Promotional Video: Why study Russian?

[Melissa T Smith]

When enrollments started to drop after the fall of the USSR, I used to
say "I guess bombs have more sex appeal than business." That was when students figured, "they're just like us," except it's colder.

Умом Россию не понять... 

Melissa Smith
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Promotional Video: Why study Russian?

We don’t need promotional videos now; Putin is our best promoter. I remember 1980 when our Russian language coordinator Hramov was totally panicked, “I don’t have so many instructors, what am I going to do?” That was the peak of Russian enrollments in the US.


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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