I am an assistant professor of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Lomonosov Moscow State University. I am an expert in cross cultural communication and distance learning, with 29 years’ university teaching experience. I have numerous published works, including 10 original textbooks and course books. I am the leader of the team of authors of the “Just English” series of textbooks (English for lawyers) which have proved popular in and outside Russia, having sold 250.000 copies to date and awarded the prestigious Moscow University Shuvalov prize. I am the author and coordinator of the Just English website for students of law and co-author of the website for students of Russian word-wide Just Russian. I have also authored a series of international distant language competitions for students.