BBC News on foreign students in Russia

[Mr. Mykhaylo Biyata]

Hello, Mel,

As an option you may come to Ukraine. Kiev is the best City as for me :)
Usually foreigners have no such problems here.

Regards,
Mikhail

ECHO Eastern Europe
International Center for Slavic Languages Studies
www.echoee.com


> I have the same concern - can anyone share impressions
> on the different regions or cities?  I'm jewish and
> can pass as not but my husband is more obviously
> (stereotypically?) so.  I'm hesitant to bring him,
> much less our son, which would curtail any extensive
> study or work in Russia, though obviously not short
> trips I could do on my own.
>
> It's hard to sort out the extent or scale of the
> threat because those without the same fears may
> underestimate the risk, and those of us who have
> reason to fear may perceive the overall risk as being
> greater than it actually is because we don't want to
> be that one in a million.  Ironically, I had thought
> of going to a smaller area (like Voronezh) instead of
> Moscow for this precise reason.
>
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>>
>> Date:    Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:06:11 -0800
>> From:    MEL TRIBBLE <cantgetenuffomel at YAHOO.COM>
>> Subject: Re: BBC News on foreign students in Russia
>>
>> Hello,
>>   I am an African American student and I major in
>> the Russian language.  It concerns me because this
>> is not the first article I have read about Russia
>> and racism.  I was planning to study abroad in
>> Moscow and St. Petersburg for a year.  I also
>> planned to live in Moscow to fulfill an internship
>> but now I am not so sure.  Can anyone please give me
>> some insight or advice as to what I should do?
>>
>>   Thank you for all of your comments,
>>   Mel.
>>
>> Vitaly Chernetsky <vchernet at FAS.HARVARD.EDU> wrote:
>>   Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Below pleas find the link to a news story on the
>> Russian-language site of BBC
>> news:
>>
>>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_4478000/4478446.stm
>>
>
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