Host Families

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I am a student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, studying Russian. Next year, I must study for the year in Russia, and I am going to РГГУ in Moscow. They used to offer homestays as an option for their foreign students, but as the visa requirements have recently become stricter regarding changing addresses of residence, they seem to have become very reluctant to offer help in terms of homestays. I still think that living with a family would vastly improve my Russian, as opposed to staying with a bunch of Engish-speaking international students in halls...

Does anyone know of either any formal host-family agencies, or simply any people doing such things informally?

Спасибо