Mark London <mrl@...> asked about searching Russian newspapers.
Some have been digitized and are online while others are on microfilm in
major libraries. A quick Google search turns up, for example,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives

http://www.bl.uk/eresources/newspapers/colindale2.html

I've read microfilmed Russian papers at the Harvard libraries:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/widener/collections/newspapers/index.html

The Library of Congress has these:

https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/newspapers/ru/runews6.html

Alan Shuchat
Newton, MA

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Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoye), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki,
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