In addition to The World Factbook from Central Intelligence Agency, Background Notes from State Department, Country Study from Library of Congress, you may want to consult these other sources to identify possible positions your country may take for historical, political, economic or other reasons.
Covers North American and some European scholarship since the late 1980s on East-Central Europe, Russia, the former Soviet Union and former Soviet republics. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.
Not all articles are available in databases that UCLA subscribes to. The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) has a number of databases available to anyone with an LAPL library card. You can get an ECARD online-no need to go to a library.