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	HU OSA 300-81
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 81:	Monitoring Unit

Date(s) 1979-1995

Extent and medium

370 Archival boxes, 46 linear meters
1 Audio cassette, 0.02 linear meters
8 SDLT I, 0.27 linear meters
268 VHS, 7 linear meters
Total: 53 linear meters

Name of creator(s) Monitoring Unit

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 300-81C Monitoring Unit

Scope and content

The subfonds consists of textual and video materials relating to the economic, political, social and cultural issues in the USSR and, after its collapse, in the former Soviet Union countries and the Baltic States. Some East European press materials are included as well.

The textual part consists mostly of bulletins compiled in 1979-1992 by RFE/RL Monitoring Unit on daily basis. They contain transcripts of major news and special programs on radio and TV, news agencies' materials and clippings from the central and regional press.
After 1992 the monitoring was performed on a contract basis. Materials were sent by in-country contractors from Moscow, Kiev, Minsk and Riga electronically or by fax, and by special courier from the countries of Central Asia and Transcaucasia.
Monitoring materials were filed by countries, thereunder chronologically, and also by subject.
The visual records consist of videotapes of Moscow TV news and other selected programs.
Electronic records have been transferred to Prague along with Belarus, Russian and Ukrainian Monitoring Archives to support broadcasting at RFE/RL and reserch by OMRI analysts, and included into HU OSA 205 fonds.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 300-81-1 Subject Files Related to the USSR and the Russian Federation, 1982-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-2 Subject Files Related to Ukraine, 1983-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-3 Monitoring of Ukrainian Radio, 1979-1985
• HU OSA 300-81-4 Soviet Media Digest Files, 1985-1991
• HU OSA 300-81-5 The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files, 1992-1995
• HU OSA 300-81-6 Russian Media on East Europe Including Baltic States, 1992
• HU OSA 300-81-7 Polish Media on Ukraine and Belarus, 1993-1995
• HU OSA 300-81-8 Television Schedules of Russian Television
• HU OSA 300-81-9 Video Recordings of Moscow Television Program, 1985-1994

Language/scripts of material

Belarusian, English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian (Principally Russian, Ukrainian and other major languages of the region)

Finding aids

• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available.

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205-4 Information Services Department, 1952-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 4 January 2002
Online version updated 21 January 2010