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	HU OSA 205-4-205
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 205:	Belarus Monitoring Archives

Date(s) 1992-1997

Extent and medium 26 Archival boxes, 3 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

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

Archival history

After the closure of the Open Media Research Institute in 1994, under the special agreement the files stayed at RFE/RL to support research, publishing and broadcasting.

Due to problems in the transfer procedure from Prague to Budapest the original arrangement of the series was slightly changed. The new system of arrangement reflects the one that was introduced and used both at the archives of the RFE/RL Research Institute and the Open Media Research Institute for filing materials with main entries like Economy, Politics, Security, Social Issues, etc.

Scope and content

The Belarus Monitoring Archives (Subject Files) was started by the staff of the Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Archives at the RFE/RL Research Institute (Munich, Germany) and later continued at the Open Media Research Institute, thus covering the period from 1992 to 1997. Collected materials, consisting mostly of press clippings, news agency releases and TV and radio monitoring, were filed according to English subject codes. Due to transfer procedures the original order was slightly modified at Open Society Archives.

The series comprise information relating to Belarus on different topics such as economy, politics, foreign relations and relations with CIS countries, armed forces and social issues. Of particular interest are files and materials on the state building, government structure and activities, and political movements in Belarus, including files on different parties and alliances.

Within the entry Politics: Public and Political Figures the files on prominent political leaders and activists can be found.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by subject code and thereunder by folder titles according to the English alphabet

Language/scripts of material

Belarusian, English, Russian (Principally Russian and Belarus)

Finding aids

• 26 containers

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 300-81-5 The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files, 1992-1995
• HU OSA 300-81-7 Polish Media on Ukraine and Belarus, 1993-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-201 The Former Soviet Union Archives, 1975-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Miklos Banyazs, 2002; described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 15 October 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012