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HU OSA 205-4-202
Fonds 205: Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4: Information Services Department
Series 202: Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency]

Date(s) 1995-1997

Extent and medium 114 Archival boxes, 14 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

Scope and content

First contracted by RFE/RL Research Institute (Munich, Germany) in 1992, WPS (What Paper Say, News Information Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation) continued providing information support to Open Media Research Institute (Prague, Czech Republic) from 1995 until the beginning of 1997.

Its services included preparing daily press surveys and special issues based on weekly and biweekly publications. Besides this several topical digests were prepared and sent electronically. The list of digests was constantly changing, though the major topics of interest remained the same: the political situation, national problems, and the economic conditions of the Russian federation. The entry The Former Soviet Union Republics in the Mass Media reflect problems of other FSU countries than Russia as seen from Russia.
Of particular interest are files on National Policy and Political Extremism, Parties and Public Organizations in the Russian Federation, Ethnic Problems in the FSU Republics.

The first two boxes contain tables of contents for some of the issues included in the files.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

Language/scripts of material Russian

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Processed and described by Natasha Zanegina, 1998; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, 28 January 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012
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