Russian friendships

[Hunter, Robert]

        To add to what Prof. Billings wrote about Russians spending 5 years
taking the same courses and thereby developing close friendships --- since so
many people in cities lived in planned neighborhoods, kids began developing
friendships in yasli and continued being together through shkoly.  Then many
friendships continued at work or at a VUZ.
        It will be interesting to see what happens to druzhba as mobility
increases, more and more children attend special schools, and increasing
numbers of young people are able to take advantage of student exchange and
other education/travel programs.
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