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Students Brenda Tinoco-Bravo and Dante Matero stand at either side of Stephen Lesser, the beneficiary for the UCLA Russian Flagship Stephen Lesser Award. The scholarship was awarded Saturday for outstanding personal reflection essays written during the department&#039;s summer Kazakhstan study abroad program. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)

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A clerk at the Green Bazaar in Almaty, Kazakhstan asked Brenda Tinoco-Bravo what the weather was like in Los Angeles. Tinoco-Bravo quickly replied “80 degrees” in her intermediate Russian and watched the clerk’s eyebrows go up.

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Students study abroad in Kazakhstan, experience new culture, personal growth

By Marina Romanchuk-Kapralau

Feb. 8, 2016 6:37 a.m.