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McTighe Address by Russian Major Hannah Schneider At Convocation

A few weeks ago I was not far from Crimea. In fact, I was locked in a house between Chechnya and Crimea with an eccentric babushka who was trying to force-feed me potatoes. I…

September 22, 2014

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A Film Screening – The Gift to Stalin

THE GIFT TO STALIN Dir. Rustem Abdrashev (95 min, Kazakhstan/Russia, 2008)In Russian, Kazakh, and Hebrew with English SubtitlesNarrative  Date:Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Time:7…

September 22, 2014

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Russian Major Wins 2014 McTighe Prize

The 2014 McTighe Prize has been awarded to Russian major Hannah Schneider. Hannah is a member of the Class of 2015, and is pursuing a major in Russian and a minor in Government…

September 22, 2014

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Russian Major Hannah Schneider Founds Music from the Mountains

Hannah Schneider, a Russian major at Georgetown, recently founded Music from the Mountains, a project to help promote struggling musicians from the North Caucasus in…

September 22, 2014

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Russian Major Hannah Schneider Heads to the North Caucasus

Russian major Hannah Schneider is taking a semester off to travel to Russia, first to work as an interpreter at the Sochi Winter Olympics and then to record an album of young…

September 22, 2014

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Congratulations to our students and alumni!

Slavic Languages congratulates its wonderful students on the very prestigious awards they have won this year. Jonathan Askonas is the recipient of a Beineke Scholarship,…

September 22, 2014

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Film Screening and Discussion

Messenger from Poland: Jan Karski’s Personal Testimony Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 6:30 pm in Reynolds Hall Room 133 The Department of Slavic Languages together with CERES…

September 22, 2014

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Pysanky – Easter Egg Workshop

Dear All, Easter is coming! Here, in the US, people start buying chocolate bunnies and egg-shaped candy. Do you remember Easter Egg Hunts from your long-forgotten childhood?…

September 22, 2014