Resources
Russian Resources at Pomona
Pomona Russian Club
The Oldenborg Center
Students living in Russian hall at Oldenborg can immerse themselves in Russian.
Speak Russian over lunch at Oldenborg Monday-Friday!
Speak Russian with the Russian language resident!
Oldenborg also sponsors several Russia-related talks at their International Relations Colloquium every year.
Study Abroad in Moscow or St. Petersburg!
Pomona Study Abroad Office
Pomona Programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Russian Resources at the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges
Extensive book holdings on Russia and Russian and Eastern European Studies.
Russia-related special collections.
Access to all major Russian periodicals, including the Eastview Database.
(Eastview links to all sorts of Russian-language publications, but also English-language publications like The Moscow Times, Moscow News, New Times, The Russian Journal, The Far Eastern Affairs, Russia in Global Affairs and a few more. If you have trouble accessing EastView from this site, go to Honnold Library’s Databases, and try from there.)
Additional Resources
Russian Media
The Moscow Times (in English)
The St. Petersburg Times (in English)
Gazeta.ru (Russia’s leading online publication; in Russian)
English version: http://www.gazeta.ru/english
Kommersant (Russia’s elite newspaper with more reliable news reporting and analysis; in Russian)
Interfax News Service (in Russian)
ARI.ru – (News Commentary from a Russian nationalist perspective; in Russian)
BBC news (news with an international bent; in English)
BBC Russian Service (BBC news in Russian; can be useful to to read English and Russian articles side by side)
Russian Language and Culture
Why Study Russian? — Thoughts from AATSEEL (the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages)
Cyrillic fonts page to help you Russify your computer.
Robert Beard’s On-line Russian Reference Grammar
Russian food/cuisine
Sophie Lubensky’s Russian Resources Site
