One Dot Shopping:     
An Update of the Best International Business Sites

Tuesday, June 11, 2002   9:30AM - 11:00AM 
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center

An update of last year's wildly popular program, this session will spotlight the premium business Web sites of the Middle East/North Africa, Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Republics, and Oceania.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate - Analysis
Sponsor: Dialog, The Information Professional Partner
Moderator(s): Iris W. Anderson, International Relations Roundtable Chair, DSOC, Joint World Bank/IMF Library
Ann Sweeney, Chair-Elect, DSOC, European Union - European Commission Delegation

Speakers	Hal Kirkwood	Assistant Professor of Library Science, Purdue University
	Rita Costello	Collection Development/Reference Librarian, Rosenfeld Management Library, The Anderson School at UCLA
	Greta Ober-Beauchesne	Research Librarian, Joint World Bank/IMF Library

Eastern Europe/Former Soviet Republics
(click for maps)

FAVORITE SITES BY CATEGORIES: Business Climate | Business Etiquette | Business Intelligence | Company | Doing Business In | E-Readiness | Industry | Statistics | Taxation |University/Research

USEFUL SITES BY CATEGORIES: Company | Economic Analysis | E-Readiness | Etiquette | Experts| Government Information | News | Portals | Regional | Statistics |Taxation Law |University/Research

FAVORITE SITES FEATURED DURING THE PRESENTATION

FAVORITE CITY/REGION BUSINESS CLIMATE FOR FSR SITE
http://www.russianamericanchamber.org/
Russian - American Chamber of Commerce, nonprofit organization whose mission is to play a vital and meaningful role in promoting and expanding America's business presence in Russia. From Colorado headquarters, provides practical, knowledgeable expertise and guidance for American companies who do business in Russia. Founded in New York in 1990 to become a prestigious nationwide association speaking in a unified voice favoring U.S. business interests in Russia."Cities & Region link" - describes local business climate; "Map of the FSR" -- good visual orientation to the region; "Russia Links" -- Business; Industries; Investment & Banking; link to "news sources" are most useful for business information. "Site Map" includes "What's News? - Daily Russia News and Events" area with coverage of Business | Economics | Politics. While site has potential ; unfortunately there are dead links which undermine its utility

FAVORITE BUSINESS ETIQUETTE SITE
http://www.executiveplanet.com/community/default.asp?section=Russia
ExecutivePlanet.com
Executive Planet's mission is to inspire business travelers to travel with greater cultural awareness. EP strives to present up-to-date and relevant information on international business culture, customs and protocol, gift-giving, negotiating tactics, business entertainment, cross-cultural communication and more. Covers numerous aspects of business protocol, including gift-giving, negotiating tactics, appointments, business entertaining, cross-cultural communication and more. While there are considerable web resources for business etiquette covering many more countries; my experience is that they are fee services such as: http://www.business-protocol.com/ | http://www.webofculture.com | http://www.businessculture.com/ | http://www.worldbiz.com/

Emphasizes the European Union; relevant now that many EE countries are affiliating. There are currently ten countries in the Central and Eastern Europe region negotiating to enter to the European Union (EU): Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria. The highly intensive and complex EU accession process has shaped various aspects of accession countries' transition to a market economy and the development of their commercial rules and regulations.

FAVORITE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR CENTRAL ASIA SITE (click for map) Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection; Available at: http://www.eurasianet.org/maps/central_asia_map.html
http://www.eurasianet.org/
Eurasianet.org provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. Site focuses on Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Kygyzstan. Each of these Central Eurasian countries has a separate resource page, with links grouped according to subjects, with some history links. English; Russian; Arabic

FAVORITE REGIONAL COMPANY SITE
http://www.rusmarket.com/
Rusmarket.com directory was created to help foreign companies to organize and carry on business with Russian and other NIS-countries counterparts. Companies are categorized into:
 

