Library Guides: Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies: News & Newspapers

Contemporary News & Newspapers

Universal Database of Russian Newspapers
Click "Russian Central Newspapers" to access around 40 different Russian papers including Rossiiskaia gazeta, Rossiiskie vesti, Argumenty i fakty, Moskovskii komsomolets, Komsomolskaia pravda, Kommersant, and Vedomosti among others.

Provides access to full text of over 50 Russian newspapers.
Factiva
Search by country or region. Supports searching in Cyrillic.

Provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Content is available in many different languages, including Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Russian. Stock data and indices are available for 5 years.
Nexis Uni
While mostly English-language, there are many foreign-language papers represented. Searchable in Cyrillic.

A full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, news wires, news transcripts, business, and legal information. Dates of coverage vary by title.
Universal Database of Publications from Central Asia
Click on "Central Asia and Caucasus" to access. Includes publications from Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Armenia.

Full-text of nine newspapers (in Russian and English) published in Central Asia. Coverage begins with 2000 for most titles.

Pravda Digital Archive

Published from 1912-to the present. From 1912-1991, it was the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Izvestiia Digital Archive

FBIS Publications, Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports. All Regions, 1941 - 1996 and Annexes

FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1996 constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century. Many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred. Digitized from original paper copy and high-quality microfilm, this definitive online collection features full-text transcripts from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, China, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Soviet Union.
World News Connection

World News Connection is an online news service, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. This is no longer being updated.
Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.