New Communicative and Expressive Powers in Online and Offline Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

. The article contains the first results of online education of foreign students with various levels of competence in the Russian language (main-ly in conditions of the Russian educational environment). On the example of teaching non-native learners with a philological and non-philological focus in a new distant working mode caused by the pandemic, the defined pros and cons of education in a new educational reality are analyzed. Communicative and expressive powers of online and offline education in teaching Russian as a foreign language are viewed in this context. Abstract. This article assesses the effectiveness of modern approaches in teaching and studying Russian as a foreign language (Station Rotation, Flipped Classroom). The author reviews the most popular electronic educational resources in teaching and studying Russian as a foreign language, paying par-ticular attention to such two foreign resources, but gaining popularity among