Dr. (Habil.), Professor, Department of Theory for Teaching Foreign Languages, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, M. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Fields of interest: World Englishes paradigm, Sociolinguistics, Intercultural Communication, Translation Studies, Linguistics. Ex-president of Far Eastern English Language Teachers’ Association (1995-1997) and International Association for World Englishes (2011-2012). Co-editor of Dictionary of Intercultural Communication Terms (Moscow: Flinta:Nauka, 2013); Russian English: History, Features, Functions (Cambridge University Press, 2016), The Handbook of World Englishes (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019). Author of Theory of Translation Studies (Moscow: Urait, 2019 ), The ABC and Controversies of World Englishes (Moscow, Berlin: Direct Media, 2015), World Englishes Paradigm (Moscow: Flinta:Nauka, 2017), Intercultural Communication Studies: English and Culture of East Asia (Moscow: Urait, 2020). Co-author of Functional Variations in English: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Challenges. / Giri, Ram Ashish, Sharma, Anamika, D’Angelo, James (Eds.) Springer, 2020; Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age / Ed. by Ahmet Atay & Margaret U. D’Silva. Routledge, 2019; Communicating with Asia. The Future of English as a Global Language / G. Leitner, A. Hashim, H.-G.Wolf (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, a.o.