Category: Education, Academia

EVENT & CALL FOR PAPERS: ASN 2014 Convention Call for Papers

Education, Academia, Events, Jobs, Opportunities, Calls for Papers, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's
Columbia University Campus with Main Building

From: Dominique Arel <darel@uottawa.ca> Subject: ASN 2014 Convention Call for Papers Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 Call for Papers 19th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) International Affairs Building, Columbia University, NY Sponsored by the Harriman Institute 24-26 April 2014 www.nationalities.org ***Proposal deadline: 24 October 2013*** [Please note that the deadline is earlier than […]

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Will new standards improve Russian education?

Education, Academia
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alina Lobzina, special to RBTH – September 18, 2013) During the Cold War, American students were told to study hard to compete with their Soviet counterparts. How does Russian education stack up today? Svetlana Levkovets, a 49-year-old teacher from St. Petersburg, has grown accustomed to competing with mobile phones in the classroom. Levkovets […]

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Is Russian as difficult to learn as they say?

Education, Academia
File Photo of Crowd of Russians with One Waving Russian Flag

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Alexandra Kulikova, special to RBTH – September 17, 2013) Renowned polyglot, interpreter, psycholinguist and TV host Dmitry Petrov talks about the incentives for learning the Russian language. RBTH: What is the role of psychology in foreign language learning? Dmitry Petrov (D.P.): Learning a new language is about both psychology and mathematics. A range […]

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Valdai Club opens 10th session

Education, Academia, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Valdai Club Gathering at Long Tables in Large Hall Valdai Club Gathering at Long Tables in Large Hall

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Paul Duvernet, special to RBTH – September 17, 2013) Intellectuals, politicians and journalists gathered in central Russia for four days of discussion about the country’s future. The 10th annual meeting of the Valdai Club opened Sept. 16 with a collective inquiry into the competition between identities at the international and regional levels. The […]

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10th Annual Valdai Club Meeting Opens

Education, Academia, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Russia & the West, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Valdai Club Gathering at Long Tables in Large Hall Valdai Club Gathering at Long Tables in Large Hall

(RIA Novosti – September 16, 2013) Today, beginning at 9:15 a.m. Moscow time (5:15 a.m. GMT), RIA Novosti is broadcasting live from the opening of the 10th annual meeting of the Valdai Club, a discussion forum where high-level Russian officials have been meeting with foreign political scientists since 2004. A recording of the event will be posted after the broadcast […]

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Eighteen Russian Universities Placed in Top World Rankings

Education, Academia
Moscow State University

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, September 10, 2013) ­ Eighteen Russian universities made the list of the best 800 educational institutions in the world this year, according to the tenth annual World University Rankings compiled by QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Moscow State University remained in the top 200 despite moving back four spots compared with last year, from 116 to 120. In […]

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From no child left behind to every man for himself

Education, Academia, Science, Technology, Engineering
File Photo of Test Tubes with Algae Displaying Different Colors, Part of U.S. Energy-Related Research; from nrel.gov

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – Natalia Savitskaya, special to RBTH – rbth.ru – September 2, 2013) During the Soviet era, teachers and scientists were revered and their dedication to their work reflected their status. Now that today’s students aspire to careers in business or entrepreneurship, are educational standards slipping? In the Soviet Union, no child left behind was the rule, […]

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Why American students still go to Russia

Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Moscow State University

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Pavel Koshkin, RBTH – September 5, 2013) Video “What drives Americans to go to Russia?” here: http://rbth.ru/multimedia/video/2013/09/05/what_drives_americans_to_go_to_russia_29539.html Despite another decline in U.S.-Russian relations, interest in Russia among American students is steadily growing. This indicates that exchange programs remain a powerful tool for rooting out the Cold War mentality. Although U.S.-Russian relations are not […]

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Stalin Won’t Be Called a ‘Bloody Butcher’ in New Standardized History Texts

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Prison in Russia with Wall, Barbed Wire, Guard Tower

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – September 6, 2013) The October Revolution will be considered a “process” and the term “bloody butcher” won’t be applied to Soviet leader Josef Stalin or his henchmen. Russian historians are on their way to creating a single standard for how history is taught to schoolchildren. Historians from the Russian Academy of Sciences reached several agreements […]

