Looking for texts in slavic languages

[Alain Dawson]

Dear SEELANGS subscribers,

I'm currently carrying on a research into mutual intelligibility among
Slavic languages, and more precisely about how Russians understand texts
written in other Slavic languages without having learnt them. For my
experiments, I need a collection of short texts (20-50 lines) on various
topics, from various sources (newspapers, novels, theater, technical
literature..., but preferably not poems) in all the Slavic languages except
Russian, with especial consideration to very closely related languages
(Ukrainian, Byelorussian). Those texts should be relatively homogenous and
self-comprehensible, and a translation in english, russian or french should
be provided, if possible. Texts in cyrillic can be provided in any encoding
system (KOI-8 or CP-1251). Texts in latin alphabet should not ignore the
various slavic supersigns, as it often occurs on the Web.

Can anyone help me by providing such materials from his electronic archive?
You can e-mail it to me, eventually as on attached WinWord document in
order to keep the alphabet encoding. Thank you in advance!

Alain Dawson
PhD Student
University of Paris-4 (Sorbonne), department of Slavistics