Sub-Topics 2003 2004 2006 Chechnya Russian Languages Books Russia - Memories of the Russian Court (Atchison) Provides an online book, written in 1923 by Vyrurbova. 6-99 Lists Malaysian Search Engines (Search Engines Worldwide - Takakuwa) Provides over a dozen search engines available in Malaysia. 8-00 Search Engine in Russian and English (Russia on the Net) Searches the Web in either English or Russian. 6-02 Materials -Awesome Library in Russian (Promt) Provides online translations of the Web through the Awesome Library, using Promt's translator. You may, of course, start with a Web page other than the Awesome Library. 7-02 Map of Russia (About.com - Rosenberg) Provides a printable map of the outline of Russia. Pictures of Famous Places (PicturesofPlaces.com) Provides pictures of many of the tourist spots. 5-02 Russian Translation of the Web - Russian Instructions (Promt) Provides online translations of the Web. To view the Web through the Awesome Library, put the URL of the Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/) in the URL box, select "English to Russian," and then select Translate. You will need to have Russian fonts loaded in your browser in order to see the Russian. You may, of course, start with a Web page other than the Awesome Library. 7-02 Russian Translations (LangtoLang.com) Provides translations of words from English to Russian and Russian to English. 7-02 Russian Version of Google Search Engine (Google.com) Provides searches of the Web in Russian. 7-02 News -09-12-07 Putin Replaces Prime Minister (MSNBC News) "President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday replaced his long-serving prime minister with an obscure Cabinet official — a surprise move that could put him in the running to succeed Putin in next year’s presidential election." 09-07 Chechnyan Leader Dies Fighting for Justice (Time.com) "Indeed, [Natalia] Estemirova's determined efforts over the past decade to uncover and document extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances and kidnappings in Chechnya have made her many enemies, including Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's Kremlin-backed president. She had also become a thorn in the side of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who, as former president, had presided over the Second Chechen War, which began in 1999 and ended in 2002." 07-09 Russia News (RussiaJournal.com) Provides news stories. Papers -Editorial: A Blueprint for Preventing Nuclear Terrorism (Time.com) "Today’s terrorists have global reach, so that mission rightly requires a broad international effort. But the United States and Russia possess 95% of the world’s nuclear weapons and most of the world’s weapons-usable nuclear material, and so bear a special responsibility for preventing nuclear terrorism." 03-12 Dedovshchina (Wikipedia.org) "Dedovshchina is the name given to the informal system of subjugation of new junior recruits for the Russian armed services, MVD, and border guards to soldiers of the last year of service. It involves violent (and sometimes fatal) hazing but is not limited to it. It is often cited as a major source of poor morale in the ranks." 8-05 Gulags (Wikipedia.org) "Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration. However, over time, the word "Gulag" has become an acronym and has also come to signify not only the administration of the concentration camps but also the system of Soviet slave labor itself, in all its forms and varieties: labor camps, punishment camps, criminal and political camps, women's camps, children's camps, transit camps. Even more broadly, "Gulag" has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the "meat-grinder": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths." 03-07 Lenin, Vladimir (Lenin Internet Archive) Provides a biographical timeline of the first Chairman of the Soviet government. 5-02 Lenin, Vladimir - Biography (Lenin Internet Archive - Krupsakaya) Provides a detailed biography of the first Chairman of the Soviet government by his life-long companion. 5-02 Lenin, Vladimir - Epitaph (Lenin Internet Archive - Kautsky) Provides a commentary on the life of Lenin by Kautsky, one of his enemies. "When Bismarck stated that the great problems of the time must be resolved by blood and iron, this was also Lenin's view." "Like Bismarck, Lenin also was a master of diplomacy, the art of deceiving his opponents, of surprising them and discovering their weak points, in order to overturn them." 5-02 Marxist Writers and History (Marxists.org) Provides the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, founders of communist philosophy. 3-00 Putin, Vladimir (BBC News - Mulvey) Provides a brief background on how the Prime Minister of Russia came into a position of power. (Also misspelled by visitors as Vlademir, Valademir, Valadamir, Vlademire, Vladamire, or Vladamir.) Russia (About.com - Rosenberg) Provides sources of maps, statistics, the flag, government and military information, and information on the economy. 2-01 Russia (U.S. Library of Congress) Provides a summary of key information on Russia, including politics, geography, education, religion, ethnic groups, crime, economy, history, and more. 7-01 Russia - Putin, Vladimir (BBC News - Mulvey) Provides a brief background on how the Prime Minister of Russia came into a position of power. (Also misspelled by visitors as Vlademir, Valademir, Valadamir, Vlademire, Vladamire, or Vladamir.) Russia Up to 1998 (U.S. Library of Congress) Provides a summary of key information on Russia, including politics, geography, education, religion, ethnic groups, crime, economy, history, and more. 7-01 Russia Up to 2005 (U.S. Library of Congress) Provides a summary of key information on Russia, including politics, geography, education, religion, ethnic groups, crime, economy, history, and more. 7-01 Russia and U.S. Agree to Slash Nuclear Weapons (MSNBC News) "The U.S. and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades Friday, agreeing to slash the former Cold War rivals' warhead arsenals by nearly one-third and talking hopefully of eventually ridding a fearful world of nuclear arms altogether." 03-10 Russian History and Geography (Emulate Me) Provides a history, as well as demographic information on Russia. 11-99

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