Chris Deliso's excellent news and analysis website. Politics, lots of thoughtful and well informed comment, and a happy admixture of human interest stories, combine to create a first class resource. Has a super links section that puts our meagre offering to shame. _

Despite its US provenance, this well established newswire service is valued by Russia-watchers worldwide. Updated throughout the day, the website gives strong coverage of economic and political issues as they affect the world's largest country. _

Le Monde Diplomatique knocks spots off almost all the opposition. Thoughtful, well informed and often provocative, this is the newspaper of first choice. Take out an annual subscription and get access to the electronic archive of past issues. This link points to the English language website, but the newspaper is actually published in twenty five languages. _

Just the thing for keeping up to speed with the local news in the Barents Sea region. A neat example of a regional news services covering a remote and multinational region. Both Russian and English editions cover northern Scandinavian, the Karelian and Komi Republics and northern Russia. _

Reliable news service with thoughtful analysis from a Czech-based online magazine with a regional focus on central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and the Caucasus region. The website is the successor to the old Transitions Online magazine and to Central Europe Review. _