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HU OSA 205-4-202 Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency]
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Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency]
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Date(s)
1995 - 1997
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114 Archival boxes, 14.25 linear meters
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Open Media Research Institute
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Scope and content (abstract)

First contracted by RFE/RL Research Institute (Munich, Germany) in 1992, What The Papers Say (WPS, Moscow Information Agency) continued providing information support to Open Media Research Institute (Prague, Czech Republic) from 1995 until the beginning of 1997.

Its services included preparing daily press surveys and special issues based on weekly and biweekly publications. Besides this several topical digests were prepared and sent electronically. The list of digests was constantly changing, though the major topics of interest remained the same: the political situation, national problems, and the economic conditions of the Russian federation. The entry The Former Soviet Union Republics in the Mass Media reflect problems of other FSU countries than Russia as seen from Russia. Of particular interest are files on National Policy and Political Extremism, Parties and Public Organizations in the Russian Federation, Ethnic Problems in the FSU Republics.

The first two boxes contain tables of contents for some of the issues included in the files.

Content and structure
Accruals
Not Expected
Content and structure
System of arrangement

Arranged by subjects according to the Russian alphabet.

Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Not Restricted
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing reproduction
Third party rights are to be cleared.
Description Control
Archivist's note
Arranged and described by Natasha Zanegina, 1998; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, January 28, 2003; translated to Russian by Katerina Belenkina, October, 2022.
HU OSA 205-4-202 Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency]
BookIconSeries Description
Context
Hierarchy
Statistics
Folders / Items
Identity Statement
Title
Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency]
Identity Statement
Date(s)
1995 - 1997
Identity Statement
Description Level
Series
Identity Statement
Extent and medium (processed)
114 Archival boxes, 14.25 linear meters
Context
Name of creator(s)
Open Media Research Institute
Content and structure
Scope and content (abstract)

First contracted by RFE/RL Research Institute (Munich, Germany) in 1992, What The Papers Say (WPS, Moscow Information Agency) continued providing information support to Open Media Research Institute (Prague, Czech Republic) from 1995 until the beginning of 1997.

Its services included preparing daily press surveys and special issues based on weekly and biweekly publications. Besides this several topical digests were prepared and sent electronically. The list of digests was constantly changing, though the major topics of interest remained the same: the political situation, national problems, and the economic conditions of the Russian federation. The entry The Former Soviet Union Republics in the Mass Media reflect problems of other FSU countries than Russia as seen from Russia. Of particular interest are files on National Policy and Political Extremism, Parties and Public Organizations in the Russian Federation, Ethnic Problems in the FSU Republics.

The first two boxes contain tables of contents for some of the issues included in the files.

Content and structure
Accruals
Not Expected
Content and structure
System of arrangement

Arranged by subjects according to the Russian alphabet.

Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Not Restricted
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing reproduction
Third party rights are to be cleared.
Description Control
Archivist's note
Arranged and described by Natasha Zanegina, 1998; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, January 28, 2003; translated to Russian by Katerina Belenkina, October, 2022.