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Federal Institutions

Official Russia - the Web-site of the Russian Federation administrative bodies (eng. page)
Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) - the main bank of Russia (eng. page): Goskomstat - Russian Federal Statistics Agency (rus-eng)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia - official site (eng. version)
Ministry of Science and Technology (rus-eng)

Financial information

RosBusinessConsulting - the most popular in Russia source of financial information
RTS, Russian Trading System (rus-eng)

Currency Exchanges

Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange
Russian Exchange
Siberian Interbank Currency Exchange
St. Petersburg Currency Exchange

Stock Exchanges

Moscow Stock Exchange
Russian Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange St. Petersburg

Science and Technology Information

FREEnet Web - Russian academic and research network (eng-rus)
ICSTI - International Center for Scientific and Technical Information (eng. page)
The Institute for the Economy in Transition - TOC - Egor Gaidar's institute (English)
The NSU Centre for New Information Technologies - the Information Centre of the Novosibirsk State University (English)
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Foundation for Basic Research - a self-governing State organization whose primary goal is to support the most promising research initiatives in all fields of fundamental science on the competitive basis, without any departmental restrictions

Education

Informika - a directory of institutes of higher education in Russia
Moscow State University - the main webserver of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the most prominent university of Russia (English)
Novosibirsk State University (NSU) - the main university of Siberia (English)
St. Petersburg State Technical University

Mass media

News agencies and servers

Allnews.Ru - Russian news server, an English version of the popular Russian online daily Lenta.ru (English)
Federal News Service (English)
Interfax News Agency - news and other services (English)
ITAR-TASS - the most famous Russian news agency, provides news and other services, full text articles only after payment (English)
Internews Russia - news, analysis, selected laws (full text and in English)
National News Service (English page)
RIA-Novosti - services only for payment (eng-rus)
Federal News Service (English)
National News Service (English)
WPS - Russian Media Monitoring Agency (English)

Newspapers and magazines

Eastview Database of Russian Newspapers
Fireside Reading - Russian-American Literary Magazine for Women (English and Russian)
"Kommentarii" Magazine (English and Russian)
Moscow News (English and Russian)
Moscow Times (in English, information for people who do not speak Russian)
Russian Story: Periodicals - comprehensive list of Russian newspapers with options to get selected articles or subscribe newspapers (English)
The St.Petersburg Press - English-language daily published in St. Petersburg
St Petersburg Times - daily information about economics and politics in Russia (English)
Vladivostok News - Far Eastern Region information (English and Russian)

Television and radio

ORT - the Public Russian Television
NTV International - the first independent Russian TV-station
NTV Plus- a satellite version of the NTV
The Voice of Russia - a Russian radio station broadcasting in foreign languages (English included)

Society and Culture

Directory of Museums, Galleries and Theatres
Russian Museums - the site offers extensive coverage of museums in St. Petersburg and Moscow (English version)
Freelines - links to multimedia pages (video, music), culture and more (eng page)
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art
Pages of Moscow Theater Life - Moscow theater server
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre
Night Life Project - site devoted to the modern dance culture, music, clubbing and movies. (Russian version only)
Moscow Expat Site - free virtual community for English-speaking expats and Russians: information on life in Moscow
Russia Alive! - some information about museums in Russia (English)
Russian Folklore and Culture - an analysis of Russian culture and a collection of useful links
Russian Orthodox Church - the official site of the Moscow Patriarchate
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Nikita Mikhalkov

Regions of Russia

City Information By Regions
Russian Cities on the Web - an extensive travel guide to a lot of Russian cities (eng-rus)

Search Engines and Directories

Aport - Russian catalog and search engine which offers a facility for translating search terms from English to Russian (English version)
Geographical index of Russian WWW servers - in English
List of xUSSR WWW servers - in English
Rambler - Russian Search Engine (eng-rus)
Rusline Internet Directory - database of Russian resources (English only)
Russia on the net - searchable directory of Russian resources (eng-rus)
Russia on the web - US site (in English)
Russia.com - Directory and Complete Guide to Russia
Russian Internet search - Russian Search Engine (eng-rus)
Russian search engine - in English
Weblist.ru - searchable directory of Russian resources (eng-rus)