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Reminder: Call for Nominations Klebnikov Fellowship Program [by September 15]

Education, Academia, Jobs, Opportunities, Calls for Papers, Life in Russia, Culture, Arts, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's
Columbia University Campus with Main Building

Subject: Reminder: Call for Nominations Klebnikov Fellowship Program From: The Paul Klebnikov Fellowship at the Harriman Institute <lch2111@columbia.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:06:20 +0000 Columbia/Harriman Institute Dear Friends and Colleagues, We write to ask for your help in identifying extraordinary candidates for the Harriman Institute’s Paul Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellowship for the 2013/14 academic year (much gratitude to […]

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State-Funded Study Abroad Program Delayed, Report Says

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Moscow State University

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – August 20, 2013) The Kremlin has held back a proposed program to give financial support to the most talented Russian students undertaking postgraduate degrees in top foreign universities, because there is no guarantee that the economy will benefit from the outlay, a news report said Tuesday. The program was aimed at raising the standard of […]

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Russians Flocking to Britain’s Boarding Schools

Britain, UK, United Kingdom, Children, Adoptions, Orphans, Education, Academia, Europe, EU
File Photo of British Parliament Building Including Saint Stephen's Tower Containing Big Ben

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Des Brown – August 12, 2013) Come September, more than 2000 schoolchildren across Russia will be packing their luggage and decamping to the houses of the most traditional of British institutions – the boarding school –  entering a world of prep and pastoral care, a world of Mr. Chips, the Eton Boating Song and Harry […]

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Vice Rector Follows Guriev Out of New Economic School

Education, Academia
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – July 31, 2013) A renowned economist is following in the footsteps of Sergei Guriev by leaving the New Economic School in Moscow. Konstantin Sonin, vice rector and director for undergraduate studies, has accepted a position with Moscow’s Higher School of Economics amid differences with the leadership that has taken the helm of the New Economic […]

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Foreign Language Skills Valued by Russians, Poll Says

Education, Academia, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas
World Map Showing Continents, Greens, Browns, Ice

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – July 24, 2013) Nearly 60 percent of the Russians speak at least one foreign language, while almost half would like to learn one, a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation found. Fifty-seven percent of the poll’s participants said they know a foreign language with English the most common at 38 percent of respondents. German […]

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Call for Nominations: Klebnikov Fellowship Program

Education, Academia, Environment, Human Rights, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, Opportunities
Columbia University Campus with Main Building

Subject: Call for Nominations Klebnikov Fellowship Program From: The Paul Klebnikov Fellowship at the Harriman Institute <lch2111@columbia.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 Columbia  University Harriman Institute Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Dear Friends and Colleagues, We write to ask for your help in identifying extraordinary candidates for the Harriman Institute’s Paul Klebnikov Russian Civil Society Fellowship for the 2013/14 […]

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U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program [Grants Available; application deadline Aug. 12, 2013]

Education, Academia, Nonprofits, Activists, NGO's, Opportunities, Science, Technology, Engineering, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Stylized Russian and U.S. Flags with Number 200, 1807-2007

From: “US-Russia Dialogue, Moscow” <US-RussiaDialogue@state.gov> Subject: US-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program To help foster greater contacts between Americans and Russians, the State Department is announcing the U.S.-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program, which will provide small grants to support collaboration, including meetings, virtual interactions, exchanges, and internships, between American and Russian organizations.   Applications from […]

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Facilitating Learning Russian

Children, Adoptions, Orphans, Education, Academia, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
Russian Folk Singers file photo

Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 Subject: Facilitating Learning Russian From: Ron Pope <ron42.pope@gmail.com> The current (July 29) issue of Time magazine has an article entitled “The Power of the Bilingual Brain” that presents a powerful case for encouraging every child with a connection to Russia — the children of emigres and adopted Russians – -to learn what could have been […]

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Universities ignore economy’s demands; Russian institutions produce too many lawyers and economists, not enough IT specialists

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Science, Technology, Engineering
Moscow State University

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Lyudmila Nazdracheva, special to RBTH – July 22, 2013) Almost 6 percent of Russian university graduates register at the unemployment office immediately after graduating. Lawyers lead the way in this area. There is also an excess of economists, real estate agents, travel managers, civil engineers, bankers, teachers and psychologists. Russian universities are still […]

