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Prof. Peter Rutland's links

www.themoscowtimes.com
English-language daily, best one-stop source of news.
 
Russian daily news and commentary sites (in English):
http://polit.ru/story/int.html
http://en.rian.ru/

http://en.kremlin.ru/
Presidential web site.


http://www.russiaotherpointsofview.com/
Criticism of US media coverage

www.rferl.org
News and analysis.

www.eurasianet.org
for stories on Central Asia and the Caucasus.

www.cacianalyst.org
news and analysis on Central Asia and the Caucasus.

www.russiavotes.org
for data on election results and public opinion polls on major issues.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
BBC news index of stories and timelines for each country.

Prof. Irina Aleshkovsky's resources

FAMOUS PEOPLE 

RasPutin was before Putin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkySNDX4dU 

Mikhail Baryshnikov in Le Corsaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDU7sjkejY

Peter and the Wolf by Sergej Prokofiev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ueGfjBKbiE 

Alexander Pushkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bOn9FxdZA 

Tolstoy & Gandhi correspondence: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/21/leo-tolstoy-gandhi-letter-to-a-hindu/  

Yul Brynner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yul_Brynner 

INVENTORS  

Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky 

Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47 rifle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalashnikov_rifle 

Vladimir Zworykin & David Sarnoff, pioneers of American TV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff 

SPACE 

Yuri Gagarin, first man in space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin 

Valentine Tereshkova, first woman in space: https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/tereshkova.html 

Laika, first dog in space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika 

SCIENCE 

Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

Ivan Pavlov, first Russian Nobel Laureate, for research in physiology: http://mentalfloss.com/article/85670/12-facts-about-ivan-pavlov