The manual is intended for bilingual students who speak Russian in a family, but have not studied in a Russian-language school or have studied in such a school for only a short time. It can be used for students studying Russian as a foreign language at an advanced stage (above B1).

At the helm of the Russian government : Essay on the formation of government in the 14th-15th cent. The authors study the formation of the Russian state at the end of 15th-beginning 16th centuries as a process of creating administrative bodies: the offices of the Moscow Dukes and later of the Russian sovereign. The first Russian administrative officials were boyars, voivodes, and d`iaks...

About That Which Did Not Happen, an annotated Russian reader, is intended for low-intermediate and intermediate level students of Russian (B1-B2, TRKI I-II). The story is a dynamic narrative by the well-known author Victoria Tokareva about one doctor's lifelong dream to own a tiger. Tokareva masterfully portrays how Dima's dream dictates his inner world and dealings with the people around him....

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter—not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined with high-tech...

‘The purpose of this manual is to achieve communicative competence of the levels of TRKI-2 - TRKI-3. The manual is structured according to the thematic principle and consists of 5 lessons, which are divided into blocks. Each block includes conditional speech and speech tasks aimed at developing the perception and understanding of authentic texts within the framework of the topics studied at...

Russian grammar exercises for intermediate level. The manual includes exercises for grammar aspects that usually cause confusion and difficulties: expression of time, reason, purpose, and word order in simple and complex sentences.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was...