World War II had great influence on the future of former Yugoslavia and the modern Croatia still makes itself felt not only in its politics, political parties, but also in art and literature. According to incomplete statistics, in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, have been about 15,000 monuments dedicated to the so-called National Liberation War. Many of these monuments were partly or completely destroyed or damaged during the decay of Yugoslavia in the 1990-ies. Part of the Croatian society still believes that the World War II, except the great victory of Croatia – was a tragedy for croatia people. Some politicians are rather accurate in the evaluation of the World War II because they are afraid to loose votes in the elections. Key words: Croatian War for Independence, Bleiburg, Jasenovac, Stepan Mesić, monuments, Liberation War, World War II, politicians, Kamensko village.

The paper deals with selected psychological aspects which need to be taken into account in foreign language teaching using modern information and communication technologies. A special attention is paid to the communicative acts and the communication process on the Internet, positive and negative language transfer, audio and visual perception. It also deals with the relationship of knowledge, skills and automation which a student is supposed to acquire. Further aspect for successful foreign language education is determining the cognitive style of a student and consideration of his / her stage of mental development. The last aspect analysed in this paper is the key problem of motivation.

The paper discusses two kinds of revision of the Church Slavonic translations of St. John Chrysostom homilies, correlated with the Serbian and Russian language environment. In 1615 on Mount Athos the Serbian monk Job Shishatovac adapted the Russian translation of homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew of St. John Chrysostom, made by the monk Silvanus and Maxim the Greek in 1524 to the Serbian variant of Church Slavonic. Not later than the 80-ies of the 17th cent. Moscow monk Euthymios Chudovsky made amendments to the Serbian translation of John Chrysostom sermons “About statues”. Analysis of the amendments in two manuscripts of both translations leads to the conclusion that the dissimilarity in their approach to revision are explained not only by the difference of original language translations, but also by the common notion of the Serbian and the Russian revisers about the standard of the Church Slavonic language.

The article demonstrates how the motif of truth and lies in the film “The Ballad of a Soldier” (1959 ) is formed with the communicative level means. It proves the necessity to use the semantic communicative analysis method by the Russian language specialists, in particular, during the teaching of Russian as a foreign language. The author shows how important communicative values that describe characters, situations and form the communicative design of the movie, are lost in translation. The communicative semantics analysis of spoken movie dialogue is suggested. It may be used in teaching this aspect Russian native speaking and foreign students.

The article describes the imaginative world and the problems of the cycle by Mikhail Bulgakov “Notes of a young doctor” and the story “Morphine”. The main attention is paid to the methods of artistic images of bodily life as a complexly organized “text”, which became the subject of scientific and medical, esthetic, moral, social reflection, and is included in the space of collective consciousness and the unconscious, which is especially apparent in the stories of “Steel throat” and “Darkness Egyptian”. Conceptualize and image Bulgakov the doctor: in a series of “Notes of a young doctor” is a person who through contact with the bodily life of the patient passes increase school novel as “Morphine” is interpreted as a tragic story about the surrender of the person in front of morally corrupted elements of physicality. The “medical” prose of Bulgakov’s diary, confessional elements combine with sharply outlined plot drawings, psychological and socio-cultural generalizations.

The article concerns the contact-typological parallel of two literary texts – “Zashita” (“Defence”) by V. Nabokov / Sirin (1930) and “Schachnovelle” (“The Royal Game”) by S. Zweig. The author of the article discovered the thematic similarity correlation as well as correlation at the levels of the problems, plot, characters etc. The chronological paradox of the parallel lies in the fact that it is Zweig’s novel that stands out for its traditional, realistic manner, although it was written 10 years later than “Defence”, a novel that marked the birth of a new style –that is of mystical Metafiction.

The article discusses the images of «Das Wütende Heer» and «Die Wilde Jagd» in the traditional German mythology. A lot of the famous poems in the German literature – «Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd» of K.T. Körner and «Der Wilde Jäger» of G.A. Bürger are closely connected with the images of the German mythology and the German national folklore tradition. In the poem of K.T. Körner the heroic struggle of the German people against Napoleon is considered simultaneously with the well-known theme of the German mythology – «die wilde Jagd», «das wütende Heer» with the principal German God Wodan (Odin) at the head. The poem «Der wilde Jäger» of G.A. Bürger is consecrated with the traditional image of the German Mythology.

