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	HU OSA 205-4-201
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 201:	The Former Soviet Union Archives

Date(s) 1975-1997

Extent and medium 264 Archival boxes, 33 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

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

Scope and content

The Former Soviet Union Archives were created by the Monitoring staff under the authority of the Information Resources Department of the RFE/RL Research Institute.
After moving to OMRI the new system of arrangement was introduced with English subject codes and some materials relating to events in 1995-1996 were added to the Archives, such as the War in Chechnya, the Elections of 1995, and others.

The series contains news agency releases, newspaper clippings, excerpts from Moscow Radio and TV monitoring and RFE/RL transcripts. It includes information relating to politics, economics, security issues, social life, foreign affairs, culture, religion and the environmental situation of the Russian Federation and other countries of the former Soviet Union (to a lesser extent) after 1991.
The most numerous materials are those covering the period of 1992-1994, while pre-1991 materials are occasional.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged alphabetically by English language subject code, thereunder the folders are arranged alphabetically according to the Russian language alphabet

Language/scripts of material

English, Russian (Principally Russian)

Finding aids

• 264 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (The Environment Church and Religion Human Rights)

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-80-1 Old Code Subject Files, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-2 New Code Subject Files, 1954-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-3 All-Union General Files, 1956-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-4 Commonwealth of Independent States Files, 1990-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-6 New Code Republics Files, 1989-1993
• HU OSA 300-81-1 Subject Files Related to the USSR and the Russian Federation, 1982-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-2 Subject Files Related to Ukraine, 1983-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-5 The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files, 1992-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-202 Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency], 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-207 Ukrainian Monitoring Archives, 1987-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-206 Russian Monitoring Archives, 1986-1999
• HU OSA 205-4-205 Belarus Monitoring Archives, 1992-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-200 Subject Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1993-1994
• HU OSA 205-4-203 The Russian Regional Files, 1992-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-204 Environmental Files, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-209 The Former Soviet Union Media Digest Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1994-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-210 The Former Soviet Union Press Survey, 1995-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Natasha Zanegina and Olga Zaslavskaya; described by Natasha Zanegina, 1998; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, 31 January 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012