On February 19-20, information and presentation events were held in Marbella (Spain) to promote Russian publications, textbooks and teaching aids, popular science books and magazines on the Russian language, literature, culture, history of Russia, as well as fiction by Russian authors in foreign countries.
"Marbella is open to the world and similar events, they are important for us," said the representative of the City Hall of Marbella, head of the Department of Culture and Work with Foreigners Remedios Bocanegra.
During the exposition, the participants got acquainted with books by leading Russian publishing houses, among which were such publishing houses as "Science", "Enlightenment", "Russian Language. Courses", "PETER", "Binom" and others. Children's literature was presented by the publishing houses "KompasGid", "BINOM OF CHILDHOOD", "MOSAIC-SYNTHESIS". Educational literature and textbooks were presented by publishing houses: "BINOM: Knowledge Laboratory", "Russian language. Courses", "Russian word – textbook", "Bilingua", RUDN Publishing house. The publishing house of the Kosygin Russian State University presented scientific periodicals. Russian Russian publications exposition included more than 500 books, textbooks, teaching aids, popular science books and magazines on the Russian language, literature, culture, history of Russia, fiction by Russian authors.
Svetlana Remizova, General Director of the publishing house "Russian language. Courses", presented to the audience the novelties of the publishing house and described the current trends in the construction of the content of educational literature. For example, in the literature of the RCT, the trend of rapid presentation of material, including grammatical, persists. Grammar manuals designed in illustrations and diagrams are in demand among students, and textbooks should not be overloaded with grammatical apparatus.
According to the participants, the exhibition presents quite extensively the opportunities of Russian education and resources for teaching Russian to students of any level of training and place of residence – in Russia or abroad. Undoubtedly, such events make a significant contribution to the popularization of the Russian language and culture abroad.
The event was attended by more than 200 people from Marbella, but also guests from other cities of Spain – Madrid, Granada, Bilbao and others, as well as guests from France, Poland and Switzerland: Russian Russian students and teachers abroad, compatriots living abroad and interested foreign citizens, including students of Russian language courses at the representative offices of Rossotrudnichestvo.