Agriculture (32)	Chemistry (45)	Construction (109)	Culture and art (73)
Electronics (76)	Energy (60)	Fabrics and clothing (44)	Finance (127)
Food (79)	Information technology (187)	Leather and footwear (17)	Machinery (105)
Mass media and publishing (90)	Medicine (75)	Metals (62)	Paper and board (12)
Polymeric materials (25)	Precise equipment (50)	Real estate (46)	Science and education (215)
Services (380)	Telecommunication (80)	Timber and furniture (49)	Tourism and sport (176)
State and authority (210)	Trade (201)	Transport (63)	Transport services (178)
Various products (48)	World brands in NIS (44)

FAVORITE DOING BUSINESS IN NIS SITE
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/
US Department of Commerce. BISNIS (Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States) is the US Government's primary market information center for US companies exploring business opportunities in Russia and other Newly Independent States. BISNIS provides US Companies with the latest market reports and tips on developments, export and investment leads, and strategies for doing business in the NIS. Since opening in 1992, BISNIS has facilitated more than $3 billion worth of US exports and overseas investments.

BISNIS has developed a Russian-language web page to assist NIS companies seeking business development through cooperation with US firms. The BISNIS Russian-language page provides unique content oriented toward the needs and interests of NIS firms and is not a mirror of the English-language site. Resources are free; some resources are made available on an ongoing basis by free registration. High visibility; a BISNIS link was prominent on just about every page with resources on business opportunities in the NIS. Best parts include: Industry Reports & Country Reports | trade and partner leads | transportation, banking, customs, and other practical business issues | updates on commercial laws and regulations | new resources, including Web sites and business support organizations.

FAVORITE DOING BUSINESS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (CEE) SITE
http://www.mac.doc.gov/ceebic/
Central & Eastern Europe Business Information Center CEEBICNet. US Department of Commerce
Established in 1990 by Congressional legislation under the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act, CEEBIC is a one-stop shop and the US Government's clearinghouse for the most recent economic, commercial, and financial information on the 15 countries of Central and Eastern Europe. CEEBIC offers a wide array of services, business counseling, and information products designed to help primarily small- and medium-sized US Companies export to Central and Eastern European markets. CEEBIC's Washington-based trade specialists and dedicated overseas staff in 14 countries of the region work together to implement this unique program for US firms.

FAVORITE DOING BUSINESS IN RUSSIA SITE
http://www.ru/eng/index.1.html?topic=2
Russia on the Net: The Original Russian Web Directory since September 1995
"Business" category links to Business | Companies | Banks and Finance | Products and Services | Electronic Commerce
http://www.ru/eng/index.1.html?topic=5
"Computers & the Internet" category links to Companies | Hardware | Information and Documentation | Internet Providers | Search Systems | Software | World Wide Web
Regardless of which category you browse, links to agencies for Russian brides and affiliated services are pervasive ranging from businesslike to scandalous.

FAVORITE E-READINESS SITE
http://www.europemedia.net/choosecountry.asp
Europe Medianet tracks European Internet and new media developments across the continent. From the Atlantic to the Urals, from the Arctic circle to the Caspian, europemedia brings you the latest Internet news and developments both on a pan-European level and country-by-country. We make a point of covering the smaller countries other news services ignore. We cover Internet news and issues in the broadest sense, from technology, telecommunications and cable & satellite to governmental policy and all aspects of online publishing, as well as more specific company and market information. Besides up-to-date news, reports, event listings, newsletters and editorials, europemedia.net contains searchable archives and industry & country factfiles for every European country. Browseable by country or sector (Broadband; e-commerce; Internet, etc.) or searchable by keyword.

FAVORITE STATISTICS SITE
http://www.cbr.ru/eng/statistics/credit_statistics/
Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) was founded on July 13, 1990
Primarily financial & macroeconomic statistics.
Includes English full text to its "Bulletin of Banking Statistics" since 1998. Among the considerable statistical data are narrative reports which assess the country's social and economic situation updating topics such as General Economic Trends, Foreign Trade, Inflation, Production, Household Income and Savings, and Financial Markets.

