A Moscow court has ordered the seizure of a £140 million Berkshire mansion in what has been described as a political” attack on a fugitive billionaire. A three-semester sequence (Russian 371, 372, 373) covers the most important prose texts produced within the thousand-year history of Russian letters, while a two-semester sequence (Russian 354, 355) examines the main figures and movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry.
While the Cold War is behind us and the Soviet Union no longer exists as America’s greatest adversary, there are still many legitimate reasons for studying Russian. RFP has an Introductory Track for students with little or no prior experience in Russian and an Advanced Track for students who already read, write, and speak Russian well enough to participate in general discussions of academic topics. We hope this site helps all those people who are thinking about learning Russian. Sources said Russian officials were irritated …
