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This tutorial is devoted to the theoretical and practical questions, related to the culture of everyday life of France and countries of Francophonie. It consists of 5 sections:

1. Culture of everyday life as a scientific problem; 
2. Culture of France and culture of everyday life; 
3. Francophonie and regions of France: cultures of everyday life; 
4. France and Russia: literary and historical aspects of everyday life; 
5. Everyday culture in the practice of teaching of the French language.

Intended for students, post-graduates and everyone interested in the culture of France and Francophonie.

The monograph is devoted to the study of francophonie — a unique multifaceted phenomenon that has linguistic and cultural components. It aims to show the ways of studying francophonie and to clarify the dynamics of its development in the context of current theoretical problems. It also aspires to identify the features of francophonie research as a scientific direction and a promising academic discipline.

The monograph is a multidisciplinary research and is written for a wide range of readers — students, master degree students, and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers and everyone who is interested in the French language, the cultures of France and French-speaking countries.

Keywords: Francophonie, International Organization of Francophonie, francophonie studies, France, francophone countries, French language, culture, spatial variation, area.

Le recueil est consacre aux contacts et infl uences qui caracterisent le monde francophone au sein de la culture mondiale. Il comprend 5 parties: Сarrefours des cultures: nord, sud, est, ouest. Carrefours de l'histoire: epoque de 1812. France: aspects de la culture. Francophonie: langue et cultures. France et Russie. Le recueil est destine aux etudiants, aux ecoliers et a tous ceux qui s'interessent a la culture de la France et de la Russie.

The monograph is devoted to the study of the language, society and culture of France in the context of the Francophonie. The author considers the theoretical and practical aspects of the unity/variance of language and culture, the development of national and cultural identity, the anthropology of space, everyday culture and its reflection in the language, linguistic and cultural politics as well as some terminological issues.

The book has an interdisciplinary nature and is intended for a wide range of readers: philologists, historians, specialists in area studies, culturologists, sociologists and representatives of other disciplines, researchers and lecturers, doctoral students, under- and post-graduate students, and everyone studying French and interested in the culture of France and Francophonie.

The manual is devoted to the description of a variety of techniques and successful experience in organizing nature research with children in kindergartens, summer camps, in a specialized environmental laboratory, at educational holidays and science festivals. A special section is devoted to family activities in which both children and their parents are involved in research activities.

For a wide range of readers: teachers, volunteers working with children, parents.

The book is devoted to the description of species, hybrids and varieties of representatives of the genus Chubushnik (Philadelphus L.), which have been grown and observed for several decades in the collection of the open ground of the REC — Botanical Garden of Peter I of the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. A detailed description of cultivated varieties and natural species is given, indicating their origin, biological properties, data on reproduction, agricultural technology and decorative use are given. Special attention is paid to the history of breeding work and achievements of domestic scientists. Based on long-term observations, data on the hardiness and phenology of plants of this genus in the climate of the Middle zone of European Russia are presented. 

The publication will be useful for specialists in the field of botany and landscape design, students and a wide range of amateur gardeners.

This book is written as a guidance for literature teachers and senior high school pupils of gymnasiums and lyceums majoring in humanities to help them preparing for compositions on masterpieces of the Russian literature. These are namely Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin; Mikhail Lermontov’s poem Death of the Poet and his novel A Hero of Our Time; Ivan Turgenev’s short novel Asya and his novel Fathers and Sons', Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov, What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky; Poor Folk and main novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem Poet and Citizen and finally the Russian novel itself in its national and authentic form, and certain novels of such contemporary heritors of the literary classic of the XIX century as Vasily Belov and Alexander Potemkin.

The book is intended for the teachers of secondary schools, gymnasiums and lyceums, school leavers, students and lecturers at the Departments of Philology as well as everyone who admires Russian literary classic and values it.

The states of the Balkans and the Black Sea region minted different coins and had different traditions in maintaining the currency system. The comparative study of these coins was necessary to demonstrate that changes affecting the currencies were determined by the genesis of the worldwide economic system and have appeared because the medieval financial approaches were universal. One thing was common for those dissimilar currencies: specie existed for the use of the authorities and of the subjects concurrently. Published and unpublished documents together with quantitative data obtained during the numismatic analysis allowed to find and to describe dates and circumstances of dozens reforms in the Byzantine and Tartar states, to reconstruct the ideology of medieval financiers. The first and the second gave us also names of the coins, their parameters, values, rates and cross-rates, different characteristics of the monetary fund as a whole. They were calculated with the use of original methods developed for the numismatic study based on the probability theory and reflecting the statistical nature of the numismatic material. The results accumulated in this book are not merely the description of the evolution of the financial systems in the region, they are the tool necessary for the research of the economic history of the Levant in the Middle Ages.

The collective monograph, written by well-known Russian linguists, presents a broad picture of the functioning of the language of the media, comprehensively analyzes the influence of politics on the language of the media. This problem is central to the language of the media, since politics is the main content in the activities of the media, and is considered in semiotic, functional-stylistic, ethical and rhetorical aspects. The language of print and electronic media (newspapers, magazines, television, radio) is studied in detail. The language of foreign media is also considered in a comparative aspect. The monograph shows the current state of the media language and its influence on the development of the literary language.

The monograph is of interest to students, postgraduates and teachers of journalism and philology faculties, as well as to a wide range of readers, for those who care about the purity and expressiveness of Russian speech.