FAVORITE TAXATION SITE
http://www.taxup.com/
TaxUp
TaxUp's mission is to build a global webdirectory which guides the surfer through the enormous amount of tax information on the Internet and this in a fast, straightforward and logical way. Covers nearly 200 countries. Links to tax sites from EY, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Andersen and also serves as a portal into other resources specific to that country. Most links lead to English language sources. In addition to country resources are financial tools such as an international tax glossary, exchange rates, a 300,000 company directory file from Corporate Information; a publications library: a news archive of over 6,000 global sources including leading newspapers, top newswires and key trade journals (searching is free; article delivery is priced per article and delivered by Factiva), tax facts for countries results in a PDF KPMG report. Ability to search across the Tax_news.com site from TaxUp and link to the actual article. Here a good variety of no-cost tax information is centralized and accessible with charges for premium content.

FAVORITE UNIVERSITY/RESEARCH SITE
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/
REESWeb University of Pittsburgh Russian & East European Studies Virtual Library
Browseable by subject (and then country and time period) or searchable by keyword. Coverage is broader than business; however many business subject are covered within this site. Business subjects available to intersect are: Agriculture; business consulting; datasets; directories; economic policy; economics/business; employment; news sources/mass media; statistics; telecomm; television/radio; and vendors at a minimum.

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USEFUL SITES FOR BUSINESS INFORMATION - Selected resources beyond the presentation

http://weblist.ru/index.html
List of Russian Web Servers
Another kind of "Yahoo!" that includes companies under "Business and Economy". Here the company link brings a classified listing of links. The links go to company's Internet pages. Expect the Cyrillic alphabet. Other relevant categories include computers & Internet | regional |news & media.

USEFUL SITES FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
http://www.russianeconomy.org/
The Russian Economy, from the Hoover Institution.
The object of this site is to provide scholarly critique and analysis of Russia's economy. And content is written by two Hoover research fellows. Several book chapters in Part One are accessible. Other chapters will be added to the site as they are completed. As new data become available, and as events warrant, existing chapters will be replaced with new text. Authors continually update statistical appendices with the latest data. In"Comments and Articles" authors post brief essays on Russia's economy several times a month. Authors comment on major economic trends and developments in Russia which may be announced by Russian authorities, by US government officials, or by such international organizations as the IMF. However, russiaeconomy is not designed to be a comprehensive Russian site.

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/eca/eca.nsf
World Bank Europe & Central Asia
The World Bank's interest is in moving these countries from central planned economies to operate independently in the world marketplace. Download a good amount of full text at no cost. Coverage of 28 countries in the EE/FSR region. For each country find most recent news from World bank; regional news; basic World Bank data & statistics and full text of World Bank reports (very large file set).

USEFUL SITES FOR E-READINESS
http://www.nsrc.org/EUROPE/europe.html
The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), a nonprofit organization, has been involved for the past decade with the deployment and integration of appropriate networking technology in various projects throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania. Dedicated to networking infrastructure in the country; with links to country Connectivity Providers, ISPs and Networking within the country. Regions of Europe & Asia together include many of the countries we know as EE/FSR. Clickable map or alpha index to countries

http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=channelid_6&channelid=6&title=Doing+e-business+in
Economist Intelligence Unit's "Doing E-business In . . ."
Covers 8 countries of interest to our region: Bulgaria | Czech Republic | Hungary | Poland | Romania | Russia | Slovakia| Ukraine. Each country's analysis includes: today's news; market profile; e-business readiness ranking and research portals. While site is at no cost there are links to EIU publications at cost.

USEFUL SITES FOR ETIQUETTE
http://www.rispubs.com/stordept.cfm?DeptSel=24
Russian Life Online - Customs & Etiquette
Explore the many regions of the Russian Federation, as well as the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union in this metasite covering topics from adoption to writers.

USEFUL SITES FOR EXPERTS
http://www.amcham.ru
American Chamber of Commerce in Russia.
Mission is to promote the development of commercial relations between the Russian Federation and the international community by representing Western business interests in the Russian Federation. "News & Events" link is highly selective; very recent and primarily in English. AmCham News is a quarterly publication that focuses on recent events and work of the Chamber. Most recent issues are reserved for members. Backfiles are available as zipped files without a search utility. Also included on the site is information on Chamber industry-specific committees, with Chapters in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have committees for the following business sectors: aerospace, consumer goods & agriculture, capital markets, energy, customs, human resources, investment, small business, real estate, information technology, healthcare, telecommunications, taxation, transportation, standards & certification, and security. Well-known law firms and companies head many of these committees with roots in the United States.

