What Else May You Need Russian For

EMPLOYMENT

Proficiency in Russian, a critical language, opens many doors. There are numerous job openings in such government bodies as the State Department, the Commerce Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Defense, and the various intelligence agencies.

Unlimited commercial opportunities are emerging from an expanding Russian economy. Western firms which now do business in Russia as well as newly established Russian firms which do business with the West (and indeed with everyone) have created myriad job opportunities for those with multiple language skills.

Meanwhile, Russia remains the lingua franca of a massive portion of Eurasia, so studying it opens you up to numerous NGOs, companies and government bodies both in that region and at home.

FYI:
STARTALK - Knowledge of Russian language is vital for the U.S. security

STARTALK's mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages. STARTALK offers students (K-16) and teachers of these languages creative and engaging summer experiences that strive to exemplify best practices in language educations and in language teacher development.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) launched STARTALK in 2006 and delegated executive oversight of the program to the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA partners with the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland (UMD) to act as its subject matter expert in the implementation and administration of the program..

LITERATURE

Read the prose works of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Nabokov (among many others), the poetry of Pushkin, Tiutchev, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, and Tsvetaeva in the original.

MUSIC

The classical tradition: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Stravinsky. Not to mention the rich world of Russian bard music (Vysotsky, Okudzhava, Galich), rock n’ roll (Kino, Aquarium) and pop (ViaGRA, Polina Gagarina, and many others).

ART

Repin, Brullov, Aivazovsky, Nikolai Ge, Alexander Ivanov, Chagall, Kandinsky, Malevich…
Russian music, ballet or art and architecture have been inspiring generations of artists worldwide.

FILM

Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, Vertov are foundational to the history of film.
A rich cinematic tradition has followed, from Tarkovsky to Muratova, Sokurov, and Lungin.

PHILOSOPHY/THEORY

Solovyov, Bakhtin, Shklovsky, Jakobson, and Vygotsky are just a few of those who left indelible marks on the history of cultural theory and philosophy.

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

Russia remains a major driving force. Russian carries immense promise in the development of information technology; after English, Russian is the most used language on the Internet.

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