Russian as an instrument of successful communication

Nowadays the Russian language is influenced by different trends of Internet communication, mass media and other languages. It is impossible to define these processes as positive. And it is an important factor causing today the need of the appeal to the language material and its study.

This is the course of studying of influence of Internet communication, mass media and other languages on Russian. The course may be useful for everyone who is not indifferent to problems of the Russian language and personal and public speech culture, who wants to improve the skills of oral and written communication

Target Audience

  • General interest
  • For pupils as auxiliary material by preparation for Unified State Examination in Russian
  • For foreign students – as an additional tool of language adaptation

Earn a Course Certificate

When you successfully complete your course, you’ll receive an electronic Course Certificate issued by the University and Coursera.

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Terms and Conditions

The course is free. To access full course content, you’ll need to register on the platform Coursera and to enroll into the course. The course is always open, and you’ll be able to start as soon as you enroll.


The best MOOC on Humanities in the first in the world competition of MOOC EdCrunch Award 2015

Nina Agapova
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology