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	HU OSA 300-81-5
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 81:	Monitoring Unit
Series 5:	The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files

Date(s) 1992-1995

Extent and medium 158 Archival boxes, 20 linear meters

Name of creator(s) Monitoring Unit

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 300-81C Monitoring Unit

Scope and content

The series is the continuation of the series HU OSA 300-81-4 and consists of 40-50-page bulletins under different titles that reflect changes connected to the formation of new independent states in the territory of the former Soviet Union. The set of bulletins "The Baltic States Today", "Belarus Today", "The Caucasus and Transcaucasia", "Central Asia and Kazakhstan", "CIS Today" (later changed into "Russia and CIS Today"), "Latvia Today", "Moldova and Dniester Region", "Ukraine Today" were compiled on a daily basis by the Monitoring Unit and, after is dissolution, by information agencies from Moscow, Minsk, Kiev and Riga.

The bulletins contain clippings from the national press, news agencies materials and also transcripts of TV and radio programs. Each bulletin contains a table of contents in Russian or in English.

The materials cover a wide range of topics regarding economy, foreign policy and relations within the CIS and with Western countries, and other political, social and culture-related issues.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged alphabetically according to the names of the countries and thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material

English, Russian, Ukrainian (Principally languages of the countries of the former Soviet Union)

Finding aids

• 158 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205 Records of the Open Media Research Institute, 1952-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Olga Zaslavskaya, April 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012