Training tests of the III certification level are part of the official set of materials of the Russian system of testing citizens of foreign countries in the Russian language. The book includes two versions of tests at this level. When developing options, the experience gained over several years of testing foreigners was taken into account. The proposed materials have been tested at the Faculty...

The dictionary includes 868 phraseological homonyms of different types. Each dictionary entry contains an interpretation of a phraseological unit, a type of categorical meaning, grammatical, stylistic characteristics, etc. Quotes from literary texts, the press, and colloquial speech are used as illustrations. There are no analogues to this dictionary in modern lexicography

In this groundbreaking memoir, Starobinets chronicles the devastating loss of her unborn son to a fatal birth defect. After her son’s death, Starobinets suffers from nightmares and panic attacks; the memoir describes her struggle to find sympathy, community, and psychological support for herself and her family. A finalist for the 2018 National Bestseller Prize, Look at Him ignited a firestorm...

In the finale of the four-book Beastly Crimes series, Chief Badger faces his most bizarre case yet, in which someone is plucking and burning the feathers of birds in the Far Woods. To make things even worse, the top suspect is his former assistant, young Badgercat. Chief Badger knows that Badgercat can't possibly be the Plucker, so who plucked Lady Cuckoo and attacked the owl twins, Chuck...

Flush with success from having solved the case of the murdered Rabbit, crotchety detective Chief Badger and his impetuous young assistant, Badgercat, anticipate the return of peace and quiet to their community. But trouble recurs with a visit from Huntington Farm's bloodthirsty security team, who bring accusations of theft and harsh demands for justice. Guard dog Muxtar and hunting hound Polkan...

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

Several well-known cases from the practice of Sherlock Holmes, as presented by his faithful friend and companion Dr. Watson, are adapted in this edition (without simplifying the original text) according to the method of Ilya Frank: they are provided with a literal translation into Russian and the necessary lexical and grammatical commentary. The uniqueness of the method lies in the fact that...

One of the most famous works of Jack London - the story of a dog who became the leader of a wolf pack, overcoming the cruelty of people, the fury of rivals and the severity of northern nature on his way - adapted in this publication according to the method of Ilya Frank: provided with a literal translation into Russian and the necessary vocabulary -grammar commentary (without simplifying the...

The cult novel by George Orwell, one of the main anti-utopias of the 20th century. A creepy and frightening text that has not lost its relevance even 70 years later. For the first time, 1984 is published in Russian in a new, complete, uncensored and cuts, translation by Daria Tselovalnikova.