This is my background and introduction and I invite you to
post your own introduction.
I started Russophile.com because I lived and taught university in Rostov-on-Don, Russia for over two years. While living in Russia, I met
a lovely Russian lady whom I later married. Although she speaks fantastic English, we usually speak Russian together so that
our daughter can learn Russian, which is important to both of us. Our daughter has Russian citizenship despite currently living in the United States and has already been to Russia twice by the age of two. We often spend our time with Russians and Ukrainians and I like to stay up on Russian politics, culture, and events. I am currently working on several Russia related projects outside this web site such as setting up teleconferencing link between a local city in the US and a city in Russia so that the city can expand ties and to encourage international and language education.
I love to regularly go back to Russia. I would hope to live there again for another extended period. My goal is to speak Russian so well that I can pass for a Russian. Currently, I can pass at the market or in a cab, but not in detailed conversation.
Although the Soviet Union has been dissolved for several years now, this quote by Margaret Wettlin in her book
Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union sums up my experience better than I can...
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I had left Russia, maybe for good. But I had left some of myself behind. I had eaten Russian bread. I had experienced Russian hospitality. I had loved and been loved in Russia...And had taken some of Russia with me--in my heart. Some of the passion, some of the suffering, some of the sweeping scope of that broad country and that generous people, even some of its vitality and creativity, had gotten into me and become a part of me. Russia was in my life and I wouldn't of course ever be the same again. Nor did I want to be. I was glad that this was the way things were.
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My website was static and rather non-interactive for several years, but I decided to revive it recently as a forum to encourage discussion on and understanding of Russia. I invite you
to register and share you thoughts and experiences.
About Russophile.com: My Own Introduction 
Re: About Russophile.com: My Own Introduction 
They certainly take enough time in one's native language. And if you ever reach a point where reading a novel in Russian takes you even just a little more time to read in Russian than English, please let me know the secret of your success.
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