The University of Wisconsin–Madison, home to one of the largest and strongest Russian programs in the nation, has received a four-year grant of $1.3 million from the National Security Education Program in the U.S. Department of Defense to support the UW-Madison Russian Flagship Program through 2024. This award recognizes the Russian Flagship’s decade-long record of providing an exceptional academic program for undergraduate students of any major to achieve professional-level proficiency in Russian, a language that is designated by the Department of Defense as critical to U.S. national security and economic competitiveness.
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