For recruiting

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

For those of us in the throes of recruiting students for fall 2005 Russian
language classes:

>From April Joey Tartakovsky¹s 25, 205 review of Russia in Search of Itself
by James Billington
(http://claremont.org/writings/crb/spring2005/tartakovsky.html):

> But one thing is certain. Russia possesses one-third of the world's natural
> gas, 7% of its oil, one-fifth of its precious metals, endless forest and
> farmland, ports on seven seas, the world's second-largest nuclear stockpile,
> and 140 million patient and educated citizens‹all spread across eleven time
> zones. This means that no matter how stormy its progress, Russia will matter.
> Like the ocean, the strength of a nation is a matter of ebb and flow.

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor and Chair, Slavic Dept.
1432 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

Director, Title VI Center for Russia, E. Europe & Central Asia (CREECA)
210 Ingraham Hall, 1550 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-3379; Fax (608) 890-0267
http://www.wisc.edu/creeca

 




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