Vol 14, No 1 (2017)

The concept “cultures” lost a clear boundary today: only in the sphere of studying and teaching foreign languages it is possible to speak about the standard of speech - verbal and nonverbal aspect; to culture of behavior, culture of clothes, etc.; and, ethnic and social and defined norms adapt to various to situational contexts. For this reason and because of inter-object approach [1. P. 2] to studying of cross-cultural communication - borders of “cross-cultural communication” become more and more indistinct. It can take place between representatives of various cultures on one geographical space (i.e. in one polycultural society) and terms of uniform single-crop community, but consisting of representatives of various floors, generations, professions or social groups. From here need of more detailed approach to expansion of cross-cultural communication results including at learning of foreign languages; and to orientation of the post-integration work (directed on voluntary deep integration with self-identification preservation) - by use of online tandems with carriers of target languages and ethnocultures as native.

The article describes a new course in teaching Russian as a Foreign Language - a course of intensive communicative adaptation, which responds to needs people who study Russian language, living and working in Russia. The paper describes the main characteristics of the course, represents a case for students, that includes traditional themes of studying at the basic level of Russian. It is also describes the system of exercises training the intercultural competence. Foreigners from more than 15 countries, living in Russia and working in international companies and diplomatic missions took part in the survey and have tested the course exercises.

This article is attempt of panoramic look on modern Altai literary criticism. The author gives an assessment of the current state of Altai science on the material of the most important scientific works published by researchers in the latest time. Special attention is paid to the thematic analysis of scientific works.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the two Slovak poetry collections were published in Russian language (“Golosa stoletiy”, 2002 and “Iz veka v vek”, 2006, 2015). The article gives not only the information оn the mentioned two books, but much attention is given to the way of translation of Slovak authors (M. Valek, L. Feldek, S. Strazhay) by Russian translators (B. Okudzhava, O. Malevich,Mashkova, N. Shvedova). It is shown that the Russian translators retain their own perception, feeling and understanding of Slovak poetry. Certain inadequate transformations in the translation are noticeably just in the stylistic and semantic levels, as well as in the not a full understanding of some specific Slovak historic-cultural reality by translators.