Russian Links
Library shelfmark: RU
LASR Courses in Russian
OPAL Courses in Russian
Oxford University Russian Society has a selection of weblinks and is also on Facebook
The library's Delicious page offers you also a section of multimedia language links and the Netvibes page offers you the latest news. There are also extended e-resources available at Oxford.
The Librarian wishes to thank the tutors of the Language Centre for their links' suggestions as well as Dr Muireann Maguire.
External links
Below are the links to the external websites. Language Centre takes no responsibility for the content of these websites.
Useful Links / Language Resources / Searching on the web / Media / Culture / Politics and Social Sciences
Useful Links
- Russian at Oxford: undergraduate level, research
- Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library
- St Antony´s Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Bucknell Russian Studies Department Compiled by Professor Robert Beard of Bucknell University
- CRCEES at the University of Glasgow
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford since 1999-2000. Please note : access is limited to those in the Oxford domain. The listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are in the library with audio cassettes available for the listening comprehension examination
- REESweb : Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources at the University of Pittsburg
- The Russian Reference Corpus
- Russian WWW resources from the Department of Russian, Edinburgh University
- Ruskiy Mir Foundation
- SEELRC The Slavic and East European Language Research Center, Duke University
- TED talks with Russian subtitles TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a Creative Commons project offering videos of entrepreneurs, thinkers, writers. It also has an open translation project and a Russian playlist
Language Resources
- Academic.ru a collection of dictionaries, including specialised dictionaries
- BBC languages ideal for beginners
- Beginner's Russian to be used in combination with Beginner's Russian, Hippocrene Books, the textbook used for OPAL elementary and threshold
- Golosa Basic Course in Russian introductory Russian course focusing oncommunicative language and grammar/structure. The course is in the Language Centre library
- History of Slavic languages:Polish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian in comparison
- Fun with Russian a fantastic site with lots of audio material and vocabulary lists
- Learn Russian Free frequency vocabulary lists (2000 most common words) and quizzes
- List of Russian search engines from Phil Bradley's website
- Multitran dictionary
- On-line Russian reference grammar
- Ruslan Limited free demos of the first lessons from the textbooks which are in the library
- Russian Mentor interactive language learning
- Russian national corpus "intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and variousassociated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language"
- Russian sign language: the film Country of the Deaf which is in the library, contains some Russian sign language (written, visual)
- Shining Happy People a blog, ideal for beginners, in American (US) English, with a Russian word for the day and many tips (spelling rules etc...)
- Study Russian online for beginners. Contains some grammatical explanations, phonetics, help on reading, vocabulary topics
- Slavic Dictionary
List of search engines from Phil Bradley's website: Belarus Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Ukraine
Media
Latest news will be on the Library Netvibes page
- BBC Russian
- Kommersant.ru
- Russia on the Net collects a large number of Russian media sites
- RuTube the Russian youtube
- Izvestia
- Pravda
- Russian Journal e-zine
- Snob.ru
- Novaya Gazeta Newspaper known for its controversial and often anti-governmental stories
- Echo of Moscow poehali weekly programme with text and sound version
- Television channels
Culture & blogs
- 123art.ru contemporary art, mainly urban
- Flaxenwave a blog on Russian poetry
- From the ends to the beginning a bilingual anthology of Russian poetry, also contains audio material
- ExLibris latest cultural comments
- John Freedman blog on Russian theatre
- Glagoslav publications a publisher specialised in translating modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian literature
- KinoBuff a blog about Russian cinema
- LanguageHat a blog on comparative literature
- Lizoksbooks a blog on Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian contemporary literature
- Mosfilm on youtube: one of the largest film databases on the www
- Pushkin's poems bilingual edition
- Russian archives online photographs, films, audio clips and transcripts from the fifteen republics of the former USSR
- Russian Dinosaur a high quality blog on Russian literature and translation issues from an Oxford academic
- Snail on the slope a blog about Russian, Soviet and East European sci-fi
- Lib Ru Virtual library
- What every Russian knows (and you don't) a fantastic site with many quotes from famous films and much more
- Vintage Film Club a collection of films, some free, some pay-per-view, from LenFilm studios in St Petersburg, with English subtitles
- Several musical and literary links on the library's Delicious page
Politics and Social Sciences
- Moscow Mayor's Office
- PolitRu many downloadable lectures and political analysis
- Revelations from the Russian archives Online exhibition version of first public display a highly secret internal record of the Soviet communist rule
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