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Interview with Jill Neuendorf

A journalist in Petrozavodsk, Russia from a local online newspaper interviewed Jill Neuendorf, who was taking Russian classes there from May 15 – June 5, about her interest…

June 22, 2015

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The Department of Slavic Languages Congratulates Graduating Senior Jessica Hardin

The Department of Slavic Languages congratulates graduating senior Jessica Hardin, who has received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English in.…

May 22, 2015

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Iwona Sadowska Receives the Dorothy Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching

Iwona Sadowska, Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Polish Studies, is the recipient of the 2015 Dorothy Brown Award. This award honors the work of Dorothy M. Brown, who…

May 20, 2015

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2015 Pysanky Session

Above are the photos from our 2015 Pysanky making session. These are the pysanky that people made in just two hours, and many of them had never…

May 15, 2015

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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