Questions ???

Here are some advices sent to other people.

• Could I use some of your pictures on my site? - visitors ask this question most frequently. In fact, the answer was already given on page that contains Disclaimer and Copyright information. If you are intended to use images for non-commercial, personal purposes (e.g., for educational purposes), then probably authors of pictures will not mind against such usage of their photos. In doubt, e-mail your question to the appropriate contact person, i.e., to the person who provided originally photos which you like. Please ask RusPhoto ONLY, if you would like to use commercialy some pictures owned by RusPhoto. Please do NOT ask maintainers of RusPhoto about other photos.
• RusPhoto maintaines its own Interactive Guestbook. It is visited daily by many people. Please leave your question/request there, if you would like to receive a feedback. If you will provide there your e-mail address, then your question/request may be answered by another visitor.
• So, we want to visit ... Could you give us some advice? and other travel-related questions.
• Try to use the ordinary sources of information (say, encyclopedia). If you have money, you can subscribe to Britannica Online ("Subscription Information"). A one year subscription to Britannica Online for home/family use is $150; and for individuals for business/professional use is $300. If you have questions about subscription, please send e-mail to inquiries@eb.com
• If the largest library near you home do NOT have directories, encyclopedia, maps or other information sources necessary to answer your question, you can ask for assistance the Library of Congress (without any garantee that it will answer you), or search catalogs of this library on-line.
• Post your question in one of the newsgroups (please choose the newsgroup which is the most appropriate for your question)
  • soc.culture.soviet
  • soc.culture.russian
  • alt.current-events.russia
  • rec.travel library search form
  • Search Usenet: DejaNews query form
  Please ask your local system operator or network administrator how you can subscribe to those newsgroups and/or post question in a newsgroup.
• If you have a question which is concerned with a particular region of Russia, you may wish to explore all links provided on the corresponding page of this server. In some cases, webmasters of linked sites can be helpfull in answering your query. Because you are intended to ask somebody spend his/her personal time on helping you, it is a good idea to think before whether you are ready to pay that person money for information search. Please do not consider this idea as a nasty advice. Remember, that webmasters in Russia usually experience hardship, and webmasters of Russia-related servers in other countries usually are graduate students, and they absolutely do not have time to solve your problems.
• Visit other big servers ! They provide extensive lists of Russia-related links. The following two sites are very rich sources of economic, demographic, sociological and political information. You will find there people with interests similar to yours and newsgroups where you can post your urgent questions.
  • Friends and Partners
  • Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources
• You can find additional textual information in Impressions of Russia and the Former USSR.
• Search the Web !

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