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	HU OSA 205-2-60
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 2:	Research and Analysis Department
Series 60:	Subject Files of Robert Orttung

Date(s) 1994-1997

Extent and medium 28 Archival boxes, 4 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 205C Open Media Research Institute
• HU OSA 205-2C Research and Analysis Department

Scope and content

Robert W.Orttung worked at the Research and Analysis Department as a resaerch analyst. He specialized in the Russian domestic politics and wrote extensively on the related topics. In 1995 he published a book From Leningrad to St.Peterburg: Democratization in a Russian City (New York: St.Martin's Press, 1995) and several articles in Transition and Soviet Studies. In 1995-1996 he worked on the book The Battle for the Duma: The Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1995.

The Subject Files that were compiled during this period reflect his research interest and contain materials mostly related to the elections in the Russian Federation. The files provide information on a wide range of the topics: the election campaign, financial issues, main candidates (Zuganov, Yeltsin, Lebed, Zhirinovskii), results including federal and regional, violations during the campaign, voting procedures, and others. The series consists of clippings, news agencies releases and monitoring materials (mostly provided by What Paper Say, Moscow Information Agency), articles and analytical briefs that were published both in the Western and the Russian press and at OMRI.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by subject according to the Latin alphabet

Language/scripts of material English, Russian

Finding aids

• 28 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205-4-206 Russian Monitoring Archives, 1986-1999
• HU OSA 205-4-201 The Former Soviet Union Archives, 1975-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-2 Transitions, 1997-1998
• HU OSA 205-3-1 Transition, 1994-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-203 The Russian Regional Files, 1992-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-210 The Former Soviet Union Press Survey, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-8 OMRI Daily Digest in Russian, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-7 OMRI Daily Digest in English, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-10 OMRI Analytical Brief, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-13 OMRI Special Report: Russian Duma Election Survey, 1995
• HU OSA 205-3-14 OMRI Russian Presidential Survey, 1996
• HU OSA 205-3-12 OMRI Russian Regional Report, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-2-80 Draft Research Papers (electronic)

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 24 September 2003
Online version updated 19 April 2012