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HU OSA 300-81-4 Fonds 300: Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute Subfonds 81: Monitoring Unit Series 4: Soviet Media Digest Files Date(s) 1985-1991
Extent and medium 110 Archival boxes, 14 linear meters
Name of creator(s) Monitroing Unit
Administrative/Biographical history
- HU OSA 300-81C Monitoring Unit
Scope and content
The series contain 30-40-page bulletins under the following titles: Baltic Press Digest, Soviet Media Daily Digest, Ukraine Today and USSR Today. The bulletins contain press clippings from the central and republic press, news agency releases, transcripts of radio and TV programs. In 1985-1987 some of the Ukrainian monitoring issues were included in the “USSR Today" bulletins.
Besides the tables of contents in Russian, Media Daily Highlights in English were included in bulletins from 1985-1988.
The series covers different economic, political, social and cultural issues and main events in the USSR as a whole and in the republics in particular. Materials on foreign affairs and events regarding other countries also can be found. Some of bulletins were compiled by topics - Ecology, National Problems, and Soviet Army.Accruals Not expected
System of arrangement
- Arranged geographically and thereunder chronologically
Language/scripts of material
English, Russian, Ukrainian (Principally Russian)Finding aids
Related units of description
- HU OSA 300-81-5 The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files, 1992-1995
Date(s) of descriptions
Processed and described by Olga Zaslavskaya, April 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012
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