Twenty hours per week of Russian language training. Individualized Russian Tutoring and Intensive Russian also available in most locations.

Intense language study, cultural immersion, and classes in history, politics, economics, and culture. For those planning a professional career with ties to Russia.

Professional, hands-on translation experience and intensive Russian lessons! A unique program to jump-start your career as a translator!

Twenty hours per week of Russian or Kyrgyz. Try our Kyrgyz Summer Adventure and mix language training and one week trekking the rugged local mountains on horseback, Kyrgyz-style!

An excursion-based program teaching art history through the famed collections of St. Petersburg's museums. Practice studio art, perform independent study, and/or intern with the Hermitage Youth Center!

Historically turbulent ties between Russia and China. Current trade in energy, arms, and consumer goods. Competition for influence in Central Asia. Chinese interest in Siberian investments.

From colonialism to industrialization to modern Siberia. Environmental, economic, and demographic problems. Combines academic courses with an environmental internship for a broad understanding of the region.

The history and current state of the Russian Far East: military and economic importance; demographic, environmental and other problems. Anthropology-intensive track available for adv. Russian speakers.

Enroll for regular semester classes, conducted in Russian and attended by the diverse student population of MGIMO, Russia's premier institution for politics and international relations.

Intensive Russian lessons combined with professional experiance in Russia and a resume-building research project.

Intensive Russian lessons and courses covering the current Russian mass media. Includes internship with Moscow's most circulated English-language daily, researching stories in Russian and English and reporting in English.

The grant awards $500-1000 to one goal-oriented student per semester.

The grant awards $1000 to one upperclassman or graduate student per year to conduct research in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, or Ukraine.

Degree programs at Russian universities are becoming more and more appealing as costs continue to escalate at home and as more and more professionals trained in Russia successfully test their skills in the West.