(NEWS FROM RUSSIA - 2009. RUSSIAN IN MASS MEDIA.)
This manual is designed for foreign students of the first certificate level. It contains authentic topic-organized material based on the newspaper language of the modern Russian. It also contains a set of exercises which can be done using Internet. The book is supplied with English-German-Russian dictionary which includes about 1200 words of the newspaper language. The manual can also be used by those who want to take their exam of the II or III certificate level. The themes of the book are: mass media in Russia, The Russian state, government and its structure, official visits, business in Russia, local wars in Russia, Russia?s home and foreign policy, tolerance: what does it mean for Russians?, the middle class in Russia.