Useful Websites

This is a link to the Directory of Internet Resources of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It contains links to selected resources on the region, chosen to support the School’s teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. http://www.ssees.ac.uk/dirctory.htm

Capitals of Russia

Find out more about Moscow at:
http://www.mos.ru

And more about St. Petersburg at:
http://www.300spb.ru
http://www.gov.spb.ru

Practice your Russian while touring their most famous galleries:
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org
http://www.tretyakov.ru

And then go round Russia's most famous site of all:
http://www.moscowkremlin.ru

Recent events in Russia’s past and the people involved:

Accounts of some of the crises in Russia in the 90s can be found at:
http://www.nns.ru/archive

Detailed biographies of all the people who shaped Russia recent history, including Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and many, many more are at a fascinating site:
http://www.nns.ru/ssi/persons.cgi