Recent studies have shown that the number of international students, who are academically mobile, is growing. As a result, higher education institutions aim at competitiveness in the world market. Therefore, the core issue of the following work is a process of adaptation of international students to a new educational environment, especially to the process of English teaching and learning in new frameworks. Thus, the purpose of the study is to understand the role of a language teacher in the process of international students’ foreign language learning by comparing faculty’s and students’ views on certain aspects of the educational process. For the following study, quantitative and qualitative methods to collect data using questionnaires with closed-ended and open-ended questions were applied, and the data analysis was carried out. The data obtained from the conducted survey reveals the importance of studying English for international students, their motivation and difficulties that they have to face. Moreover, the obtained data show the great complexity of the English syllabus and ways of its adaptation to the needs of international students. Furthermore, the results of the survey determine an important role of the professional culture of the second language teacher in the context of integrating students into the Russian academic environment.

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In connection with the forecasted purposes of the digital economy`s development in Russia, as well as investments in the human resources` development for digital economy, there is an actual question how much the digitalization of the society and business can increase the efficiency of the human capital`s work in the Russian Federation and lead it to the level of European countries. In this regard, the purpose of the following work is to determine the potential of the human capital`s development of Russia by 2025 due to the digitalization of its economy. In the following work an indicator of the labour productivity is used as an indicator of the human capital`s efficiency. Three scenarios for the digital economy`s development of the country are presented. It is shown that with the most optimistic scenario of the digital economy`s development in Russia, the efficiency of the human capital`s use has a growth potential by 71.5% by 2025 compared to the value of the following indicator in 2015. It was determined that the efficient use of the human capital in Russia by 2025 will exceed the human capital efficiency indicator in Poland in 2015, and will not reach the productivity indicator in such countries as the United Kingdom,

The relevance of the chosen topic is confirmed by the increased competition among the participants of the commercial real estate market, which is connected with the market saturation. The study aims to assess the impact of modern digital technologies on the performance of a shopping and entertainment center. Research was conducted using the example of a retail and entertainment center in Saint-Petersburg. The work proposes a “smart” approach to management, where additional investments are taken into account when the digital infrastructure is being created. The research shows that the transition from a traditional business management to a “smart” variant of property object‘s development, based on the active use of digital technologies, leads to a significant increase in its capitalization, traffic, average bill and occupancy by tenants. The novelty of the following work is to justify the economic efficiency of the application of digital technologies‘ in retail based on the calculation of the retail and entertainment center‘s capitalization value change under the influence of the implementation of automated accounting. The presented research can be used to develop a methodology for assessing the impact of the introduction of digital technologies on the efficiency of shopping and entertainment facilities.