Russia and the Successor States http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday POLS/RUSS 4362 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:43:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Study Abroad in Russia http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/04/05/study-abroad-in-russia/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/04/05/study-abroad-in-russia/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:43:46 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/?p=86 Here is a pdf version of the slideshow with links to Study Abroad programs and scholarships.

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/04/05/study-abroad-in-russia/feed/ 0 Dr. (Maggie) Harrison’s lecture on Russian Diaspora http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/03/29/dr-maggie-harrisons-lecture-on-russian-diaspora/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/03/29/dr-maggie-harrisons-lecture-on-russian-diaspora/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:27:39 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/?p=82 Click here to view Dr. Harrison’s slideshow in a pdf file: RUSSIAN DIASPORA

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/03/29/dr-maggie-harrisons-lecture-on-russian-diaspora/feed/ 0 RUSS Translation and Analysis project http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/03/04/russ-translation-and-analysis-project/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/03/04/russ-translation-and-analysis-project/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:37:27 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/?p=79 The term project for RUSS students is now available. Click on the “RUSS 4362 Term Assignment” tab above.

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/03/04/russ-translation-and-analysis-project/feed/ 0 Dr. Williford’s slideshow http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/02/25/dr-willifords-slideshow/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/02/25/dr-willifords-slideshow/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:03:46 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/?p=73 Russian Revolutions and Marxism in Russia

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/02/25/dr-willifords-slideshow/feed/ 0 What happened to those Soviet statues and monuments? http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/28/what-happened-to-those-soviet-statues-and-monuments/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/28/what-happened-to-those-soviet-statues-and-monuments/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:08:20 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/?p=69 Check out this link to friend and colleague Joseph Liro’s post on the fate of some of the monumental art of Soviet Russia.

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/28/what-happened-to-those-soviet-statues-and-monuments/feed/ 0 Spring Semester, 2013 http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/13/spring-semester-2008/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/13/spring-semester-2008/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:24:11 +0000 psmith http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2008/01/07/spring-semester-2008/ “Russia Today” is an inter-disciplinary class—drawing primary instructors from the Departments of Political Science and Modern Languages—which depicts and prepares students to analyze the monumental changes that have and are taking place in the geopolitical space of the former Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). This course includes an overview of the region’s geography, history, political development, Russian language and literature, and various facets of life in Russia and the former U.S.S.R. including societal institutions and changes, economic forces, and political futures for this strategically important area.

The course syllabus is online here, in .pdf form here.

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/13/spring-semester-2008/feed/ 0 A brief history of modern Russia http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/12/a-brief-history-of-modern-russia/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/12/a-brief-history-of-modern-russia/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:21:23 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/?p=56 “Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power…”

Click here to view this BBC News Russia country profile.

]]> http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2013/01/12/a-brief-history-of-modern-russia/feed/ 0 Русский алфавит http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2011/01/26/%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%84%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%82/ http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2011/01/26/%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%84%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%82/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:26:24 +0000 lonnyh http://blog.uta.edu/russiatoday/2009/02/02/%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%84%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%82/ Click here to view the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet.

Click here to learn the Russian Cyrillic letters and their sounds (page 1).

Click here to learn the Russian Cyrillic letters and their sounds (page 2).

Click here to practice reading and pronouncing the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet.

Click here for reading and cursive writing practice.

Here are some more links and language tools:

Online Russian keyboard

Practice the alphabet and learn basic vocabulary

Multitran online Russian dictionary

Study Russian online

Another versatile learning tool

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