W&M annual student Russian language contest

Congratulations to Grace Kier, Joseph Bistransky, and George Barros on winning the Schuman Challenge!

Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Program would like to invite you for student run film series.

Global Film Festival will take place between January 31 and February 3, 2019 - Victoria Belopolskaya is one of GFF guests brought by Russian and Post Soviet Program

Two Tepper guest speakers will be visiting in Spring 2019.

RPSS Monroe Scholars, Catherine Green and Callaway Sprinkle, present their summer research at the Summer Research Showcase.

Fall Semester Film Series - Scenes of Siberia

Two Russian and Post Soviet Studies got awarded for theirs great achievements!

A special performance by Tsygankov (domra) and Shevchenko (piano) at Our Lady of Walsingham, 520 Richmond Rd (April 22, 2018, 3 pm)

Film series organized by students of RPSS.

Three guest lectures by leading scholars in the field of Russian revolutionary studies.

The following books by William & Mary faculty members were published in 2017.

Sasha Prokhorov had seen St. Petersburg many times through the eyes of the William & Mary students participating in his study-abroad classes to Russia. Never had he seen it through the lenses of the video cameras they carried.

Total of 27 Global Studies students graduated on May 13th 2017!!!

Twenty talented and trailblazing professors from William & Mary have been selected to receive the 2017 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence.

Edward Snowden spoke via webcast to a full house in the Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium as part of a student-organized event co-hosted by the campus media council and the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.

Andy Bruno, Environment and Power in the Soviet Arctic (Thursday, February 9, 4:30 pm, Andrews 101)

Upcoming lecture on the Russian judicial system on Tuesday November 15 at 4.30 pm in Tucker Hall 127A

Come cheer on our Russian Music Ensemble for a winter concert in Ewell Hall, 4 December, 4.30 pm.

Screening and discussion with the director, Jessica Oreck, Tuesday, November 1, Tucker 127A, 4:30 pm

Representing the humanities, Prokhorova, a Russian studies and film and media studies associate professor, defeated Marcus Holmes (government), Rowan Lockwood (geology) and Ryan Vinroot (mathematics).

Application for the 2017 Critical Language (CLS) Program is 16 November 2016 at 8 am

Lena wins!

Vadim Shneyder will be delivering a lecture on "Russia's Capitalist Realism" on Friday, October 14, 2016 in Blow 331 at 3:30 pm

The President of the William and Mary Russian Music Ensemble, Gabriella Carney, performs with Washington Balalaika Society in the DC area.

W&M's student-led Bosnia Project continues to have an impact 20 years after peace was brokered in the region.

The project captures the Best Practices in International Education Award for Student Philanthropy. The project will now be housed at ITPIR

Five local premieres, sneak preview from Sundance, special guests, film competitions and more highlight 2015 event.

William & Mary Dining Services welcomed Russian Chef Sergey Malyshev to the campus Oct. 20 and 21 as part of its Global Chef Program.

On May 10th 2014 over 84 IR and 30 GS majors celebrated their graduation at PBK Hall. Congratulations Class of 2014!!!

Matthew Murray, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia U.S. Department of Commerce. The lecture will be held on April 17th, 5-7pm, Blow Hall 331

The award seeks to recognize a graduating Russian Studies major for her contributions in research and language studies.

On March 21st at 5:15 pm our five students and the Russian House Tutor Olga Makarova were inducted into Dobro Slovo, the National Slavic Honor Society. Congratulations to them on this honor! This year marks the 20th Anniversary of our Chapter! Our induction ceremony took place in the historic Wren Chapel.

Friday, March 28th 2014,3:30pm - 4:30pm Andrews Hall, Room 101

Students taking Russian language classes at the College of William and Mary took part in the 2nd Russian Language Olympics on March, 22nd, 2014. Congratulations to the winners and participants!

Professor Yanni Kotsonis (Department of History, New York University) will give his presentation “Taxes and the Modern Citizen. How Taxes in Russia, the USSR, and the World Shaped Governments, Peoples, and Persons in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”.

Film Screening Bed and Sofa (1927) by Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Program

Pr. Russel Zanca will give a talk on “Nationalism and the Myth of Turkic-Muslim Unity in Central Asia” Thursday, March 13th, 5:00pm, Tucker 127A.

Our congratulations to Rachel Faith '14 who has been awarded the 2014 National ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award. Way to go, Rachel!

Join us to celebrate Maslenitsa on Saturday, Ferbuary 22nd at 5 pm. The event will be held in the Russian House (Randolph Complex, Pleasants Hall, 3rd floor)

February 5th, Wednesday, Blow Hall 331, 5pm

A W&M junior is spending the academic year in Russia and China to further her dream of becoming a professional interpreter.