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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

• 110 containers

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