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Millennials studying Russian will determine the future of U.S.-Russia relations. How they differ from their Sovietologist predecessors. 

If the All-Russian Teachers' Union gets their way, a fine could take the place of detention.

Guard duty sends an old villager back to school, and down a broad and dusty lane full of memories.

As if trapped in a time warp, a remote village school in the Mari El Republic preserves a largely forgotten style of schooling, mostly cut off from the twenty-first century.

Five Russian oblasts have schooled the rest in good socio-economic policy, according to recent awards from the Expert Institute of Social Research.

A few insights to help you make it through Russian 101, from someone who's got a little experience.

“My personal opinion: any child loves running, jumping, drawing, singing, And maybe not everyone can do it ‘perfectly,’ but to give a student a ‘C’ (‘troika’) just because they lack a musical ear is, in my opinion, not right.”

– Education Minister Olga Vasilyeva

Ever wonder what we don’t publish? Well, here it is. The scraps on our cutting room floor, and last week’s fourth-best story – all collected in one wonderfully semi-interesting place.