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	HU OSA 205-4-20
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 20:	Bulgarian Subject Files

Date(s) 1951-1997 (1990-1996)

Extent and medium 142 Archival boxes, 18 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 205C Open Media Research Institute
• HU OSA 205-4C Information Services Department

Scope and content

The series includes extensive information related to economy, politics, culture, ecology, security and social issues in Bulgaria mostly in the period from 1990 to 1997. Of particular interest are the files on mass media, including RFE/RL activities, environment and nuclear power, minorities and and nationalism. The files cover developments in the economy and state building in the transition period with special focus on human rights, international organizations and activities of different parties, political movements and organizations in Bulgaria after the collapse of communist regime.
Some of the material dates back to the earlier period as parts of them were transferred from the RFE/RL Research Institute East European Archives to support the activity of the newly organized institution in Prague.

The series contains news agency releases, excerpts of RFE/RL Research Reports, transcripts of monitoring of the Bulgarian National Radio and Television, newspaper clippings and copies of articles from scientific publications.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by subject code according to the Latin aphabet and thereunder chronologically. Most of the subject entries have subheadings and some of them, for example, Politics: Foreign Relations and Politics: Political Parties -- due both to the specificity of the field they cover and to the numerous files -- are arranged alphabetically by geographical name or name of the party within the subject code and thereunder chronologically.

Language/scripts of material

Bulgarian, English, French, German (Mostly Bulgarian and English)

Finding aids

• 142 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-20-1 Subject Files, 1949-1994
• HU OSA 300-20-2 Subject Card Files, 1951-1992
• HU OSA 300-20-3 Biographical Files, 1969-1971
• HU OSA 300-20-4 Monitoring, 1982-1994
• HU OSA 300-20-5 Foreign and Bulgarian Monitoring, 1988-1990
• HU OSA 300-20-6 Press Survey in English, 1957-1971
• HU OSA 300-20-7 Press Survey, 1989-1993
• HU OSA 300-20-8 Telephone Interviews, 1989-1990
• HU OSA 205-4-24 Monitoring of Bulgarian Radio and Television, 1995
• HU OSA 205-4-23 Tables of Content to the Bulgarain TV and Radio Monitoring from RFE/RL Research Institute, 1983-1984
• HU OSA 205-4-21 Bulgarian Biographical Files from RFE/RL Research Institute, 1971-1975
• HU OSA 205-4-22 Bulgarian Biographical Card Index from RFE/RL Research Institute, 1994-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-2 Transitions, 1997-1998
• HU OSA 205-3-1 Transition, 1994-1997
• HU OSA 300-8-6 Bulgarian Report, 1951-1957
• HU OSA 300-8-13 East Europe, 1957-1970
• HU OSA 300-8-31 Report on Eastern Europe: Weekly Reports on Events, 1990-1991
• HU OSA 300-8-32 Report on Eastern Europe, 1990-1991
• HU OSA 300-8-41 Research Bulletin, 1976-1988
• HU OSA 300-8-44 RFE/RL Research Report, 1992-1994
• HU OSA 300-8-45 RFE Studies
• HU OSA 205-3-4 RFE/RL Research Reports, 1992-1993
• HU OSA 205-3-7 OMRI Daily Digest in English, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-10 OMRI Analytical Brief, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-11 Pursuing Balkan Peace, 1996-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 26 September 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012