LION: Russian Politics: Resources by Topic

Gateway & Overviews

CIA World Factbook
MiPAL (Military Policy Awareness Links): Russia on MERLN (Military Education Research Library Network)
Reenic (Russian and East European Network Information Center from the University of Texas at Austin)
Reesweb (virtual reference library for Russian and Eastern European studies from the University of Pittsburg)
United Nations

Encyclopedia of Earth, a comprehensive material in traditional environmental disciplines.
Greenfile is a multidiciplinary database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
ScienceDirect provides access to full text peer-reviewed journals in the Geological and Environmental Sciences.

Amnesty International: Human Rights in Russian Federation
Human Rights Watch
United Nations: Human Rights
United Nations: Research Guide to Human Rights
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library The library houses more than sixty thousand human rights documents, human rights treaties and other international instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites.
WWW Virtual Library: Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs

EISIL Electronic Information System for International Law designed to help researchers "easily locate the hightest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the internet.
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
International Criminal Court
United Nations International Law webpage
United Nations Office of Administration of Justice
United Nations Sixth Committee
United Nations Treaty Collection

Agentura.ru Produced by former Izvestia government journalists
Carnegie Moscow Center
IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
KavKazcenter A Chechen resource
PRS Risk Guide and Service (available through LexisNexis Academic. Click on the Country Information link in the left pane).
RAND
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
U.S. Department of Defense