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http://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/life/the-language-of-friendship-pen-pals-project-helps-students-connect/article_d04f8e30-2b08-11ec-98c4-933c08bae4be.html Irina Pidberejna said she took an intermediate Russian course her junior year of college because growing up in Ukraine had given her a knack for the language. However, the people and places the course has brought her to are things she said she would have never expected. “The Russian program at UCF is really one of a kind,” said Pidberejna, a visual arts and emerging media management alumna. “Finding these opportunities, you feel really lucky to be involved in it.…

Mariana Kellis, College of Arts and Humanities, is a history major with minors in political science, Russian studies, and a TEFL certificate. Mariana has served as President and Secretary of the Russian American Student Association, Secretary of UKnighting the World Through Literacy, and Senator for the Student Government Senate during the 52nd session. She has researched social class relations during the Russian Imperial era. Her Honors Undergraduate Thesis discusses the perspectives of American abolitionists on Russian serfdom during the Antebellum…