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Rachel Rodriguez, at the time she wrote for this site, was a third-year student at the University of South Carolina, double majoring in Russian and Criminal Justice. She was also currently pursuing part of her Masters Degree in Criminal Justice. Rachel aspired to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, applying her translation skills for English, Spanish, and Russian. She will soon be studying other countries’ criminal justice systems in London with UofSC. In her free time, she loves to travel and explore the outdoors.
Many traveler’s handbooks, in the 1990s and even into the 2000s, warned foreigners to be wary of ATMs in Russia. A lot has changed since…