Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes: LC Portals: Russia)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• International Constitutional Law: Russia (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and background notes
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) in English, Russian, and Spanish

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President
• Premier
• Government

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Supreme Court of Russia

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Federal'noye Sobraniye [Federal Assembly], consisting of the Sovet Federatsii [Federation Council] and the Gosudarstvennaya Duma [State Duma]
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 89 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from August 1993 to the present
• NATLEX: Russia (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• E-Transaction Law Resources: Russia (Baker & McKenzie)
• Natural Resources Legislation: Russia (University of Denver College of Law)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Russia (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• EECR: Russia (East European Constitutional Review)
• FindLaw: Russian Federation
• ForIntLaw: Russia (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Russia (New York University Law Library)
• A Guide to Russian Legal Research (Marina Konioukhova, via LLRX) June 30, 2003
• JURIST: Russia (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Material on Russian Federation Law in English: Selection of Sources (Lucy Cox, via GlobaLex) December 2005
• Religious Liberty: The Legal Framework in Selected OSCE Countries (U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) May 2000; prepared by the Law at the request of the Commision; includes Russia and ten other countries; includes part 1 (pp. 1-203) only; part 2 (pp. 204-349 Appendices) not available online
• World Law Index: Russia (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Europe: Russia (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Russia () July 1996
• Portals to the World: Russia ()
• Background Notes: Russia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Russia (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Russian Federation (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Russia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Europe / Independent States
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Russia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Russia (The Economist)
• Embassy of Russia, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Russia (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Russian Federation (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Russia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARIES: Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka [Russian State Library] and Rossiiskaya Natsionalnaya Biblioteka [National Library of Russia]
• National Libraries of Europe: National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg and Russian State Library, Moscow (European Library)
• U.S. Embassy, Moscow (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Russia (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Russian Federation / Caucasus (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Russia (Google); Russia (Yahoo); WWW-VL Russian and East European Studies (University of Pittsburgh