REES Links and Resources
In the News
September, 2025
The digital project, "The Preservation of the Legacy of the Mariupol Greeks," coordinated by Natasha Karageorgos in collaboration with Tetiana Liubchenko and other Ukrainian scholars and supported by an Allbritton Center Faculty Grant, launched its website:
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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.
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/
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