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Bureaucrats must not teach historians how textbooks should be written – Naryshkin

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

(Interfax – KAZAN, July 16, 2013) Historians and history teachers, not bureaucrats, should decide how Russian history should be taught to Russian students, said Sergei Naryshkin, the Russian State Duma’s speaker and president of the Russian Historical Society. “Experts in history have wisely asked the Russian Historical Society to provide guidelines for teaching history as a subject, which will be […]

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Russia puts spending on guns ahead schools

Budget, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Health, Epidemics, Substance Abuse, Military, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Russian Tanks in Military Parade

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – MOSCOW BLOG – July 9, 2013) The Russian government has just approved the next three-year budget that runs to 2016 that has cut spending on education and health in favour of boosting it on reequipping the armed forces. Relations between Russia and the west are probably at their lowest ebb since the fall of […]

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FLEX Students Return Energized and Inspired for Change

Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
FLEX Student Exchange Program Logo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – June 28, 2013) Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series. For Ivan Chesnokov’s 18th birthday, his mother and stepfather redecorated his room in floor-to-ceiling posters of a fluttering American flag and the Manhattan skyline. On the wall, they hung a clock whose design was inspired by the Red Hot Chili […]

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Skolkovo Reality Becoming Less Virtual

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Science, Technology, Engineering
Skolkovo File Photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Guennadi Moukine – June 20, 2013) Hovercraft, bionic arms, space tourism and nuclear laptop batteries may all be products of the future to be created and brought to market by Skolkovo, the business education and technology center taking shape on the outskirts of Moscow. Despite a bumpy start that has included typical Russian corruption scandals, […]

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Guriev’s Exile Is a Huge Loss for Russia

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, YUKOS, Khodorkovsky
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Michael Bohm, opinion page editor of The Moscow Times – June 14, 2013) When the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opens next week, a traditional fixture of the event will be conspicuously absent: renowned economist Sergei Guriev. During the forum, Russian officials will undoubtedly repeat the usual lines about the country’s untapped potential, its attractiveness […]

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Dvorkovich Sees Possibility of Guriev Return

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, YUKOS, Khodorkovsky
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexander Bratersky – June 13, 2013) Self-exiled economist Sergei Guriev met with the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich on Wednesday in Paris ­ his first informal get together with a senior Russian official since he left the country last month, fearing pressure from law enforcement agencies. Guriev, who headed the liberal New Economic School until […]

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New Economic School never supported opposition politicians – Guriyev

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Interfax – MOSCOW, June 11, 2013) The New Economic School (NES) has never helped opposition politicians, former NES head Sergei Guriyev said in an interview with Vedomosti newspaper, published on Tuesday. “The New Economic School has never supported (opposition activist Alexei) Navalny or other opposition politicians. I supported Navalny from personal funds only,” Guriyev said. Guriyev, who gave expert opinion […]

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Russian prominent economist Guriyev does not want to be political refugee in France

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Interfax – June 11, 2013) Former head of the New Economic School (NES) Sergei Guriyev said that the reasons due to which he left Russia were personal and he did not intend to get the political refugee status in France. “I am not a political emigrant. I simply do not want to live in Russia. I repeat once again: [Russian […]

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Russian Scholars Wary After Top Economist Flees Country

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Howard Amos, RIA Novosti, MOSCOW, June 6, 2013) ­ When investigators summoned prominent Russian economist Sergei Guriev for questioning in February, his first thought was that his professional work could be paralyzed if they confiscated his computers and documents. “With other experts, they took everything away so they could not function,” Guriev told RIA Novosti by telephone from Paris, where […]

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Almost Half of Russian Students Dream of Emigrating – Poll

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Population Disaster, Demographics
Moscow State University

(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, June 6, 2013) ­ Nearly half of Russian students (45 percent) and some 38 percent of businessmen would like to leave Russia, according to a survey by the Levada Center independent pollster published on Thursday. A total of 22 percent of all respondents in the poll want to emigrate from Russia to other countries, not including […]

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Head of Major College Reportedly Emigrates Under Pressure [re: Guriev]

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Human Rights, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Sergei Guriev file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexander Bratersky – May 30, 2013) A minister said Wednesday that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s Open Government would continue to work with prominent liberal economist Sergei Guriyev despite media reports that he resigned as head of a major college and left the country under pressure from authorities. Mikhail Abyzov, the Open Government liaison holding the […]

