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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I majored in Russian at Princeton in the mid-90s, at the nadir of Russian influence. We had four people in my class in the department, which had eight tenured professors. I had never taken Russian before I went to Princeton, and I did nothing with it after school. Became a sports journalist and then a lawyer. [/quote]

Someone does not know what 'nadir' means.[/quote]
It seems more the case that you would benefit from studying the history of this period, particularly that of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.[/quote]

The collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of Russian emigrants indeed created a deep need for Russian speakers.  How could you possibly not know this?[/quote]

NP.  The Russian/Ukrainian emigre and expat community is really sufficient to supply all needs that are not intelligence/security related.  It's similar to Chinese in that respect.  If you just want to do business you can always find a bilingual local or hyphenated-American.  It's the rare person who doesn't have a family background who excels in difficult foreign languages.

[b]And these days if you would be connected to intelligence, it would even further reduce your chances of safely visiting, working, making friends with locals, etc.[/b]

I believe that people should study what they are interested in, but I agree this is not a field where you can expect a free-flowing job market and easy job finding. That makes it more of a passion major.[/quote]

You know that people working within the IC on Russian-related projects do most of their work here in the U.S., right?  [/quote]

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