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	HU OSA 205-4-207
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 207:	Ukrainian Monitoring Archives

Date(s) 1987-1997

Extent and medium 91 Archival boxes, 11 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 Ukrainian 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 mostly covering the period from 1992 to 1997 while ealier materials are occasional.

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 Ukraine on different topics such as economy, politics, foreign relations, security and armed forces, ecology, religion and other social issues. Of particular interest are files and materials on the state building, government structure and activities, national policy, political parties and movements.

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 English, Russian, Ukrainian

Finding aids

• 91 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-80-1 Old Code Subject Files, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-4 Commonwealth of Independent States Files, 1990-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-7 USSR Biographical Files, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-2 Subject Files Related to Ukraine, 1983-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-3 Monitoring of Ukrainian Radio, 1979-1985
• HU OSA 300-81-4 Soviet Media Digest Files, 1985-1991
• 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 205-4-202 Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency], 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-201 The Former Soviet Union Archives, 1975-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-200 Subject Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1993-1994
• HU OSA 205-3-2 Transitions, 1997-1998
• HU OSA 205-3-1 Transition, 1994-1997
• 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
• HU OSA 205-3-7 OMRI Daily Digest in English, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-9 OMRI Economic Digest, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-10 OMRI Analytical Brief, 1996-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Olga Zaslavskaya, processed by Banyasz Miklos; described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 16 October 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012