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The article analyzes the features of teaching Indian students Russian as a foreign language, taking into account the linguistic, sociocultural characteristics of these students. The role of ethnomethodics in teaching Russian as a foreign language is considered.The influence of linguistic and extralinguistic factors on the education of students from India in Russian higher education institutions is studied.

Key words: Russian as a foreign language, foreign students, ethnomethodics, nationally oriented methodology, Indian students, language interference.

The purpose of this article is to consider the structure of the course “Social and Political Texts in English” addressed to the students of the International Relations Department, School of History, Ivanovo State University. The peculiarities of teaching this subject, the target audience of which are foreign students, are discussed. The most effective methods of teaching such students are given. The teaching process is based on cross-cultural communication with special emphasis on ethnic and cultural stereotypes.

The need to provide a new level of professional education for graduates of Russian universities is accompanied by increased requirements for the quality of mass foreign language training for non-linguistic students. The purpose of the article is to analyze the weaknesses and strengths of modern language training, to consider possible options for modernizing the system of foreign language education in non-linguistic universities. The data of experimental training of students of Petrozavodsk State University in a unified foreign-language educational environment are presented.

The aim of this work is to study Soviet and American film policy at the initial stage of the «Cold War». The source base consists of original, first introduced into academic circulation or little-known archival data — paperwork, organizational and administrative documentation, as well as audiovisual materials, media texts — motion pictures. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was composed of comparative-historical, historical-genetic and historical-typological methods, the principles of historicism, scientific objectivity.

The article deals with a little-studied aspect of the relationship between Medieval and Renaissanceworldviews, which coexisted in the XIV‑XVI centuries in the Christian West. Medieval consciousness was based on the idea of the "senility of the world" and its near death, the moral, intellectual and physical degradation of mankind. Such idea was contrary to anthropology and historical optimism of humanists.

On the materials of official documents ("Personal file" of a student of the Vladimir state pedagogical Institute V.V. Erofeev — a future famous writer), behavioural strategies of the University intelligentsia of the "thaw" period are studied. The author proves that this thematic documentary complex is a multi- layered text of culture that arose at the intersection of various ideological and discursive strategies of historical, cultural and socio-political contexts.

The article comprehends the modern methodology of studying the theatrical process, based on the theoretical concepts of "theatrical text", "theatrical discourse", theatrical communication, etc. The specific material shows the effectiveness of using current methodological tools for analyzing the historical theatrical process.

Key words: culture text, theatrical text, theatre discourse, aesthetic reception, history on the stage, the audience.

The article discusses some aspects of the Royal Household Purveyors Institute origin and development, its influence on the quality assurance system in the Russian Empire and the country's economy development. The paper focuses on the Russian Empire state emblem use on industrial enterprises labels and trademarks. It is considered to be one of the products quality control ways. The Russian Empire state emblem use made great contribution to the national economy development. It helped to endorse the high level of Russian industrial enterprises manufacturing process management.

In the article, the author defines the game as a semiotic system. The components of the game are considered, the concept of “culture”, “cultural area” is comprehended and the specific features of the game of cultures are highlighted. According to the author, the results of the study of the interaction of cultures and cultural zones (areas) are the suggestion to use the mechanism of a game as a form of ordering of being.

Key words: game, culture, game of cultures, collective games, system, levels of the game system, stage, actor, roles.

The article deals with the causes of the crisis situation that arose in social and humanities knowledge in the last quarter of the XXth century. The author substantiates the point that the essence of the crisis is the absolutization of the ideas of irrationality, subjectivity and relativity of knowledge, which are characteristic of non-classical science. This ideal is in contradiction with the classical ideal of scientific knowledge.