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	HU OSA 205-4-210
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 210:	The Former Soviet Union Press Survey

Date(s) 1995-1997

Extent and medium 166 Archival boxes, 21 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

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

Scope and content

The series contains clippings from periodicals published in the following countries of the former Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and also in the republics of the Russian Federation - Bashkortostan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, South Ossetia, Tatarstan, and Georgia - Abkhazia.

These materials were prepared by several agencies contracted by OMRI in Latvia, Belarus (Runy News Agency), Ukraine (UNIAR), and the Russian Federation (What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency).
The series comprises a set of bulletins up to 30 pages in length, faxed on a daily or weekly basis and filed by the Monitoring Unit.

The first four boxes contain tables of contents for most of the issues included in the files.

These clippings were supposed to reflect the reactions of the national (or local) media to the most important events of local, national and international significance. In this capacity they represented a variety of viewpoints, complementing one another and providing all together a complex picture of the whole region. Of particular interest are clippings in national languages from the republics of Caucasus and Central Asia.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by the countries' names in English alphabet, thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material

Abkhazian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek

Finding aids

• 166 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-81-5 The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files, 1992-1995
• 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 205-4-201 The Former Soviet Union Archives, 1975-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-209 The Former Soviet Union Media Digest Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1994-1995

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