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In 2018, for the ninth year in a row, the Russian American Foundation has been selected for the highly prestigious NSLI FOR YOUTH Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with American Councils for International Education.
The purpose of the RCC is to develop and maintain positive relations between the Russian and American people by sponsoring activities in the five areas of Education, The Arts, Commerce, Athletics and Science.
Prior to the 1600s China and Russia were on opposite ends of Siberia, which was populated by independent nomads.By about 1640 Russian settlers had traversed most of Siberia and founded settlements in the Amur River basin.
Although Russian-American relations in general have seen huge degradation during the past years which was not initiated by Russia, with our bilateral contacts shut down by the U.S. side in many areas, culture remains one of the few spheres where constructive cooperation is still possible.
Direct flight connections between Russia and the US could come to a complete halt, due to Washington’s ongoing “visa blockade” policy against Russian citizens, the Foreign Ministry has said.
Russian culture has a long history. Russia claimed a long tradition of dividend in many aspects of the arts, especially when it comes to literature, philosophy, classical music, ballet, architecture, painting, cinema, animation and politics, which all had considerable influence on world culture.
In my nearly 20 years experience as a Russian living in the West, I have found that almost all my fellows can be reduced to five basic types: 1) The White Russian; 2) The Sovok Jew; 3) The Egghead Emigre; 4) Natasha Gold-Digger; 5) Putin’s Expat.
Russian-American relations are struggling through their most difficult period since the end of the Сold war. The former Administration of President Obama did everything possible to strain them.
History and Ethnic Relations Emergence of the Nation. The area now called Russia has always been multicultural. The Eastern Slavic tribes, the ancestors of modern Russians, traditionally are thought to have originated in the Vistula River valley in what is now Poland and to have migrated eastward in the seventh to the ninth centuries.
