RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Religious freedom

The Keston Institute monitors religious freedom in post- communist and communist lands. They publish: a quarterly academic journal 'Religion, State & Society'; a free weekly e-mail Keston News Service Summary; the almost daily 'Keston News Service'; and a bimonthly magazine 'Frontier'. More details of their work and subscriptions are available via their website http://www.keston.org/

Human rights

The full, Russian language version of the Moscow Helsinki Group's regional reports covering human rights in all 89 regions of the Russian Federation in 2000 is now available online. So far, they only have a few of the reports up, but eventually all 89 will be here: http://www.hro.org/docs/reps/2000/index.htm The five volume report is full of information about prisons, torture, environmental issues, ethnic minorities, extremist groups, violations of economic rights (including in some cases forced labor/slavery), women's and children's rights and other issues. The English language report on their website is a summary of the whole, which is only available in Russian.

Military and strategic issues

The article by Colonel A. Soloviev, "Philosophy and Sociology of War in Post-Soviet Publications," in Insight Vol. 2 Issue 1 at http://www.psan.org is useful as a survey of recent Russian publications on military and strategic issues.