NEWSFILE
For further reading on the people and places of Eastern Europe, take a look at these resources from TIME and the Web


WEB RESOURCES ANALYSIS & NEWS
Bellona: Environmental Rights
Highlights pivotal EnviroRight cases in Russia

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Special Reports page includes up-to-date regional reports and topical coverage

Transitions Online
Changes in post-communist societies

RFE/RL Correspondent Andrei Babitsky
Web site of journalist detained by Russians in January 2000

Central Eurasia Project
Resource pages for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan


LINKS ON RUSSIA

Human Rights Watch:
Russian Orphanages

Russia's Robber Barons:
12 men who own Russia

Russian Federation and the IMF

Russia On the Net

Russia Online

Russia in Turmoil

Russia at the End of the 20th Century

Russian Trading System

Welcome to Russia's Weather Server

Russian Elections 1999-2000

Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council

ITAR-TASS: Official news agency of Russia

Moscow City Hall- Russian Only

The Moscow Times

National News Service

 


LINKS ON CHECHNYA

Help Chechnya

Human Rights Watch: Chechnya

Jihad in Chechnya

Oneworld.net Dispatches: Chechynya

Kavkaz-Center, Chechen News Agency (in Russian)

Crisis In the North Caucasus

 


LINKS ON THE BALTICS

Baltic News Service

The Baltics Worldwide -- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

The Baltic Times

 

Latest Reports
TIME Daily

Continuing Coverage
TIME Magazine

Russia Newsfile
News and analysis on Russia and it's struggles as a new democracy

The Balkan File
News, analysis,maps and photo essays on the struggles in Kosovo and throughout the region

 

FROM TIME EUROPE

The Russian Exception
Will democracy ever work in Russia? TIME interviews Professor Dmitry Furman of the CIS Research Center, Moscow

A Lose-Lose Situation
A Russian scholar questions Moscow's motives in fighting a war in Chechnya

Chechnya Diary
TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge spent five days in and around Chechnya's war zaones

 

TIME TRAILS

Chechnya:
A Brief History from the pages of TIME

Russian Democracy:
A largely foreign concept in a land that has known little but autocracy for centuries

 

SPECIALS

Russia Decides:
TIME's guide to Russia's 2000 elections

 

PHOTO ESSAYS

Grozny: Fallen City
Chechnya's capital lies in ruins in the aftermath of the Russian invasion

Company Town
Photography from Norilsk, Russia by Joe McNally

Chernobyl
From 1996, a look at the reactor ten years after the explosion

The Berlin Wall
A Pictorial History

Witness to Madness
French photographer Eric Bouvet traveled incognito to Grozny alongside the Russian Army. These are the pictures he brought back

Terror and Tragedy
A bomb explodes in the heart of Moscow, causing many to point fingers at Chechen separatists

 


MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

Caspian Net

United Nations on Estonia

Presidential Administration of the Republic of Belarus

Belarusian.com Belarus Web Links

The Georgian Times - Biweekly Newspaper

UC Berkeley Program in Soviet & Post Soviet Studies

Center For Nonproliferation Studies

Biological (and Chemical) Weapons Web Resources

NATO Partnership for Peace

The Marshall Plan

Information on Publicly Traded Companies in Eastern Europe

Small Entrepreneurs Tired of Russian Politicians

Stratfor.com and Intelligence Consulting Firm

Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty -- Ukranian Services

Welcome to Novgorod the Great

 

PHOTOGRAPHY RESOURCES

The Photojournalist's Coffee House

National Press Photographers Online

InterFoto: Russian Photo Links

Photographer.ru

Photography of Sovetsky Sakhalin