Chapter 3

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Golosa. Third edition links to video, grammar and supplements.

Sound. Link to the audio recordings for Golosa: Book One.

Golosa. Textbook links to useful web sources for this chapter.

Grammar Exercises. Exercises by George Mitrevski - posted on the Golosa web site.
[Do the Exercises from this chapter.]

An Interactive Online Russian Reference Grammar. From Robert Beard, Bucknell University. [Russian fonts required]


NATIONALITIES / NON-RUSSIAN REGIONS IN RUSSIA - MAPS

Russia's Ethnic Republics. CIA Map. From the University of Texas site.
Soviet Union Nationalities. CIA Map. From the University of Texas site.
Comparative Soviet Nationalities by Republic. CIA Map. From the University of Texas site.
Autonomous Areas of Russia. 1996 Map. From the University of Texas site.
Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps. Resource collection: The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas at Austin.


ETHNIC AND NATIONAL GROUPS IN RUSSIA

[What do these journalists, scholars and officials have to say about the ethnic problems in Russia?]

REFUGEES: Russia Faces Continuing Influx Of Displaced People. Article by Sergei Blagov (Jan.4, 1998).
Beyond Moscow. The 15 Republices of the Former Soviet Union. A brief section from the manuscript: Stalinism: Its Origins & Future by Andy Blunden.
Immigration Law in the Russian Federation. A paper by Kevin Tessier (J.D. Candidate, Indiana University).
Ethnolinguistic Minorities in Russia: Internet Resources. Links from Slavweb.com.
Five Challenges for Russia. Article by Sergei Rogov, Director of the USA/Canada Institute in Moscow. (Excerpts from Peace Magazine.)


RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP

The Fifth Column - Nationality. On the disputes held in Parliament on the question of whether the Russian passport should include a column defining the person's nationality.
POPULATION: New Russian Passports Must Silence Ethnic Rancour. Analysis by Valery Tishkov (Dec.9,1997).


LANGUAGE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD

(Who speaks what, where?)

Language and Language Family Information. From the Linguist List (Eastern Michigan University; Wayne State). General Sources, plus web sources per language. [Works fine in Internet Explorer; in Netscape you may have to reset the character set (under "View) to Unicode (UTF-8) and reload.]
Ethnologue: Languages of the World. A catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. Includes a Language Family Index. Barbara F. Grimes, Editor.
Indo-European. Excerpt from the Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Barbara F. Grimes, Editor. [Check out which other (425!) languages are in our language family. What (4) languages are most closely related to Russian?]
Languages of Russia. Excerpt from the Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Barbara F. Grimes, Editor. [How many people who live in Russia speak Russian? What country--after Russia--has the highest number of native Russian speakers? How many native Russian speakers in the US?]


LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IN RUSSIA

AATSEEL - Russian. Links to programs for the study of Russian in the US and Russia from AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages). Includes both summer and semester/year programs.
Russian Language for Foreigners. Data list of where Russian is taught divided by cities, regions, and all over the world.
Language Centre "ProBa". Study Russian in St. Petersburg.

(in Russian)
Moscow State University - Philology Department. [What languages and language families are taught here?]


THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

(In Russian)
New Words in the Russian Lexicon. From ETS Publishing House. Updated weekly! [What is the category this week?]
New Words in Russian-English Lexicon. From ETS Publishing House. Updated weekly! (e.g. military-political terminology; automobile terminology; excerpt from geographic names of British Isles.
Home Page for ETS. Also comes in English. [Which items have something to do with languages? This site is best viewed in Internet Explorer.]


RUSSIAN GUIDES / INTERPRETERS / TRANSLATING SERVICES

The Russian Word, Inc.. Translation and Software Localization.


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