The article presents a commentary to the published translated manuscript excerpt from Ch. de Villiers’ book “Kant’s philosophy or basic principles of transcendental philosophy” (1801) which was at G.R. Derzhavin’s disposal. In the article suppositions about the authorship of the translation are suggested and a substantial characteristic of the document is given. The author formulates arguments revealing the character of Derzhavin’s creative perception of Kant’s ethics basic ideas, grasped due to the fact that they were accessibly presented in Ch. de Villiers’ work and acquired an original interpretation in a set of his poetic writings in 1810-s. The original text of the translated excerpt is provided as a supplement to specify the circle of Derzhavin’s philosophical interests in the late period of his creative carrier.

The important element in G. Torrente Bellester’s novel “The Saga / Fugue of J.B.” is the image of Galicia, which is comprised of scenery descriptions, phrases in Galician introduced in the Spanish text, use of common stereotypes about the Galicians, references to Galician myths and historic events. The most fascinating characters have their prototypes among real historical figures who contributed considerably to the development of Galicia, shaping of the sense of national identity in people’s minds and forming a now-traditional image of this autonomous region in Spain. The analysis of these aspects in the novel gives an insight into the author’s literary method: his ironic reinterpretation of reality and its recreation in a new form, one of intellectual and fantastic nature.

Miloš S. Milojević largely contributed to the preparation of the Serbian people in the occupied regions (Old Serbia) for the military and cultural-historical enterprise aimed at the liberation from the Ottoman Empire. His work can be seen in the political, cultural and military field. He restrained Bulgarian nationalist propaganda; with his itinerary work he described the cultural assets of Old Serbia so that the political activity of the Principality of Serbia should have facts for a successful enterprise. He was particularly successful as a direct organizer of volunteers and participant in the war. He was more active as a propagandist than as a historian.

The Seminar of Slovene Language, Literature and Culture (1965) is the oldest international academic gathering organised by Slovene Studies specialists in Ljubljana, intended for foreign Slovene Studies specialists and other scholars who deal with Slovene, students of Slovene at foreign universities and men of cultural from neighbouring border areas. The aim of the event is to present the latest developments with regard to Slovene language, literature and culture, as well as to deepen participants’ knowledge of the language and of literary and cultural-historical studies. Over 52 years there have been 5887 participants, including at least 192 from Russia. But since some people attend more than once, we are actually talking about 127 Russian participants, of whom 87 have attended once and 40 more than once, including two who have been present six times (Anna Bodrova and Olga Plotnikova). Over more than three decades the Obdobja Symposium (1979), which took over the scholarly part of Slovene Studies debate from the seminar and which has become the central international academic gathering in Slovene Studies, has attracted, in addition to local and foreign linguists and literary theorists, other humanities scholars who add a new scope to the Slovene Studies and Slavic Studies viewpoints, enriching the field with interdisciplinarity. The 35 published proceedings of the symposium contain 1925 papers, including 54 contributed by 24 various Russian scholars; the most frequent Russian contributors are Nadežda Starikova (11 papers) and Julija A. Sozina (7).

The article continues a series of papers on communicative semantics of kinesic means of the Russian language. Using the method of semantic communicative analysis the author examines ‘a handshake’ as a kinesic construction and the kineme “offering a hand” as its basic element. She analyzes the most frequent deployments of invariant semantic parameter of this kineme and mentions the issues of semantics of a “broken” (failed) handshake, unusual and abnormal ways of performing the gesture, the problem of aesthetic functions of the kineme “offering a hand” and the construction of a handshake in cinema, etc.

The paper deals with computing key words by comparing and processing data retrieved from two corpora: reference corpus and a specifically designed corpus or a text. The main aim of the research revolves around the idea of equipping linguists, teachers and students with the practical skills to analyze the language they teach statistically. Thus, the research is based upon statistical procedures provided by standard corpus software. We set out to find out whether the key words computed automatically, with the help of software WordSmith Tools 6.0, could provide a reliable basis for selecting the most important lexical units for learners of English. The learners in question were undergraduate students of Area Studies (the UK). In our experiment we compared three lists of words: chosen by two ESP teachers and the one computed automatically. The article elaborates on the procedure and the relevance of the three word lists within second language acquisition context. In conclusion, it is stated that corpus tools could be of significant help for ESP professionals.

The article discusses types of diplomas-papers prepared by distant students learning the programme “Theory and Methods of Training Russian as a Foreign Language”. The conclusions were made on the basis of the analysis of diplomas-papers of students from 2001 to 2015.

The article deals with the different forms of author interaction “Letters of a Russian Traveler” with the various bookish sources. For example the author shows how the news about the fate of the poet Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist from the fragment of “History of the Seven Years War” written by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz was used by N.M. Karamzin.

The author discusses the functions and the role of the dialogue in Pushkin’s prose, analysing Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades”. This long-short story is regarded in terms of its genre specifics. The elements of such genres as a fairy tale and an anecdote are the means of creating of the characters, and the dialogue plays the main role in the disclosure of characters, and the special artistic means – the lack of dialogue in a situation of “contacts” of characters.

The article analyses 48 school textbooks in Russian literature, created in 1860–1900 to highlight main trends of presenting Lermontov’s prose, poetry and drama. The article is supplied by a complete list of Lermontov’s works which were studied at schools.

