A list of helpful language- and culture-related internet resources

Russian Language

• Exercises and videos for Golosa textbook (1st and 2nd year of Russian): http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa/

• Bucknell University, developed by Robert Beard: http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/language/

• Interactive Russian exercises, Cornell University: https://russian.cornell.edu/index.cfm?MainFrameURL=description&CourseID=RUSSA1121&Section=courses&LinkID=RUSSA1121

• Basic Russian: http://masterrussian.com/index-2.cfm

• Russian grammar YouTube channel:

  https://www.youtube.com/user/russiangrammar

• Free Russian language materials:

  https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/5391150/Free-Russian-Learning-Materials-WIP

• Five-minute YouTube videos on Russian grammar:

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYCqA10ftCb6CzJOJgw4XFQ/playlists 

• Russian cultural resources for beginners, intermediate and advanced students: https://3ears.com

• Quarantine Diaries: New online Russian language lessons:

  http://folkways.today/category/language/quarantine-diaries/ 

• Russian-language podcasts: interviews with human rights defenders:

  https://www.rightsinrussia.org/category/podcasts/ 

Dictionaries

• English-to-Russian and Russian-to-English Dictionaries: http://lingvo.ru

• A variety of Russian dictionaries (orthographic dictionary, dictionaries of accents, dictionary of antonyms, dictionary of synonyms, Russian-to-Russian dictionary, dictionary of Russian names, dictionary of Russian slang): http://www.gramota.ru/

• Online Dictionary of the Russian Living Language by V Dal’: https://www.slovardalja.net

• National Corpus of the Russian Language, a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form: http://www.ruscorpora.ru/ 

Russian Literature and Culture

• A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse: http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/mdenner/Demo/index.html

• Mapping St. Petersburg – a project based on Andrey Bely’s novel: http://stpetersburg.berkeley.edu/

• Resources on Master and Margarita: http://cr.middlebury.edu/bulgakov/public_html/

• Seventeen moments in Soviet History: http://soviethistory.msu.edu

• http://learningrussian.net/useful-russian-links.php

• http://www.russiapoliticalinsight.com/useful-links

News, Articles and Reading

• Medusa podcasts: https://meduza.io/podcasts

• Rain podcasts: https://tvrain.ru/teleshow/podcasts/

• Sean's Russian Blog podcast (hosted by Sean Guillory at the University of Pittsburgh. Each week, he interviews researchers about new publications in the fields of Eurasian politics and history): https://srbpodcast.org/

• http://www.lenta.ru

• http://www.gazeta.ru

• http://www.ntv.ru

• http://www.aif.ru/

• http://www.russianinternet.com/newspapers.html

• http://kommersant.ru/

• www.rambler.ru

• www.yandex.ru

Moscow

• Welcome to Moscow: http://all-moscow.ru/index.ru.html

• http://www.screen.ru/moscow/

St. Petersburg

• http://www.enlight.ru/camera/

• http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/ 

Caucasus

• https://kavkaz-uzel.eu 

Central Asia

• https://fergana.agency 

Radio

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news/default.stm

• http://www.russianinternet.com/radio/ 

Television

• http://www.1tv.ru/

• http://russianinternet.com/video/ 

Films

• RussianFilmHub.com 

Facebook (theatre, museums)

• Гоголь-центр
• Мастерская Дмитрия Брусникина
• Мастерская Фоменко
• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
• Stage Russia

Theatre

• Online performances from Mariinsky Theater:  https://mariinsky.tv/e 

Durham Students Perform (Ooook! Productions)

• Mikhail Bulgakov’s Ivan Vasil’evich

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2f-2qM8Y6k

• https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ivanvasilievichooookproductions 

 Twitter

• The Russian student: https://twitter.com/russtudentuk?lang=en