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	HU OSA 205-4
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI)
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department

Date(s) 1952-1997 (1989-1997)

Extent and medium

1840 Archival boxes, 230 linear meters
68 Archival card boxes, 21 linear meters
6 VHS, 0.15 linear meters
Total: 252 linear meters

Name of creator(s) Information Services Department

Administrative/Biographical history

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

Scope and content

The Information Services Department's (ISD) functions included providing information to the Analytical Department of the Open Media Research Institute and to support the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasting. For these purposes the ISD run two Archives: East European Archives (EEA) and the SBEA, both in paper and electronic format.
The subfonds represent a comprehensive record of the political, military, cultural and social histories relating to the countries of East, Central and Southeastern Europe.
The EEA Series contains files on topics and personalities as well as monitoring and press survey files for countries in the region excluding Hungary.

The series covering the former Soviet Union countries contain files on topics and personalities drawn mostly from the Russian media, although materials from former Soviet republics are represented as well.
Besides materials collected and filed in the period 1994-1997 the earlier materials that were transferred from the RFE/RL Research Institute (Munich, Germany) are also included as a separate series.
Of particular interest may be a small collection of video materials relating to the elections held in Russia in 1995 and 1996.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 205-4-1 Administrative Files of Jeff Gardner
• HU OSA 205-4-10 Albanian Subject Files, 1970-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-11 Albanian Biographical Files, 1991-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-20 Bulgarian Subject Files, 1951-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-21 Bulgarian Biographical Files from RFE/RL Research Institute, 1971-1975
• HU OSA 205-4-22 Bulgarian Biographical Card Index from RFE/RL Research Institute, 1994-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-23 Tables of Content to the Bulgarain TV and Radio Monitoring from RFE/RL Research Institute, 1983-1984
• HU OSA 205-4-24 Monitoring of Bulgarian Radio and Television, 1995
• HU OSA 205-4-27 Bulgarian Subject Clippings
• HU OSA 205-4-28 Bulgarian Biographical Clippings, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-30 Czechoslovak Biographical Card Files from RFE/RL Research Institute
• HU OSA 205-4-40 Czech Subject Files, 1993-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-50 Slovak Subject Files, 1993-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-53 Press Survey
• HU OSA 205-4-54 Slovak Monitoring (electronic files)
• HU OSA 205-4-56 Slovak Press Survey (electronic files)
• HU OSA 205-4-70 Romanian Subject Files, 1947-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-71 Romanian Subject Card Files, 1955-1994
• HU OSA 205-4-80 Yugoslav Subject Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1950-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-81 Yugoslav Press Survey, 1994-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-90 Bosnia Herzegovina Subject Files, 1992-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-91 Sarajevo Press Review, 1996
• HU OSA 205-4-100 Croatian Subject Files, 1991-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-110 Macedonian Subject Files, 1991-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-111 Macedonian Biographical Files, 1993-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-120 Serbian Subject Files, 1990-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-121 Kosovo Subject files, 1989-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-122 Kosovo Biographical Files, 1993-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-123 Montenegro Subject Files, 1992-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-124 Vojvodina Subject Files, 1992-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-130 Slovenian Subject Files, 1971-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-140 Hungarian Subject Files, 1948-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-200 Subject Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1993-1994
• HU OSA 205-4-201 The Former Soviet Union Archives, 1975-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-202 Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency], 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-203 The Russian Regional Files, 1992-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-204 Environmental Files, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-205 Belarus Monitoring Archives, 1992-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-206 Russian Monitoring Archives, 1986-1999
• HU OSA 205-4-207 Ukrainian Monitoring Archives, 1987-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-208 Media Daily Highlights from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1982-1994
• 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 205-4-211 Russian Radical Press Files, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-212 Electronic Files
• HU OSA 205-4-213 Television Programs Relating to the Elections in Russia in 1995 and 1996, 1995-1996

Language/scripts of material

Mostly English, Russian, Albanian, Belarus, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian and also other languages of the former Soviet Union

Related materials

• HU OSA 300-20 Bulgarian Unit, 1949-1994
• HU OSA 300-30 Czechoslovak Unit, 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-40 Hungarian Unit, 1949-1995
• HU OSA 300-60 Romanian Unit, 1946-1995
• HU OSA 300-80 Soviet Red Archives, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-81 Monitoring Unit, 1979-1995
• HU OSA 300-50 Polish Unit, 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-10 Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files, 1943-1994

Publication note

What Papers Say, Russian Media Monitroing Agency
http://www.wps.ru/index.html

Date(s) of descriptions

Described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 18 August 2003
Online version updated 18 December 2008