Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 205-4-202

Title

Subject Files Created by WPS [What Papers Say, Moscow News Agency]

Date(s)

1995 - 1997

Description Level

Series

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.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

Arranged by subjects according to the Russian alphabet.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Unknown

Languages

Russian

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.