soc.culture.russian
All things Russian in the broadest sense.
A vast group covering Russia and the Russian-speaking world through the Yeltsin and early Putin years: politics and privatisation, literature threads of genuine erudition, KOI8-R encoding wars, and diaspora life from Brighton Beach to Berlin.
It maintained complicated, active borders with the national groups of former Soviet republics — the crossposts tell that story by themselves.
Reading soc.culture.russian today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.russian (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.