Hi Robert,
Actually it's strange that you have such attitude to Russia with that propaganda against it out there...
Why you want to move here? Russia is not so a bad place but actually in the USA conditions are better.
As I see that you want to get degree in the Russian language I think it would not be useful here as far as unlikely you would teach Russian here. In point of view of work I think it'd better to get degree in the English language. Russian-speaking teachers of English with not good knowing of it get fee quite a lot.