Publication Policy

Publications from issue no. 3 2022 are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) , which allows unrestricted use of works for non-commercial purposes, subject to attribution. This means that people can share the material (copy and redistribute in any medium or format), as well as adapt it (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for non-commercial purposes as long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms are being followed. For more information please read the summary of the CC BY-NC licence at Creative Commons.

Content published up to and including Issue no. 2 2022 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) , which allows unrestricted use of works, including for commercial purposes, subject to attribution. This means that people can share the material (copy and redistribute in any medium or format), as well as adapt it (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially, as long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms are being followed. For more information please read the summary of the CC BY licence at Creative Commons.

The journal is currently indexed in the following research databases:

• Scopus
• Russian Higher Attestation Commission Index (K1)
• Russian Index of Science Citation
• Ulrich's Web
• Linguistics Abstracts Online (Wiley)
• Google Scholar
• EBSCO
• ROAD
• CyberLeninka
• British Library
• Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford)
• Ghent University Library

This journal is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication. Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition. It means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. For more information please read BOAI statement. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge (open license Creative Commons).

Full-text electronic content published in Training, Language and Culture is stored in the Institutional Repository (included in the NORA project – the National Open Repositories Aggregator), eLIBRARY scientific electronic library, CyberLeninka scholarly e-library, as well as on the server of the journal website available on the Archive page.

Training, Language and Culture is committed to ensuring a fair and productive peer review process to secure the integrity of the scholarly record, and adheres to the policies promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The peer review process depends to a large extent on the trust and willing participation of the scholarly community and requires that everyone involved behaves responsibly and ethically. This journal uses double-blind review with the typical period of 3 weeks allowed for reviews. More information on the journal's peer review policy is available on the Peer Review page.

The journal is published quarterly (four issues per year coming out in March, June, September and December) with each issue incorporating 6 to 10 original research articles, 1 to 4 reviews on relevant books and other publications on the subjects within the Aims and Scope of the journal.

Manuscripts are submitted electronically via the journal website. Before submitting the manuscript, authors make sure it is prepared in accordance with the TLC Submission Guidelines. In the submission process, authors are required to indicate their full names, affiliations, full academic titles and degrees, email addresses, and research databases IDs. Authors are also required to sign the Publication Consent form, provide a short bio note to disclose their professional background and research history, and identify any organisations, projects or other agencies supporting their publication.

Training, Language and Culture is committed to encouraging responsible publication practices honouring the generally accepted ethical principles. In selecting (review process included), preparing (editing) and publishing manuscripts, journal editors are guided by international standards of publication ethics. The Editorial Board will carefully and responsibly consider all reasonable complaints regarding violations found in published materials. Journal publisher, RUDN University, is a co-founder and member of the Association of Science Editors and Publishers (ASEP) and supports the ASEP Declaration on Ethical Principles for Scientific Publications. The journal also adheres to the policies promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Compliance with publication ethics ensures the integrity of scientific publishing and confidence in published articles. Therefore, Training, Language and Culture expects all authors to adhere to ethical requirements in the preparation of their manuscripts. More information on journal ethical principles is available on the Publication Ethics page.

Authors retain copyright of their work and allow it to be shared and reused, provided that it is correctly cited. The authors transfer the rights to use the article (including the use and distribution of an article in the Open Access) to the publisher of the journal on a non-exclusive license (Publishing Agreement (Public Offer)). At the same time, authors remain full rightsholders.

Terms and conditions for processing personal data of users of the RUDN UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS PORTAL (hereinafter referred to as Terms and Conditions)

1. Conditions, purposes, content and procedure for processing personal data (hereinafter referred to as PD) using automation tools, measures aimed at protecting PD, as well as measures aimed at identifying and preventing violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of PD, which are carried out by the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University), legal/postal address: Moscow, st. Miklukho-Maklaya, 6.

2. The Operator processes of the RUDN Scientific Journals Portal (hereinafter referred to as the Portal) users PD in accordance with these Terms and Conditions within the framework of legal relations with the Operator regulated by the current Russian legislation and Policy.

3. The Operator processes the following types of PD of users:

• surname*
• name*
• middle name / patronymic (if any)
• contact number**
• e-mail*
• user ID stored in the cookie*
• ORCID ID (if available)
• SPIN code (if available)
• Scopus Author ID (if available)
• ResearcherId (if available)
• Mendeley profile (if available)
• Publons profile (if available)
• academic degree
• academic title
• organization (user's place of work/study)
• postal address of the organization (user's place of work/study)
• position, department
• personal page on the website of the organization (place of work) of the user on the Internet

4. The Operator has the right to process the PD listed above in order to carry out the legal activities of the mass media – the Journal posted on the Portal, including providing the User with information about the Journal through the website and by e-mail.

5. The Portal User voluntarily provides the Operator with his PD in the following cases:

5.1. when registering on the website of the Journal posted on the Portal as a Reader.

To access the published materials of the Journal's website (full-text content of issues, information about the Journal, members of the editorial board and editorial board, rules for authors and other sections of the site) for reading and copying, the User does not need to register. The User can register as a Reader only voluntarily.

