This series contains newspaper clippings from Western European press, brochures and publications of RFE/RL. Files are mainly on East European and western actors, composers, cosmonauts, filmmakers, historians, journalists, musicians, philosophers, politicians, singers (opera or pop music), and writers. The series covers personalities not only from the time of the accumulation of the documents, but prominent members of the cultural history also can be found among the files.

The series contains mainly press clipping of good physical condition.

The series is arranged in alphabetical order.