One of the main voice activity modeling problems for the properly linguistic and interdisciplinary purposes is to identify the normal (standard) and deviations (distortion), when the speaker enters into communion, among their number where the speaker creates text of particular type in conditions of natural or constructed communicative situation. These standards and deviations may occur both for the selection and combination of specific linguistic resources, and at the level of tactics and strategy of the author of the text. The article deals with the variation in the description of complex real color images of the normal speaker (without cognitive and speech disorders), and discussed the possibility of using some variative parametres for psychiatric research (in particular, schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Operation of «selection and combination» as applied to the description of the image include, on the one hand, the choice of referenced objects and combining them into a scene, on the other – the choice of nominations for these objects, and the whole scene and syntactic methods of combination of these nominations for the purpose of a various categorization and prioritization these objects in descriptions. Comparison with using these two parameters allows to distinguish the central and peripheral zone in the descriptions of a single image and typify the significant «deviations».

Among the more persistent myths concerning the history of the English language there is the one connected with the exceptional role of Chaucer’s writings and of the King James Bible in the development of the national standard. Important though these texts were, the former at the time of its creation coexisted not only with the works of Gower and Langland, but also with the linguistically much more influential official and religious writings, while the latter was a derivative once removed of the original translation of the Bible into English by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. The present article views the complex picture of the interaction between various 14th–16th century English religious writings and other devotional and non-devotional texts, considered against the general background of the English history of the period specified.

The article deals with the problems of teaching of Old Russian literature in a magister’s program. The study, identification and search of medieval sources used now help to improve competencies and skills studying philologists, contribute to a better understanding the archaic literary creation interpreted in contemporary texts.

The article deals with the conceptual shift from Russian as «the language of interethnic communication» to the Russian language as a means of self-expression in national literatures as a result of deliberate choice, because Russian language is not the means of intercultural communication, but the immanent factor for the setting of the national identity. It is appropriate to talk about the opening of new creative possibilities both for the Russian language, which exists in the diverse national-cultural spaces, and consequently absorbs the new meanings and semantic tones, and the Russian-speaking national (Kazakh, Azerbaijan, Tatar, Kalmyk, and others.) writers that broaden their horizons and attract new readers. Appeal to the speech forms of another language, the free choice of language not override the problems of identity, so important for each of the national literature. The necessity for objective study of works of Russian-speaking writers of the former Soviet Union is increasing, requiring greater attention to the variability of national literary practices.

The article concerns features of the contemporary literary process in Ukraine and Belarus. Some theoretical issues are raised in it: periodization and phenomenology e.g. difficulties of unbiased evaluation of ambiguous originative biographies and pieces of writing. In the historical and literary aspect an attempt is undertaken to see the cause-and-effect relations in the development of East Slavic literatures after 1991 considering social and political changes (especially for Ukraine). The subject of research is the literature of the two ex-Soviet republics in Russian and national languages.

The author develops an idea that the fourth wave of emigration in contemporary Russian literature is a result of the collapse of the USSR and the formation of the Russian-speaking diaspora literature in the former Soviet space. The novels “Kamennyje Sny” (“Stone Dreams”) by A. Aylisli (Azerbaijan), “Epokha Mertvorozhdennykh” (“The Epoch of Stillborn”) by G. Bobrov (Ukraine, LNR) and “Puteshestvie Khanumana na Lolland” (“Hanuman’s Travel at Lolland”) by A. Ivanov (Estonia) is analyzed in terms of confrontation and interpenetration of the Azerbaijani, Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, Western, Asian and other types of culture.

The article concerns the main trends of the Russian-language literature of Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period. The chronological frameworks of investigation embrace the period of 1991–2015. The author investigates the essence of this artistic phenomenon, analyzing the prose of those writers whose creative work is recognized by the intellectual community, to identifying the main trends and tendencies of development and predicts the prospects relying on the modern theoretical methods of Science and Literary studies.