At the same time, when filling out the registration form, the User provides only those PD that are marked as mandatory (*) in the form: last name, first name, patronymic (if any), email address, user ID stored in the cookie. The remaining items of the registration form are NOT filled.

By ticking the mandatory field "Legal information* / Consent to the processing of personal data", the User, having previously clicked on the link "Consent to the processing of personal data" below and read the text in the window that opens, confirms that he has read these Terms and Conditions of the Policy and his consent to processing by the Operator of the User's PD entered in the registration form. Without such confirmation, registration will not be completed.

The processing by the Operator of the PD of a User registered as a Reader includes collection, creation, recording, accumulation, clarification, modification, addition, update, extraction, copying, use, placement, systematization, archiving, storage, blocking, deletion, destruction. The listed actions are performed through automated processing within the document management system of the Journal's website.

5.2. when registering on the Journal website as an Author:

5.2.1. the only author in the article or the corresponding author in the presence of several co-authors in the article - to upload the article to the Journal's website for the purpose of its consideration by the editors of the Journal and publication in the Journal. By uploading an article to the Journal's website, the Author accepts the offer – transfers the rights to use the article and expresses consent to the processing of his PD by the Operator.

! The author's license agreement for the publication of the article (public offer) is placed in the "Copyright" section of the journal's website in the public domain (registration on the site as a User is not required for preliminary familiarization with the text of the offer).

At the same time, the User, filling out the registration form, makes all the PD listed in clause 3 of these Terms. If the User has already been registered as a Reader by the time the article was submitted (see clause 5.1 of these Terms), he needs to supplement the registration form with the missing information.

By ticking the mandatory field "Legal information* / Consent to the processing of personal data" of the registration form, the User, having previously clicked on the link "Consent to the processing of personal data" below and read the text in the window that opens, confirms that he has read these Terms and Conditions and the Policy and his consent to the processing by the Operator of the User's PD entered in the registration form. Without such confirmation, the registration of the User will not be completed.

5.2.2. a co-author of an article who is not a correspondent author, for the subsequent submission of information about the co-author in the process of uploading an article by a correspondent author to the Journal's website for the purpose of its consideration by the editors of the Journal and publication in the Journal. By filling out the registration form, the User agrees to the processing of his PD by the Operator.

At the same time, the User, filling out the registration form, puts a tick in the role of the Author and makes all the PD listed in clause 3 of these Terms. If the User has already been registered as a Reader by the time the article was submitted (see clause 5.1 of these Terms), he needs to supplement the registration form with the missing information.

By ticking the mandatory field "Legal information* / Consent to the processing of personal data" of the registration form, the User, having previously clicked on the link "Consent to the processing of personal data" below and read the text in the window that opens, confirms that he has read these Terms and Conditions and the Policy and his consent to the processing by the Operator of the User's PD entered in the registration form. Without such confirmation, the registration of the User will not be completed.

The processing by the Operator of the PD of the User registered as the Author / Co-author includes the collection, recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, changing), extraction, copying, use, transfer as part of the article metadata (provision, access), including distribution, depersonalization, blocking, deletion and destruction of PD in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

PD marked in paragraph 3 with the symbol (**) are not subject to transfer and distribution.

5.2.3. when registering on the website of the Journal as a Reviewer to participate in the review of a scientific article submitted for consideration by the editors of the Journal.

At the same time, the User, filling out the registration form, makes all the PD listed in clause 3 of these Terms. If the User has already been registered as a Reader by the time the article was submitted (see clause 5.1 of these Terms), he needs to supplement the registration form with the missing information.

By checking the box "Legal information* / Consent to the processing of personal data" of the registration form, the User, having previously clicked on the link below "Consent to the processing of personal data" and having read the text in the window that opens, confirms that he has read these Terms and Conditions and the Policy and his consent to the processing by the Operator of the User's PD entered in the registration form. Without such confirmation, the registration of the User will not be completed.

Having received a review request sent by the Editorial Board to the Reviewer’s e-mail address with an offer attached and expressing in response to the request consent to participate in reviewing in the user’s personal account, the Reviewer accepts the offer – transfers the rights to use the subsequently prepared review and expresses consent to the processing by the Operator of his PD.

Processing by the Operator of the User's PD, registered as a Reviewer, includes collection, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, modification), extraction, copying, use, transfer to third parties (provision, access); depersonalization, blocking and destruction of PD in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, the following PD of the reviewer are subject to transfer to third parties, namely and exclusively to Scientific Electronic Library LLC (eLIBRARY.ru) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: surname, first name, middle name / patronymic (if any), academic degree, academic title, email, position, organization name. Transfer can be carried out only if the Reviewer accepts the Offer.

PD of the reviewer are not subject to distribution.

6. A user who has registered on the Portal as a Reader / Author (including Co-author) / Reviewer has the right to withdraw his consent to the processing of PD by sending the Operator a corresponding notification to the email address of the Journal's editors, specified in the "Contacts" section of the Journal's website on the Portal.

The editors and reviewers of the journal maintain confidentiality in the process of reviewing the manuscript in relation to the text of the manuscript and accompanying materials in accordance with the rules for acceptance and review, ethical principles set out on the journal's website.