http://www.cdc.org/MDS_Links.htm
The Citizens Democracy Corps (CDC) has supported and developed hundreds of small and medium sized businesses in Central/Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus Region, Thailand, Guatemala, and Central Asia, assisted in the growth of market economies and a variety of stabilizing, democratic institutions, and provided new market opportunities and jobs for the region's companies and citizens. CDC was formed in 1990 by the American private sector to enlist American volunteers specifically in support of the transition to free market economies in the NIS and CEE, where decades of government control and central planning left people and institutions poorly prepared to compete in a market-driven, global economy. At the heart of CDC's programs are its volunteer advisors drawn from the top ranks of American business. All have a minimum of eight years senior level management experience and most are active managers or owners who give several months of their time and talents as doers, planners, and mentors. Active countries of interest include Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Kosovo, Russia and Ukraine.

USEFUL SITES FOR GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (Some fit into"Useful -Expert" sites)
http://www.usatrade.gov/
US Department of Commerce Commercial Services
Offers assistance to help your business export goods and services to markets worldwide. From this site you can access a global listing of trade events, international market research, and practical tools to help with every step of the export process.

http://www.uscgyekat.ur.ru/fcs.htm
US Department of Commerce Commercial Services
The US Consulate General's Commercial Section is responsible for promoting trade between the United States and the Urals and Western Siberia regions of Russia. The staff includes representatives of the US Department of Commerce's Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) and Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS), who provide business services and market research reports for American companies. The Commercial Section also offers two other Department of Commerce programs to support US businesses in the Urals and Western Siberia regions of Russia: the Business Information Service for the New Independent States (BISNIS) and the Special American Business Internship Training Program (SABIT).

http://www.state.gov/www/issues/economic/trade_reports/1999/99eur.html
US Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices are available for countries in Europe and the New Independent States:Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and the Ukraine are covered.

http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/99hrp_eur.html
US Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Covers: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan are analyzed.

http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2001/europe/index.html
US Department of State. Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Country Commercial Guides in PDF format. Include Russian and Eastern European countries.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html#toc
Library of Congress, Country Studies
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Search across all countries or any combination of countries or Browse tables of contents for a specific country.

http://www.usaid.gov/regions/europe_eurasia/
United States Agency for International Development Europe & Eurasia
Links to information on Development Assistance to the Newly Independent States of the Former USSR. Some 35 countries in our region are covered. Links from this site connect to a wide range of country resources, many containing business information. Information Communications Technology Country Assessments exist for 4 countries: Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania.

http://www.buyusa.gov/russia/en/
US Commercial Service, Department of Commerce whose Mission is to assist US Companies with successful market entry by providing professional market research and customized contact facilitation services. Services such as trade leads; market reports and trade shows are all handled by agency experts. Experts name and email is given for first contact.

http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/
TradePort is an authorized distributor of STAT-USA data. Data are freely available and make a reasonable substitute for institutions without a subscription to Stat-USA. Asia and East Europe cover the region of interest.

http://www.fe.doe.gov/international/r-nis.shtml
US Department of Energy - Fossil Energy-Related Global Activities
Russia and Newly Independent States
Collection of links to research & development for: Electric Power | Oil/Gas | Fuels | Oil Reserves |Electricity Regulation | Gas Regulation. Quite useful for industry information in relevant areas of research.

USEFUL SITES FOR NEWS

http://www.rbcnews.com/
RosBusiness Consulting, founded in 1992
Investment news for the Russian market. While a good deal of information at site is free; parts are by subscription.

http://www.rferl.org/
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Links to Broadcast Services by countries; link color indicates native language; both English & Non-English language search. http://www.rferl.org/newsline/ provides daily report of developments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucuses, and Central Asia. RFE/RL Newsline is prepared five times a week by a group of specialists on the region and is available free via email. Free email subscription to Balkan, Balkan States, Business Watch; Caucus, Central Asia, Crime & Corruption Watch; East European; Poland, Belarus & Ukraine. Provides staff contacts including email address for newsletter editors.

