Performance-based reforms have been introduced widely in the Russian public sector during the 2000s, but reform efforts have been promoted mainly through formal orders and commands, rather than in-depth understanding (Evstatchic & Menshikova, 2014). The general result of permanent reforms, the...

Our report shows that the Russian theory of personnel management as a "middle-level" theory is weakly correlated with general theories, it clearly does not appeal to any of the theoretical and methodological grounds. In this respect, the modern Russian approach avoids the relationship with...

Philosophical and cultural question whether Russia's elite is part of the Western world, Western culture or not was the object of analysis of Russian intelligentsia, that is well-known representatives of Russian philosophy P. Chaadaev, Khomyakov, K., Solovyov, N. Berdyaev, I. Ilyin, N. Lossky...

The report is devoted to economic rationale for the introduction of English in the teaching of business subjects in the courses "Advertising" and "PR". Research questions are the following: how many vacancies with knowledge of English are presented in two largest labor markets - in Moscow and...

Issues of politeness and directness are often crucial in communication. The work shows a contradictory picture of politeness, reaction on in-directness and rudeness in Russian language, which can lead to misunderstandings and break in communication. Russian culture and mentality have a serious...

The neo-liberal class of Russia is not numerous (10-15%). However, it is growing at the expense of students and graduates. And of course, we have to think about their ability to work in international markets. For example, only the first half of 2015 several serious delegations from Asian...

The article deals with the problem of identity of modern elites in Russian today in the conditions of market economy, postmodernism ideology and developing post-Christian civilization. According to Markov the main problem of modern political and economic elites in this situation is moral...

The paper deals with the problem of political communication in computer game: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks, 2011). Skyrim model of political communication can be considered as prototype of modern postmodern model of organization of political life.We considered interrelations...

The scope of research is to analyze some gender aspects of quality of English language learning in PhD programme in Russia. Participants of investigation are 100 non-native speakers of English who are PhD-students of the Saint-Petersburg universities. They are 50 females and 50 males. The age of...

During the current conflict between Russia and the West, there are many concerns associated with the fate of the Russian language and spread of the English language. Previous research has shown a serious concern about the use of English language in the education system in Russia. Therefore, it...