I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished. The writer Paul Tough and his son Max.Credit...Gueorgui Pinkhassov for The ...

"The Russian language is respected here, and there is a desire for it to be taught at different levels: from elementary school to higher educational institutions," Alexey Saltykov noted NAIROBI, ...