RECOMMENDED SOURCES
The best source on Russian developments at the regional level is the Russian Regional Report of the East-West Institute. To subscribe send an e-mail to regions@iews.org listing your name and institutional affiliation, with "subscribe" as the e-mail subject. A PDF version is available online at: http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf/pages/rrr+page
A very useful source on Russian environmental affairs is Red Files: Russian Environmental Digest, a weekly collection distributed by e-mail and edited by Elena Vassilieva of the Transboundary Environmental Information Agency [<editor@teia.org <mailto:editor@teia.org>>, www.teia.org]. Subscribe by writing to majordomo@teia.org <mailto:majordomo@teia.org> with "subscribe redfiles" in message body.
An excellent source of expertise on Russian and post-Soviet military affairs is the Post-Soviet Armies Newsletter (PSAN) at http://www.psan.org/ edited by Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski. INSIGHT, a new online-only PSAN publication providing concise insight and analysis, appears on the PSAN site on the 15th of each month.
For Russian-language books in the social sciences from the former USSR at reasonable prices, I recommend the firm MIPP International, based in Minsk. For further information see their website http://www.mipp.msk.ru/books