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My educational background includes a five-year specialist degree in English and Linguistics from Buryat State University in Russia and an MA in Diplomacy and International Affairs from ADA University in Azerbaijan. I started my teaching career in 2008 in Eastern Siberia, where I worked as a university English teacher. I spent a year as a Fulbright Russian teaching assistant at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. During my graduate studies I spent two summers working as a Russian interpreter for an environmental non-profit in the United States, Russia and Mongolia. After obtaining my master’s, I continued my teaching career at ADA University. In addition to my full-time job, I keep myself busy with short-term projects such as teaching Russian at summer intensives. My academic interests include second language acquisition, intercultural communication, and academic writing.