By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY
For decades, American studies in Russia and Russian studies in the United States, were, at the heart of it, enemy studies.
Now, two decades into the post-Soviet era and two years after President Barack Obama promised to “reset” U.S. relations with Russia, these studies have broadened to include the environment, émigrés, Alaska and native cultures.
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