http://www.europeaninternet.com/Russia/
Russia Today
Comprehensive site of daily news from and about Russia: politics, economy, business, finance, features, etc. Especially the Business tab.

http://www.europeaninternet.com/centraleurope/
Central Europe Online by the same publishers who produce Russia Today
Front page and business news across Central Europe; and other related material; updated daily. Especially the Business tab.

http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/home.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=22
Transitions Online a leading Internet magazine covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union - is the online successor to Transitions magazine. A Czech nonprofit dedicated to strengthening independent journalism, TOL is based in Prague and uses a network of local correspondents to provide unique, cross-regional analysis. TOL is the only magazine to cover all of the region's 28 post-communist countries. Very inexpensive to subscribe; free to citizens of the 28 post-Communist countries covered.

http://www.itar-tass.com/news.asp
Information Telegraph Agency of Russia-ITAR-Tass
The successor of the Soviet Tass news agency-is a rich source of news and information. ITAR-Tass is a massive operation with 74 bureaus and offices inside Russia and the newly independent states, and 65 foreign bureaus.

USEFUL SITES FOR PORTALS
http://www.eurasianews.com/erc/homepage.htm
The Eurasia Research Center Web Site features research reports, news analysis, and links to newspaper articles and wire service reports with breaking news on the Balkans, Baltic States, Central Europe, the Caucasus, formerly Soviet Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Also featured are direct links to pages with information on politics, issues of war and peace, culture, and social, economic and human rights conditions in Post Cold War Eurasia. The Eurasia Research Center EurasiaNews service provides special reports on crisis regions of Eurasia such as Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosova, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Kurdistan, and Tajikistan. Eurasianews organizes a wide variety of news sites covering the region and arranges those links into news in English, news in a foreign language and commercial sites that charge fees.

http://www.ssees.ac.uk/dirctory.htm
Directory of Internet Resources. School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
For each of the 20 countries covered provides links to Government and official information: elections: economics and statistics; news and media: academic sites: culture and society: regions and cities: search engines. Other resources all potentially useful to assemble business information. Good links to Stock exchanges.

http://www.mainportals.com/Russia.shtml
MAIN PORTALS of Russia: Search the Big, Top Russian Sites.
Your guide to the main Internet Portals of Russia, main search engines, top sites, most popular sites. Directory of the best search engines, biggest Russian web portals. Meta search, meta news, metasearch, metanews.
http://www.mainportals.com/index.shtml use the site's country index to find parallel portal pages for: Bulgaria, Czech-Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.

USEFUL EAST EUROPEAN PORTAL
http://inic.utexas.edu/reenic.html
Russian and East European Network Information Center (UT-REENIC) UT-REENIC is an educational, noncommercial service offered by The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES). A gateway browseable by general links; by country or by region OR keyword. Coverage is more broad than business. Access by Boolean searching or browsing subject or country categories.

USEFUL SITES FOR REGIONAL
http://www.okno.com/regional/regional-resources.html
OknoGroup. Central/Eastern Europe General Regional Resources
Produced by a consulting group specializing in environmental and health care policy in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

http://www.kazecon.kz
Kazecon is the first Internet stop for anyone doing business in Kazakkhstan, featuring daily news headlines, weekly news summaries, and information on the securities market, legislation, industries, and companies doing business in the republic. Presented in both English and Russian, and with the audience spanning the globe, the award-winning Kazecon* has over three years of history as Central Asia's most popular business-oriented site on the World Wide Web. Kazecon receives an average of 120,000 page hits per month, evenly split between users in the CIS and abroad. Only the newWire piece of this site is by subscription. Departments covered are:financial markets, business & economy, legal information & analysis; privatization and company research and pension system & reform.

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/7635/russians.html
Russia on the Internet
A regional resource to Russian Life covering a wide variety of topics leading to information in both English and Russian. Arranged by categories Research | Travel & Sightseeing | Media | Government | Business | Education | Sports | Music | Other.

http://www.slavweb.com/eng/server-e-fr2.html
Slavic-Eurasian Web Studies
Post-Soviet Countries - Internet Resources. 20 countries and ten topics from general information to economy, law, and travel. Also useful for maps and Russian history.

