The paper deals with the problem of the Russian language functioning in the post-Soviet area as a mother tongue for russophones - bilingual and polylingual ones, in particular. It reviews the characteristics of their linguistic personality diagnosing preservation of its dominant original identification characteristics under the influence of foreign linguocultural environment and the Russian component decreasing. The author considers such linguistic markers as the increasing number of agnonyms, xenonyms and national-cultural gaps to be the symptoms of marginalization of the Russian linguistic personality that should be considered as a signal to develop appropriate linguodidactic solutions as applied to the formation of the Russian linguistic personality in the near abroad.

This article deals with the problem of implementation the methodical system of linguistic and cultural adaptation in the practice of teaching Russian language to foreign students in Russian universities. The author uncovers the role of ethnically oriented components of methodical system of linguistic and cultural adaptation and examines the possibility of integration ethnically oriented approach with the process of linguistic and cultural adaptation in teaching Russian as a foreign language (on the example of Arab students).

The article studies means of translating Russian realities in poetic texts into Mongolian.

The present paper discusses the precedent phenomenon as a rhetorical device permitting to effectuate Twitter-communication strategy and tactics.

The article describes Russian and Vietnamese compliments about appearance from the aspect of their national and gender specifics.

The article characterizes phraseological units with the meaning of request and agreement or disagreement of it.

The article is devoted to the problems of foreign language training in a technical higher institution arousing in the process of realization of FSES 3-rd generation. The main trends of standards realization in the light of competence approach have been determined in the article. The experience of the Program realization is described; some disadvantages are shown and the ways of training process improvement are suggested. Credit-modular system of training students in higher education is positively characterized in the article. The main trends, mechanisms and procedures of standards realization in the light of competence approach have been determined in the article.

The communicative and cultural paradigm of teaching foreign students is characterized in the article, features of structure and material presentation in an educational complex for foreign students are described.

The article deals with an overview of peculiarities characteristic of English lessons at a non-linguistic university which are based on the use of a full-length feature film. In the article there analyzed the theoretical ground for selecting video material, particular experience related to planning and organizing hand-out materials as well as the most efficient exercises and activities associated with the use of feature films in classrooms.

This article studies the role of F.I. Buslaev in developing A.A. Shakhmatov’s ideas as a scholar at the beginning of his creative work as well as the scholastic view on the nature of teaching the Russian language in colleges.