The relevance of the study is due to the global digitalization and search for tools and practices fostering the process of doctoral students` training for independent quality research using the full range of available digital tools. Digital skills require continuous improvement. Thus, this article is aimed at identifying the possibilities of using mentoring for digital literacy development of British PhDs. Using comparison and terminological analysis the research considers the changing phenomenon of mentoring under the influence of information and digital transformations, identifies important digital skills being developed by doctoral students in the process of mastering the programs offered by UK university libraries. It is also justified that today librarians serve as mentors and can effectively develop digital literacy of doctoral students. The materials are valuable for doctoral students, teachers, mentors, academic librarians who provide professional development programs for researchers working with digital research tools.

Digitisation is a multidimensional phenomenon having direct and indirect impact on all aspects of human activity. The sphere of science and research, especially comparative education research, is being inevitably affected. The dizzying pace of socio-economic changes complicated by COVID-19 pandemic made it obvious that we are dealing with the digitisation of shock, rather than phased, character. The article states the lack of serious scientific reflection on the currently witnessed "shock digitisation" of science, complicated with growing digital illiteracy of researchers. The latter is demonstrated through rigorous literature review and SciVal Scopus analytics. The article is concluded with the idea that the field of comparative education research requires future profound rethinking of assumptions and agenda priorities in several aspects. They include general qualification requirements for modern comparative education researcher and comparative research procedures, functional and digital literacy of comparativists, changes in their research career potentials and prospects.

The paper aims at tracing rapid changes in Russian digital education landscape having been shaken by the pandemic of 2020. To this end the study deals with the bulk of publications contributed by the Russian language authors to the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) Database as the fullest national research representation source, which includes the most influential research journals in the educational domain. The main research question that potentiated this study was weather the “shock digitisation” faced by many teaching practitioners has been problematized in recent Russian educational discourse. We rely upon the proposition that quick and dramatic shifts can impede adequate scientific reconceptualization of digitisation phenomenon as practical needs stand first in the priority. To test the proposition, the method of content analysis targeting the titles and abstracts of the papers included into Russian Science Citation Index database has been used. Findings demonstrated insignificant increase in the number of pandemic related publications on education digitisation. The data obtained suggests that the influence of the pandemic is little observed in the issues addressed by the latest publications in the Russian educational journals. The study can be of certain prognostic value for international comparative educationalists and policy makers.

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The article examines the means to study the creative personality in Nina Berberova’s book “Tchaikovsky. The Story of a Lonely Life”. Nina Berberova is one of the outstanding representatives of the first wave of Russian emigration literature. The author resorts to such diverse means of creating Tchaikovsky’s image as portrait characteristics, which, according to the authors of the article, is not devoid of a psychological component; creative legacy as a defining moment in the life of the hero; memories of contemporaries; historical and cultural context, etc. Having analyzed the work, the authors draw the conclusion that Nina Berberova managed to create a holistic image of the great composer, using a wide range of documentary legacy and comprehending the doctrines of her contemporary times.