For the first time in Ivanovo, the Ivanovo University of Chemical Technology hosted the International Student Conference "Russian at the Turn of the Millennium"at the end of last year. 2001 was not only the first year of the new century, the third millennium, but also the year of the world's languages, as decided by the Council of Europe. The linguistic student conference was dedicated to this big event. It is noteworthy that it was held in a technical higher educational institution, because one of the goals of this event was to draw attention to the problems of the Russian language specifically non-philological students, whose curricula included the new discipline "Russian language and speech culture". The idea of holding such a conference found a wide response: the organizing committee of the conference received more than 120 applications for participation from students and postgraduates from near and far abroad (Finland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan), major cities of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, Vladimir, Magnitogorsk, Surgut, Kursk). International students and postgraduates studying at Russian universities, including Ivanovo, and representing such countries as China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Syria, Pakistan, Palestine, Nepal, Senegal, Cameroon, etc. took an active part in the conference. The conference program included both plenary and breakout sessions. The plenary reports covered various aspects of the functioning of the Russian language and issues of speech culture in society: the geopolitical situation in our country and the activities of the Peace Foundation to strengthen the position of the Russian language page 125 (G. A. Kuzmina), the word as an element of the spiritual culture of the nation (Abbot Augustin), speech technique and mastery as an effective means of successful communication (actor V. A. Alexandrovsky), the place of language in electronic and print media (N. B. Egoshina). The repor ... Читать далее