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      <p>The Russian FAST course first appeared at FSI more than 15 years ago, and it has been
        growing and changing ever since. The current edition owes its existence to many individuals,
        all of whom we would like to thank. While time and space do not permit us to thank them all
        individually, we would like to bring special attention to the efforts of the following:</p>
      <p>Without the computer skills and language teaching expertise of Language and Culture
        Instructor Garegin Petrosian, this book would not exist today. Thanks are also owed to Linda
        Coble and the staff in OMIS who responded, generously and promptly, to every request for
        software, as well as hardware.</p>
      <p>Tatiana Hassan, Natasha Lord, Olga Shishkevish and many other Language and Culture
        instructors in the Russian Section make up the team which brought the first, and then later
        versions of the FAST course to our students. We are grateful to them all for their hard work
        and dedication. Special thanks are due Tatiana Hassan who has been the driving force behind
        the current FAST course and this latest version of the book.</p>
      <p>Without the efforts of Lawrence Williams and David Coy in Multi-Media Operations we could
        not have produced the tapes which accompany this book. Thanks also go to those instructors
        in the Russian Section who lent their voices.</p>
      <p>Thanks are also owed to all the Language and Culture Instructors in the Russian Section who
        gave so freely of their time to proofread, correct and suggest improvements to this
        book.</p>
      <p>Our work on the FAST course has always enjoyed the support of our administration. We owe a
        special debt of gratitude to Dr. James Snow, Chair of NEE, Dr. David Argoff and Gary
        Crawford, Associate Deans of the School of Language Studies at FSI.</p>
      <p>Finally, and most importantly, we are grateful to our students, who have so patiently
        helped us test these materials and who have so generously shared their comments. We have
        benefited greatly by their experiences, and we hope that our future students will do so as
        well.</p>
      <p>Maureen Riley</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Language Training Supervisor</p>
      <p>Russian Language Section</p>
      <p>September, 1995</p>
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            <td align="left" valign="top"><p>This course was formatted by Eric Streit
                (eric@yojik.eu) using the docbook format from the pdf scanned documents found
                on:</p><p>http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php .</p><p>The Russian part was
                checked by Gulnara Streit (my wife). You can find the pdf, epub versions on
                http://www.yojik.eu/ . (whole book or separate lessons)</p><p>Version: 25 April 2011
                revision December 2020</p></td>
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