The paper briefly describes websites that could be useful for professional dialectologists and for linguists who are interested in Russian dialectology. The Dialectal texts corpus within the Russian National Corpus is in the focus. The main principles of marking up the dialectal texts are presented as well as the 2016 release of the corpus.

The article deals with an unpublished comedy of M.N. Muraviev “Vyigrannaia tiazhba” [“The Case been Won”]. This text was found in the writer’s archive in the State Historical Museum’s Written Sources Department (DWS) and hasn’t been studied yet. Probably Muraviev wrote it in the 1772th; it’s one of the earliest his literature works. In this text he used common themes of the 18^th century Russian journalism and drama.

The article deals with the “Opisanie prazdnestva, byvshego po sluchayu vzyatiya Izmaila <...> 1791 goda aprelya 28 dnya” [The Description of the Fete, which was on the Occasion of the Capture of Ishmael <...> in 1791 April 28]. In this text, written to order, Derzhavin went beyond the ordinary descriptions and reached the incredible: he created the complete picture of his epoch in a single work of art, – the golden age of Catherine the Great.

The article presents a commentary to the published translated manuscript excerpt from Ch. de Villiers’ book “Kant’s philosophy or basic principles of transcendental philosophy” (1801) which was at G.R. Derzhavin’s disposal. In the article suppositions about the authorship of the translation are suggested and a substantial characteristic of the document is given. The author formulates arguments revealing the character of Derzhavin’s creative perception of Kant’s ethics basic ideas, grasped due to the fact that they were accessibly presented in Ch. de Villiers’ work and acquired an original interpretation in a set of his poetic writings in 1810-s. The original text of the translated excerpt is provided as a supplement to specify the circle of Derzhavin’s philosophical interests in the late period of his creative carrier.

Slovene poetry has four systems of versification: syllabic system of learned protestant church hymns in 16^th century, accentual-syllabic verse of literary poetry in 18^th throu 20^th century, dol‘nik (strict-stress meter) in 19th century literary poetry, free verse of 18^th century church drama and 20^th literary poetry. Verse of sung folk songs is a kind of accentual-syllabic.

The article comprises the works of three authors, which are, in our opinion, of great interest for historians, literary historians, and scholars in culture studies: They are diary notes by Franz Zupanchich, Alexander Lichan’s book “Memories of Siberia” and “Autobiography of Humanitarian” of Voeslav Mole “From the Book of Memories”. In their perception of Russia and the Russians, these authors demonstrate their different social status and individual differences of their nature. However, despite all the differences, works by Zupanchich, Lichan and Mole present exactly reconstructed realities of their time, allow to experience its atmosphere, adding new features to the portrait of Russia of that time.

Izhodišče celotnega razpravljanja o prostem predložnem morfemu bi lahko bilo, da je predlog morfem, in sicer prvenstveno glagola. Predlog kot prvenstveno glagolski prosti morfem se dopolnjevalno navznoter leksikalizira v prostomorfemski glagol, npr. temeljiti na, ukvarjati se z/s, in določujoče oz. vezavnovezljivo navzven, npr. dela na domu, dela na projektu / dela doma, projektno dela. Večjo skladenjskopomensko osamosvojenost predlogov omogočajo tudi besednovrstni prehodi iz samostalniške predložne zveze v prislov, ki pa je v vsakem primeru glagolska okoliščina, npr. v ilegali > ilegalno, v modi > modno, na psu > pasje. Tako je predlog vedno v dvojnem in dvojem razmerju upravljajočega in upravljanega stavčnega člena. Skrajnosti sta leksikalizirana prostomorfemskost glagola ali strukturnoskladenjska vezavna družljivost predloga v prislovni predložni zvezi.

The article presents today’s language policy that the Serbian government has towards minority languages with the example of Slovene and against the background of demographic trends for the Slovenian population. We see the Republic of Serbia as a final successor to the SFRY, drawing parallels with the language policy of the SFRY and today’s language policy towards Serbian in the Republic of Slovenia. We have reviewed sources that claim to restore a true-to-life sociolinguistic picture of the region. Following the discussion, we conclude that at the level of legislation about the language policy, the Serbian government is acting successively, declaring equality of languages in terms of strategic multilingualism. The example of Slovene as a language of a national minority confirms this, including in aspects of cultural autonomy and legal equality. The language policy of the Republic of Serbia mirrors the process of rapprochement with the EU and recent justice reforms. Needs of the market and the globalized society are also considered. The government’s actions are constructive and promising in spite of negative demographic phenomena and trends for specific ethnic groups and national minorities. In the aspect of law enforcement, there are a number of unresolved issues, shown with judicial practice.

The article deals with the unexplored sphere of contemporary world literature – texts in ancient Greek (20^th–21^st centuries). Ode to Stalin by Jan Křesadlo fully demonstrates the actuality of Ancient Greek literature and shows that contemporary literature that uses Ancient Greek language is firmly connected with Сlassics, Hellenistic and Late Antiquity literatures.

This article provides a brief overview of the history of the Spanish political party “Podemos” and its discourse, which is important, since there’s lack of papers on the issue in the Russian linguistics. The author explores various aspects of the party’s discursive strategy.