Russian and Eastern European Society

Try your hand at Eastern European folk crafts through Polish wycinanki paper cutting and Karelian embroidery.

Come enjoy a sweet treat after class. Try Polish paczki and discover more about Slavic cuisines!

Join us to celebrate the Slavic holiday of Maslenitsa! Hear more about the celebration and its significance, and try some Eastern European food.

Join Russian and Eastern European Society for a trip to the BANYA (Russian Sauna) in Burlington! March 10 at 10am. Spaces limited, so please sign up fast! A google form has been sent to anyone involved in the Russian department, but please email reesorg@middlebury.edu if you did not get the form and would like to sign up!

YIPEE! RUSSIAN TEA…
EASTERN EUROPE…
CENTRAL ASIA…
EVERYONE…

YIPEE! RUSSIAN TEA…
EASTERN EUROPE…
CENTRAL ASIA…
EVERYONE…

We are going to play Russian Loto (or bingo in English). If you know numbers in Russian, please, join us! If you don’t, come with your Russian speaking friend for a chance to win some cool prizes from Kazakhstan, Russian and the United States of America! 

YIPEE! RUSSIAN TEA…
EASTERN EUROPE…
CENTRAL ASIA…
EVERYONE…

Diplomat Thomas Leary served in Russia at two very different periods: 1999-2004 and 2015-2019. His first term there came during the growing decline in U.S.-Russian relations and the difficult aftermath of Russia’s 1998 financial crisis. By the time Mr. Leary returned to St. Petersburg as U.S. Consul General in 2015, the freeze between the two countries was deepening because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile at home Russia had become both much more prosperous and more authoritarian.