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	HU OSA 205-4-203
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 203:	The Russian Regional Files

Date(s) 1992-1997

Extent and medium 36 Archival boxes, 5 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

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

Scope and content

The Regional Files were created by Silja Haas, a staff member of Information Services Department at OMRI, between the second half of 1995 and the beginning of 1997 with the purpose of providing information about the regions of the Russian Federation to OMRI analysts and RFE/RL.

The series comprise information about the Russian regions, their politics, economics, social life, culture and environmental problems. Of particular interest are the files relating to regional elections and development of new regional elite.

The files contain clippings from the Russian press - both central and regional, news agency releases, Moscow radio and TV monitoring excerpts.

The Regional Files cover the period from the second half of 1995 until the first two months of 1997. Earlier materials are occasional. The files related to the Chechnya war were included in the Former Soviet Union Archives (HU OSA 205-4-201).

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by a numerical subject code (mostly on region to region base), thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material Russian

Finding aids

• 36 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205-4-206 Russian Monitoring Archives, 1986-1999
• HU OSA 205-4-201 The Former Soviet Union Archives, 1975-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-210 The Former Soviet Union Press Survey, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-8 OMRI Daily Digest in Russian, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-13 OMRI Special Report: Russian Duma Election Survey, 1995
• HU OSA 205-3-12 OMRI Russian Regional Report, 1996-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

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