[ASEEES] Your Input Requested on Impact of US State Dept Travel Advisory on Programs to Russia

[Park, Lynda]

This message is for non-student members at US institutions with Russian study/internship abroad programs only.

As you may know, the US State Department issued a travel advisory<https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/russia-travel-advisory.html> for Russia with the Level 3 warning in  January 2018. This advisory has led to a lot of confusion and reassessment of Russian study/internship abroad programs at US universities and colleges.  The situation is most unfortunate since we need more people-to-people exchanges at tense political times like this.

We at ASEEES are trying to assess the impact of the travel advisory on the US study/internship programs to Russia.  If your institution has such a program, please complete, or have the program coordinator complete, this short survey:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TQSS5GL   If you have more than one program to Russia, please enter one program per response.

Please do note that while the federally-funded Gilman Undergraduate Scholarship for study abroad is by mandate not allowed to send students to areas with travel warnings of Level 3 or 4, this mandate does not apply to all federally funded programs.  We have been keeping a close eye on the relevant programs and expect most of them to move forward as planned.

We thank you for your assistance with the survey.

Regards,

Lynda Park
Executive Director
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
203C Bellefield Hall | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA
+1 (412) 648-9911 (main), +1 (412) 648-9815 (fax)
www.aseees.org<http://www.aseees.org/>



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