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Conference of International Association of Russian Language and Literature Teachers (CIARLLT) has started today June 15th in the

On 1 February, the St. Petersburg State University will start accepting foreign citizens.  This year, students from other countries contributed more than 300 budget slots. The quotas for foreign students at universities

As the 300th anniversary of the great Russian scholar Mikhail Lomonosov approaches, the Russkiy Mir Foundation and Russian Language Courses publishing house have prepared a jubilee edition of the comprehensive teaching aid “Mikhail Lomonosov” from the

The Wonder Baby series of interactive educational video books has gained world fame. Since 2008 until now 9,000 sets of Reading Lessons and Studying as it were in a Fairy-Tale have been released in Russian, Chinese, French and Uzbek.

The comprehensive phonetic and lexicon reference and training program Russian without an Accent is now available in a version specially

The software represents a Russian-English vocabulary simulator with comments on 30,000 word entries and sound recording of each Russian word. It will be useful for people learning two foreign languages – English and Russian.

The new installation package of a remote self-help tutor of Russian for foreigners “Golden Russian” can now be downloaded. Now you don’t need an Internet connection to work with this course. The installation package includes the English, French,

A Twitter microblog called Learn Russian w/Twit is up and running. The various Russian words, phrases and sayings are “twitted” on a regular basis

Voronezh State University, which has a rich tradition of teaching the Russian language to foreigners, has put online several basic grammar programs which can be found here.

Soyuzmultfilm, the rights holder to Soviet-era cartoons and animated films, has not created a YouTube channel where you can view your old favorites from childhood – http://www.youtube.com/user/Soyuzmult. 

We recently came across the Russian language-learning website www.lerussefacile.com. This francophone site has podcasts with dialogues on 20

The director of the Russian Center of Russian Language and Culture at Mons University (Centre de langue et de culture russes, Belgium) Beno

The publishing house Russian Language Courses and the Russkiy Mir Foundation has issued an educational DVD set titled First in Space, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight. The educational set is appropriate for all Russian language learners

It is difficult to overstate the significance of the electronic version of the Koran in Russian, which was financed through a grant of the Russkiy Mir Foundation. After all, Russia has a multimillion large population of Muslims, many of whom do not have the ability to

Specialists from the bilingual Lev Tolstoy school in Berlin (Lew-Tolstoi-Grundschule) and the Institute of Slavic Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Institut f

A collection of exercises and games on the theme of Russian fairytales titled “On the Trails of Russian Fairytales” has

The new project Russian On-Line, intended for foreigners who are beginning to study the Russian language, was developed by Professor S.V. Fadeev based on his experience teaching the language in countries throughout the world. The Internet portal was developed with the