Keyword: «культура»

The article analyzes what the German mass media say about Russia so that to confirm or deny some popular stereotypes.

The article touches upon the issue of forming communicative competence while teaching foreign languages. The author describes the opportunities of realizing cross-cultural communication and modeling dialogue of cultures in a foreign language classroom, putting a special emphasis on the significance of using art materials in forming the worldview, the feeling of tolerance to cultural values of the target culture.

The article discusses the possibility and necessity of including the cultural factor in the analysis of cross-border cooperation between Russia and Finland. The author considers the general scheme of actions when analyzing sociocultural factors and their influence on the level of cross-border cooperation. The article also summarizes the existing methods of quantitative analysis of socio-cultural factors, highlightes the techniques that are most suitable, according to the author, for the purpose of analyzing the influence of culture on cross-border cooperation.