MAIN TRENDS OF LANGUAGE POLITICS IN MODERN EUROPE
The article deals with the problems of foreign language teaching in Europe. The pure communicative methods do not satisfy the modern demands of studing languages in the changed conditions of Europe. With the aim of teaching foreign languages the auther offers cross culture competence for the achievement of mutual understanding in cross culture dialogue. This aim will be realised in cross culture teaching of foreign languages. Teaching Russian as a second or third language and for the children of compatriots abroad invokes new problems witch methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language.