Baltic International Academy
Encyclopedia
The Baltic International Academy (up to 2006 it was called Baltic Russian Institute) is the largest non-government
higher education
establishment in the Baltic States
and Eastern Europe
an countries. It was established in 1992 and presently has 7,500 students, including 450 foreign students from 15 countries worldwide.
Russian Language School of Baltic International Academy is extremely dishonest. They cheat people out of their money. If you pay for individual classes they will change them to group classes and not refund your money. They also will not give you all the classes you pay for. The school is in a very bad location. Latvia is not a good place to study Russian. It is a Latvian speaking country and all the signs are in Latvian. Many people do not want to speak Russian and prefer to speak in English. Their housing is overpriced. They charge foreigners 30 euros per night and only charge Latvians 100 euros/month.
Non-governmental organization
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higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
establishment in the Baltic States
Baltic states
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
and Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
an countries. It was established in 1992 and presently has 7,500 students, including 450 foreign students from 15 countries worldwide.
Russian Language School of Baltic International Academy is extremely dishonest. They cheat people out of their money. If you pay for individual classes they will change them to group classes and not refund your money. They also will not give you all the classes you pay for. The school is in a very bad location. Latvia is not a good place to study Russian. It is a Latvian speaking country and all the signs are in Latvian. Many people do not want to speak Russian and prefer to speak in English. Their housing is overpriced. They charge foreigners 30 euros per night and only charge Latvians 100 euros/month.