The Essentials
All Programs
Year High School
Global Prep
Digging Deeper
Language Resources
- Rosetta Stone: Russian
- Duolingo (free language learning app)
- Memrise: Russian
- LiveMocha: Russian
- BBC Language
- Russian for Everyone
- Akademik (Dictionary/Translator)
Cultural Resources
- Hofstede Center: Russia
- BBC: Russia History Timeline
- Russian-American Cultural Center
- Cultural Centers around the U.S.
- —Russian Cultural Center- Our Texas
- —Russian Soul (Minneapolis, MN)
- —Russian Center of San Francisco
- —Russian Cultural Center, Washington, DC.
- —Russian-American Cultural Center
- Culture Grams
- –Username: afsusa – Password: cgrams
News and Media
- Pravda (Russian and English)
- Ria Novosti (Russian)
- The Moscow Times (English)
- Russkoe Radio
- Russia Today (This source can be controversial due to political biases)
- BBC Russia (Russian)
- Radio Free Europe (Russian and English)
Movies and Documentaries
- Kuka (2007)
- Burnt by the Sun (1994)
- The Romanovs: An Imperial Family (2000)
- Russian Ark (2002)
- War and Peace (1966)
- The Italian (2005)
- Everything is Illuminated (2005)
- Night Watch (2004)
- My Perestroika (2010)
- The Man Who Saved the World (2014)
- Khodorkovsky (2011)
- Pripyat (1999)
- Stateless (2014)
- Russia: A Journey with Jonathon Dimbleby (2008)
- Wild Russia (series) (2009)
Books
- Crime and Punishment
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- The Bronze Horseman
- Doctor Zhivago
- Everything is Illuminated
- Night Watch
- A Taste of Russia: A Cookbook of Russian Hospitality
- Travels in Siberia
- A Concise History of Russia
- Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
LGBTQ Resources (Diversity)
Heritage and Ethnicity Resources (Diversity)