USEFUL SITES FOR STATISTICS

http://www.rtsnet.ru/engl/sitemap.htm
Russian Trading System
The RTS is a composite market for corporate stocks and bonds, combining the traditional OTC market and the Guaranteed Trading System (a system where only the trades that have been fully secured by money and stock deposits in their special accounts are executed). In the Guaranteed Trading System (GTS) RTS members can also trade in blocks of securities, an analogue of investing in the RTS Index, and in terms of Initial Public Offerings auctions. Most significant areas of coverage include news for both RTS and its listed companies, statistics both current & archived, RTS members, RTS market makers.

http://www.cisstat.com/eng/index.htm
Interstate Statistical Committee Of The Commonwealth Of Independent States. Official Statistics of the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Macroeconomic indicators by country and region behind the "statistics" link. Good amount of free information; includes links to statistical publications which may be ordered.

USEFUL SITES FOR TAXATION & LAW
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/russia.html
Guide to Law On-line: Russia. Law Library of Congress
Its mission is to provide research and legal information to the US Congress as well as to US Federal Courts and Executive Agencies, and to offer reference services to the public. To accomplish this mission, it has created the world's largest collection of law books and other legal resources from all countries, and now moves into the age of digitized information with online databases and guides to legal information worldwide.

http://www.abanet.org/ceeli/home.html
ABA. Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI)
ABA/CEELI, a public service project of the American Bar Association, advances the rule of law in the world by supporting the legal reform process in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Developed with the assistance of lawyers, judges, and law professors, the site is currently being redesigned. CEELI includes a useful "sites of interest" section which links to a good selection of sites for the region and then sites for 24 countries from Albania to Uzbekistan.

http://www.taxsites.com/international.html#countries
Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
Country-Specific Sites; select EE/FSU country of interest
Links to EY Passport and other specialized Web sites for tax information unique to each country.

http://www.ey.com/global/gcr.nsf/EYPassport/Welcome_-_Countries_-_EYPassport
EY/Passport Country Navigator
EY tax publications for more than 130 countries. Includes: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, South East Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia. For the larger countries you can expect to find country tax resources for: EY's "doing business in" - freely available downloadable PDF reports and country specific articles in EY's "The Global Executive" and its "TaxNews International."

USEFUL SITES FOR UNIVERSITY / RESEARCH
http://wwics.si.edu/kennan/index.htm
The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies is committed to improving US expertise and knowledge about Russia and the former Soviet Union. Occasional papers, special reports and recent "Global Outlook, Quarterly International Urban Publication" issues in full text are among the most analytical tools at this site.

http://www.nceeer.org/
The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
PhD level research site; not full text but research available for purchase inexpensively. NCEEER has built ties to institutions in the United States and abroad in order to serve the needs of the Eurasian and East European studies community.

http://www.nih.gov/fic/regional/russia.html
The Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fosters partnerships between US scientists and their counterparts in Russia and the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet Union through implementation of international agreements and a variety of other activities which support international collaboration

http://cns.miis.edu/research/euronis.htm
Monterey Institute of International Studies
CNS Regions: Newly Independent States/Europe
Devoted to nonproliferation issues exclusively. Significant amounts of full text available within subject matter covered. Broad areas of coverage include: Chem/Bio | Missiles | Nuclear | Terrorism |Treaties/Regimes.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ecasww/
Central Asia Experts Directory
Sponsored by the Harvard Program on Central Asia, this site offers global perspective on Central Asia, featuring social sciences and humanities studies. Functions as a collaborative effort among individuals and institutions.

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/
Bucknell Russian Program - primarily for language, culture, society; and a gateway.
Open Society Folder, then Economics, for links in the area of business, finance and economics. A high degree of duplication between these business areas and identifies few resources not selected for this webliography.

http://law.gonzaga.edu/library/ceeurope.htm
Gonzaga University. School of Law, Library and Computing
Central and east European legal, political, business and economics resources. CEESource focuses on English-language www links from government, academic, NGO, and news agency sources. Links that are not at least partially in English are noted. Covers about 20 countries.

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