upper-level Russian courses taught long-distance

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Kevin (and SEELANGS readers),

Re. your query about distance learning for Russian....

You might try calling the Ohio State University Slavic Department
(614/292-6733) for information about their telephone language instruction
program.  They used to offer it at multiple levels, beginning through
"advanced" (whatever that means).  If it's still offered at the advanced
levels, I would suspect even a military linguist could find such
instruction useful.  

In my experience military linguists can be very fluent in a rather
specialized area; but most of them recognize their need to broaden their
knowledge of Russian beyond the bounds of what they encountered on their
military jobs.  (Also, due to the nature of the assignments some of them
have had, they may have highly developed receptive skills while their
productive skills may be considerably weaker.)

Best of luck,

Jerry Ervin