's products to meet the rapidly evolving needs of researchers."

Robert Lee earned a B.A. in Russian from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master of Arts in Russian Translation from Columbia University.

Additional international accomplishments are his roles as researcher and translator for the 1999 Pulitzer-awarded book, Vera (Mrs. Nabokov), biography of renowned author Vladimir Nabokov's wife, and consultant in the development of Russia's Mail.ru web-based e-mail portal, which still enjoys the largest audience of any Russian web-mail service.

About East View Information Services
East View Information Services began business in 1989 and has become the world's leader in providing high-quality information services from Russia and the Newly Independent States.

East View serves a wide range of organizations from individual researchers to academic libraries and intelligence agencies, private, military and administrative. Opening the door to information sources, providing up-to-the-minute news on current events, and the changing political winds around the world, continues to be East View's distinguishing service.

East View also offers a wide and deep collection of cultural background and historical information that was previously obscure in Western nations. Researchers rely on East View for information updates on new legislation and draft legislation, for elusive market data or financial figures, or for official standards, industry directories or advertising opportunities in foreign media.

Since 2002, East View added one of the world's largest digital libraries of Chinese information, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure produced at Beijing prestigious Tsinghua University to its offering.

East View is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with offices in Russia, Ukraine and The Netherlands. With over 120 employees East View has developed a reliable and extensive acquisition network capable of satisfying the most sophisticated (as well as simple) information needs.