The article reveals the characteristic for the creative aspirations of the second half of the twentieth century, the shift in scientific discourse to fiction. In the ʻRecords and extractsʼ M.L. Gasparov international discourse led to a sequential transformation of classical philosophical and literary terminology, and also led the scientist to revise the classical conception of creativity. Considered dissipative process in the field of anthropological ideas Gasparovа, shows the birth of a «new order out of chaos». Analysis of interdiscursivity linked to the review of formation of new features of the genre of ʻRecordsʼ shown their «romanization».

In English literary criticism historically there was ambivalent determination of artistic works – romance and novel – unlike most of the European languages operating one or another «romance» modification. Stability of «memory of term» and «memory of genre», tendency of genre modality, conditioned by aspiring to variations and freedom of form, was reflected in the determination of artistic works. Round these fundamental concepts terminology sphere is formed. Researches put a question about creation of the thirdgenre «postmodern romance», connecting the features of romance and novel. 20 / 21 century prose creates the non-classical variations of original genre synthesis. New romance and new novel are examined on the А.S. Byatt «philological» novel ʻPossessionʼ example. The work includes modern reflection, concerning the semantics of terminological definition.

This article presents a dictionary and a thesaurus as opposite poles. It identifies the major trends affecting the development of the thesaurus corresponding to the actual objectives of the study of the history of Medieval European literature. These trends are examined primarily on examples of genre definitions applied to samples of epic poems. In particular, it is proposed to pay attention to the mobility of the genre definitions, which functioned in the Middle Ages.

The article asserts that the musical term “polyphony” was for the first time introduced into literary discourse in connection with the analysis of novel by F.M. Dostoyevsky not by M.M. Bakhtin in “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Art” (1929) but by V.L. Komarovich in the article “Dostoevsky’s Novel A Teenager as an Artistic Unity” (1924). The common sources of their discovery are traced, on the one hand, in the work of the Russian symbolist poet and philosopher V.I. Ivanov, and the Danish esthetician B. Christiansen – on the other. If Ivanov’s role as a forerunner of Bakhtin’s views was observed by researches long ago, but the role of the philosophical bestseller by Christiansen “Philosophy of Art” (Russian translation: 1911) in the development of the concept of literary “polyphony” was for the first time raised in this article. Also the differences in the semantic content of a new term were marked here by both researchers of Dostoevsky. Komarovich perceived “polyphony” of the work in the context of “teleology” marked by Christiansen and linked it with “superempirical” unity of art structure. Bakhtin fundamentally opposed the character’s “voices” to the author’s generalized will and referred to the incompatibility of the both.

We describe and analyse the results of the First Seminar in Literary Translation for Young Russian-Speaking People that took place on February 12–26 at the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University during the academic year of 2015–2016. Due to this initiative, a pioneer one in Russian, we trained Russian-speaking university students in the field of literary translation from Catalan in order to ensure the dissemenation of not yet translated Catalan literature among the Russian public.

The article concerns the first and the main problem any translator of Platonov comes across: the way to find a right voice for the author in the foreign language and the very possibility to achieve this goal. The hardest part of this work lies in the fact that the right voice of Platonov is always an odd one, so the translator risks his or her reputation of a good and accurate translator.

The article provides a survey of the main tendencies of the Catalonian literature into Russian since 1970s. It is noted that the strategy of translation depends on the political situation in Spain and Russia (the Soviet U.). Several trends of translation are revealed: modern poetry and narrative, medieval compositions, folklore. The author stresses the importance of translators’ web-portals for the dissemination of Catalonian literature and the necessity of master-classes and seminars for the students investigating literary translation in order to preserve continuity of the Russian school of translation. The article provides an immence bibliography of Russian translations of Catalonian fiction.

This article concerns the theoretical issues of Spanish intonology and the history of Spanish intonation studies. It presents the main ideas of various approaches used by Spanish and Latin American phoneticians for intonation description. In addition to reviewing the prosodic theories proposed by T. Navarro Tomás, A. Llorach and A. Quilis, on which the study of Spanish phonetics has traditionally been emphasized, this article also contains an analysis of the current state of Spanish intonology as well as a brief overview of researchers’ work in this field during the last several decades.

The article explores the concept of “populism” in political theory and the realization of a given political strategy in the discourse of the Spanish political party “Podemos”. The article is based on the research carried out on speeches made by party representatives. This article may be of use to anyone researching the characteristics of the political discourse as well as to anyone interested in pursuing interdisciplinary approaches to philology, sociology and political science.