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Young people should know ‘true essence’ of Bolotnaya Square protests – Smolensk governor

Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(Interfax – SMOLENSK, Russia, May 28, 2013) The governor of the Smolensk region has insisted on organizing discussions at local secondary schools and higher education institutions to tell students about the “true essence” of opposition rallies on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, an Interfax correspondent reported from a regional conference. “Stories are being widely told about events on Bolotnaya Square, about protest […]

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Deputy Education Minister quits amid political tensions

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(Moscow News – themoscownews.com – Anna Arutunyan – May 28, 2013) Russia’s Deputy Education Minister Igor Fedyukin announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing growing political tensions. “I hope that my departure will at least partially lower the unprecedented tensions that are [escalating] around decisions made by the ministry,” Fedyukin was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying. He thanked Education Minister […]

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Students Favor State Firms as Employers

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Empty Boardroom

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Lena Smirnova – May 23, 2013) When it comes to Russian college students’ career aspirations, Gazprom’s gas fields might as well be described as the fields of dreams, according to an annual ranking released Thursday by the Universum consulting firm. The state-owned gas giant was rated the most attractive employer by business students, with Sberbank […]

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Debate Rages Over State History Textbooks

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Yekaterina Kravtsova – April 26, 2013) This is part of an occasional series. As part of his effort to promote patriotism among younger generations of Russians, President Vladimir Putin has proposed creating a single set of history textbooks for schoolchildren, arguing that there should be more consistency in what students are taught and that textbooks […]

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Training a post-Cold War generation of security experts – collaboratively

Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Stylized Russian and U.S. Flags with Number 200, 1807-2007

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Elena Bobrova, RBTH – April 16, 2013) Russian students from a prestigious world politics program get diverse American perspectives first-hand. A more intense spotlight shines on educational cooperation as Russia and the United States seek fresh perspectives on bilateral relations despite recent shadows cast on the reset. The Center for International and Security […]

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Russians in America: Chasing a dream or unemployment?

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
U.S. Map

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Vladimir Chukov, Stepan Serdyukov, Anna Laletina, special to RBTH – April 15, 2013) RBTH continues its coverage of the U.S. Work & Travel program by asking three former participants about their experiences. The Summer Work and Travel program, created as a public diplomacy tool in 1963, allows foreign university students to work and […]

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‘Quality Issues’ Led to Work-and-Travel Visa Crunch

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Artist's Rendition of U.S. Embassy, Moscow, with the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Background

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – April 11, 2013) Concerns about participants’ safety, health and well-being are behind record visa refusal rates for Russian university students applying to work and travel in the United States this summer, a senior State Department official told an audience at the American Center in Moscow on Wednesday. Tara Sonenshine, the State Department’s […]

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U.S. Embassy Slams Door on Student Workers

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Artist's Rendition of U.S. Embassy, Moscow, with the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Background

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – April 5, 2013) Without warning or explanation, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has rejected an unprecedented percentage of Russian university students applying for visas to take part in the State Department’s popular Summer Work and Travel program this year, dashing hopes and placing the program’s future in doubt. About 80-90 percent of […]

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Putin Borrows From Soviet Union on Social Justice

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of Vladimir Putin at Desk

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – April 1, 2013) President Vladimir Putin described the Soviet Union as a land of opportunity and called for two Soviet relics, mandatory school uniforms and the “Hero of Labor” award, to be dusted off in the name of social justice, during an informal meeting with supporters in Rostov-on-Don on Friday. The Soviet […]

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Russia Needs Standard Approach to Teaching History – Putin

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 29 (RIA Novosti) ­ President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia needs a unified, standard approach to teaching history. “I fully agree that there should be a canonical version of our history,” Putin said Friday while meeting with his campaigners from the All-Russia People’s Front. He acknowledged that there are different opinions concerning history textbooks in high schools, […]

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New history textbooks may promote conservative values in Russia

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – www.rbth.ru – Stanislav Kuvaldin, special to RBTH – March 22, 2013) A single textbook is being drafted in Russia, following Putin’s call for a single concept of Russian history. The Russian government has tasked scholars with preparing a single textbook of the history of Russia, to replace the host of Russian history manuals on the […]

