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Call for Applications! 2013 Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois

December 29, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia

From: “REEEC <University of Illinois>” <reeec_resources@mx.uillinois.edu> Subject: Call for Applications! 2013 Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to all scholars with research interests in the Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks during the summer months from June 10 until August […]

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Russian-Language Textbooks Stir Controversy

December 27, 2012 JRL Russia List Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Russia & the West

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Patrick Reevell – December 26, 2012) A policeman says in Russian: “I work a lot, sometimes even too much. … Winter or summer, rain or shine, I go from a bank to a store, from a store to a restaurant, from a restaurant to a market, looking for where to take money.” What’s wrong with […]

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Leave a comment Duma, Education, Klintsevich, Language, Russia and the West, Travel

Moscow Students Invoke Putin for Protection in Rare Strike

December 26, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia

MOSCOW, December 26 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti) Moscow students on strike to protest the merger of their college plastered the premises with portraits of President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to repel possible police attacks, a strike organizer said on Wednesday. “Riot police are known to crack down on protesters who do not represent a threat, we hope this […]

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Russian Students Astonished by U.S. Holiday Cheer

December 21, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jonathan Earle – December 21, 2012) Many travelers have pined for home during the holiday season. It’s the lucky exception who, finding himself in company of new friends, realizes that he’s found a home away from home. Kirov native Ivan Chesnokov, 17, was celebrating Thanksgiving Day in Gladewater, Texas, chowing down on turkey and chatting […]

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Russian Opposition Leaders Attend Student Protest

December 19, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – Leading opposition figures joined students protesting against the inclusion of their university on Russia’s notorious “list of inefficient colleges” on Tuesday evening. Leftist opposition figure Sergei Udaltsov and two State Duma lawmakers from the A Just Russia party, Ilya Ponomaryov and Dmitry Gudkov, visited students, who began their sit-in in a lecture hall of […]

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Diaspora Youths Sold on Russian, but not Russia

December 17, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia, Population Disaster, Demographics

Map of Western CIS/FSU and European Environs

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Lena Smirnova – Dec. 14, 2012) Members of the diaspora who gathered in Moscow on Thursday for the Forum of Russian Compatriots welcomed President Vladimir Putin’s recent edict to support remote Russian language-learning amid efforts in their home countries to limit the status of their mother tongue. However, attendees also voiced doubts that the language […]

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Corruption, corruption, corruption

December 1, 2012 JRL Russia List Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Education, Academia

File Photo of Two Persons Shaking Hands and Exchanging Cash

(Augusto Come – www.opendemocracy.net – Augusto Come is a student of the Paris School of International Affairs and Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He is interested in issues of democracy and transition in the post-Soviet space – Nov. 29, 2012) Russia’s higher education institutions are popularly assumed to be among the most corrupt in the country. Augusto Come […]

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Medvedev confirms education development program through 2020

November 27, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia

Russian Schoolchildren with U.S. Official

(Interfax – November 27, 2012) Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has confirmed the state program for the development of education for 2013-20, the government press service reported on Tuesday. “The goals set in the program are to make the quality of Russian education compliant with citizens’ changing demands and with the strategy of Russia’s social and economic development, and to enhance […]

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Medvedev Pledges Education Spending to Match Defense

October 12, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia, Military

MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti)-Russia will spend almost a trillion US dollars by 2020 to improve its educational standards and promote the country’s innovation-based development, matching what it will spend on defense, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “Russia’s planned consolidated budget spending on education will be about 8 trillion rubles [$258 billion] by 2015, and the spending forecast […]

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Teachers Reveling in Growing Technology

October 5, 2012 JRL Russia List Education, Academia

File Photo of Little Girl at Computer Next to Globe

Lena Smirnova – Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – October 5, 2012 Thousands of kilometers from the capital, a lone interactive whiteboard sits in a customs warehouse on Russia’s southern border. The device’s Turkish manufacturer, Vestel, is rushing to get the unit to its Moscow showroom and start selling the product to schools. But more than two months is expected to […]

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