On October 7, Russian Flagship Program faculty, staff, students and their parents gathered in the Queen Anne Lounge to recognize its first alumni cohort and celebrate their accomplishments. Through the Russian Flagship Program, UNCRFP’s alumni Griffin McGuire, John Kolodich, and … Read more

I started at UNC Chapel Hill last fall with a few years of Russian-learning experience, and I spent my first year working hard to improve my skills through classes, Flagship tutoring, organized events, extracurricular opportunities, and friendly conversations. Over the … Read more

This past summer, I participated in the Language Workshop offered by the University of Indiana in Bloomington. At first, I was unsure as to what to expect, considering I had never met anyone at UNC that had participated in the … Read more

This summer I was awarded funding through the UNC Russian Flagship Program’s Student Professional Development to work in the Andrews Lab at Duke University with Dr. Edna Andrews. My summer project was related to improving the quality of Online Russian … Read more

This past summer, I studied abroad for 8 weeks through the School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) in Batumi, Georgia. It was my first time participating in a study abroad program, and it was certainly one of the best … Read more

My name is Yueun Kang, and I am currently studying abroad in Tbilisi, Georgia through the Critical Language Scholarship funded by the U.S. Department of State. With the guidance of professors in the UNC Russian Flagship Program, I have been … Read more

I’m willing to take a bet that very few Tarheels have ever been to Kazakhstan; home of our Russian Flagship Program’s Capstone program. This was certainly the case for me as I set off for the RLASP Summer Immersion program … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Russian Flagship Program (RFP) has completed its second year, and its students are continuing to make great achievements. Four received Critical Language Scholarships, three earned Boren scholarships, one received a Gilman scholarship and two were selected for Project … Read more

Miguel Angel Bahena Schott, Tekla Maisashvili, Micah McMinn, Quintin Gay, and Samuel Quesada represented the UNC-CH Russian Flagship Program at the National Language Flagship Program Hackathon (University of Maryland, College Park, April 8–9, 2022), where they worked with other Flagship … Read more

Lucas Risinger first became intrigued by Russia’s history and culture in high school when his history class was learning about the Cold War. When he arrived at Carolina a few years later to study economics and math, he continued to … Read more