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Russian schools could switch to single history textbook in a year – education minister

Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

(Interfax – March 17, 2013) Russian schools could switch to a single history textbook in a year, Education and Science Minister Dmitry Livanov said on Pozner program on Chainmen One. “A good history textbook, just one, will always give room for analysis, for assessing various theories of what actually happened, and for different historical concepts,” Livanov said. The history manual […]

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Accusations of Plagiarism Become a Political Weapon

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Natalya Krainova – March 13, 2013) Members of the political opposition often accuse state officials of grandiose misdeeds, such as falsifying election results, stealing millions from state coffers, or even ordering the killings of their adversaries. Lately, they have begun accusing pro-Kremlin officials of a far less sinister offense, one more often leveled at schoolchildren […]

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Five New Statistics about Russia That Say More Than a Glance Might Suggest

Education, Academia, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Military, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Race, Ethnic, Extremism, Xenophobia, Religion
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, March 1, 2013 – http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/03/window-on-eurasia-five-new-statistics.html) Five new statistics about Russia this past week ­ one about Muslims in the army, a second about the state of its roads, a third about the number of illegal migrants in the country, a fourth about Russian attitudes toward religious instruction in the schools, and a […]

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Giving all Children the Right to Learn

Disabilities, Education, Academia, Health, Epidemics, Substance Abuse, Human Rights
File Photo of U.S. Diplomat Teaching Class to Russian Students

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – www.rbth.ru – Svetlana Smetanina, special to RBTH – February 26, 2013) A new law on education soon to be passed in Russia will allow parents of children with special needs to demand that their children be educated in regular state schools. Moscow Technological High School 1540 has been teaching children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) […]

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS: New Russia Policy & Society MSc and PhD Programmes at King’s College London, King’s Russia Institute

Education, Academia, Europe, EU, Jobs, Opportunities, Calls for Papers
File Photo of British Parliament Building Including Saint Stephen's Tower Containing Big Ben

From: “Samuel Greene” <samuel.greene@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: New Russia policy & society programmes in London Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 The King’s Russia Institute at King’s College London is now accepting applications for our MSc in Russian Politics & Society and our PhD in Russian & Eurasian Studies. Offering a unique, multi-disciplinary and globally integrated approach to the study of Russia’s most […]

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Medvedev Advises Students on Matters of the Heart

Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Dmitry Medvedev file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – February 14, 2013) Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told students at the Siberian Federal University on Thursday that the key to success in love is persistence. When asked how to be successful in dating by a student, Medvedev immediately responded with, “That’s the spirit!” before revealing that he has “had many experiences, as any human being […]

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Urals students reap benefits of Russian-U.S. exchange

Children, Adoptions, Orphans, Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
FLEX Student Exchange Program Logo

(Russia Beyond the Headlines –  www.rbth.ru – Nadezhda Gavrilova, special to RBTH – February 11, 2013 – Nadezhda Gavrilova is a reporter for Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of educational exchange programs between the United States and the Urals. U.S. Consul General in Yekaterinburg, Michael Reinert, talks to Rossiyaskaya Gazeta’s Nadezhda Gavrilova about the direction that educational exchange […]

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Medvedev Backs Ph.D. Plagiarism Crackdown

Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Education, Academia
Dmitry Medvedev file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – February 7, 2013) Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that the “number of phony doctorates surpasses all possible limits,” and that he supported a crackdown on plagiarism in Ph.D. dissertations. Allegations of plagiarized dissertations have hit some of the state’s highest officials, including Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky and even President Vladimir Putin, who the Brookings […]

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The Doors I Closed When I Came to the US

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
United States Map

(Voice of America – Anna Malinovskaya – January 22, 2013) Perhaps all international students discover at some point that going to college in the States costs more than they pay in money terms. I have experienced personal costs that will impact my life long after my education here is done. Some I was prepared to encounter, and others caught me […]

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State Recommends Schoolchildren Watch 100 Films

Children, Adoptions, Orphans, Education, Academia, Life in Russia, Culture, Arts
Movie Theater file photo

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexander Bratersky – January 18,  2013) The culture and education ministers on Thursday presented a list of 100 Soviet and Russian films that schools will be advised to show students to strengthen their cultural values and to build bonds with their parents and teachers from older generations. “This is not a list of the best […]

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