The names, addresses and other personal data provided by you when registering on this site will be used solely for technical purposes: contact with you or with the editors in the process of preparing your article for publication.

Personal data about the authors specified in the article materials (included in the metadata of the article) sent to the editorial office for consideration and publication are subject to publication in the public domain.

When registering a user (as author) on the site, you should indicate only those personal data that the user is potentially ready to provide when uploading an article as information about the author for their publication in the public domain.

The personal data of users who have registered as Reviewers are used in strict accordance with the principle of double-blind peer review adopted by the Journal and are not subject to distribution.

For more information about the policy in the field of personal data processing at RUDN, see the section "Consent of the site user to personal data processing".

The Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education 'Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba' (RUDN University), represented by the Vice-Rector for Scientific Work A.A. Kostin, acting under a Power of Attorney No 0036-03/21-163 dated 12.10.2021, hereinafter referred to as the Publisher, on the one hand, hereby offers to the public at large, hereinafter referred to as the Author, on the other hand, hereinafter collectively referred to as the Parties, to enter into this agreement, hereinafter referred to as the Agreement, regarding publication of scholarly materials, hereinafter referred to as the Article, in the Journal named 'Training, Language and Culture', hereinafter referred to as the Journal, under the following terms.

1. General Terms and Conditions

1.1. Pursuant to Clause 2 of the Article 437 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, this Agreement shall be recognised as the public offer, hereinafter referred to as the Offer. Subject to Article 438 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, this Offer shall be deemed to have been completely and irrevocably accepted after the Author had submitted his/her materials by uploading those using the Journal's online manuscript submission system available in the respective section of the Journal's site at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/submit.html.

1.2. Pursuant to the Russian Federation effective law as applicable to compliance with the copyright to electronic information resources, no materials from any site, electronic journal or project may be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form, either in a hard or soft copy, without a prior consent from the Journal's authors and editorial staff, which may be expressed by posting a respective consent (open license Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 CC-BY-NC) in the relevant section of the Journal's site on the Internet. Whenever any published materials are used within the context of other documents, a reference to the original source needs to be specified.

1.3. The Journal is registered by the Federal Oversight Service for Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (RosKomNadzor).

2. Terms Used in This Agreement

Author is an individual (or individuals) whose creative labour has produced the Article.

Offer Acceptance means a complete and irrevocable acceptance of the Offer under the terms specified in Clause 3 hereof (the Author accepts the Offer by submitting an application to the Publisher, i.e. by uploading the Article along with support materials using the Journal's online manuscript submission system available in the respective section of the Journal's site at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/submit.html.

Journal means an academic periodical named 'Training, Language and Culture'.

Application means an electronic request of the Author addressed to the Publisher for publishing the Article in the Journal by uploading the Article and support materials using the Journal's online manuscript submission system available in the respective section of the Journal's site at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/submit.html.

Publisher is the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education 'Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba' (RUDN University), being the Journal's founder and publisher.

Article's Metadata means any materials intended to be included into the Science Citation database as per the original version of the Article such as the Article title; authors' details (full last name, first name, patronymic, present employer of each author with indication of the postal code, contact details (e-mail) of each author; abstract; keywords; topical classifications: UDC or any other bibliographic and library classification, and subject indices; bibliography (list of references).

Offer means this document (offer to the Author) to publish an Article by uploading it using the Journal's online manuscript submission system available in the respective section of the Journal's site at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/submit.html.

Publication means the act of publishing the Article in the Journal.

Editorial Staff means a creative team engaged in preparing the Journal for publication.

Editorial Board is an advisory body of the Journal's Editorial Office.

Article means a result of fundamental and applied scholarly efforts in the form of a scholarly material, scientific review material, scientific message, bibliographical review on specific topics of the scholarly study submitted by the Author for publication in the Journal.

Parties mean the Author and the Publisher.

Article Requirements mean requirements outlined in the Journal's section named 'Author Guidelines' available online at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/guidelines.html.

Service means publication of the Article in the Journal as per the Author's application.

3. Subject Matter of the Agreement (Offer)

3.1. Subject to this Agreement, the Author shall provide the Publisher at no expense for the copyright duration as stated by the Russian Federation legislation with a non-exclusive license for use of the Author-created Article for the purpose of its publication in the Journal.

3.2. The rights to use this Article as assigned hereunder shall include but not limited to:

• reproduction of the Article or any part thereof, as well as its metadata in any material form whatsoever, including soft and hard copy forms, as an individual work product in periodicals and/or databases (whether local or web-based) owned by the Publisher and/or any other persons at the discretion of the Publisher;
• dissemination of the Article or any part thereof, as well as its metadata on any media as part of the Journal and/or databases owned by the Publisher or any other persons, at the discretion of the Publisher, or as an individual work product, worldwide via open access or by subscription without payment of any fee to the Author;
• making public the Article or any part thereof as well as its metadata so that any person could access the Article from any location and at any time of his/her choice (including via the Internet);
• issuing permissions to use the Article or any part thereof as well as its metadata to any third parties while notifying the Author by publishing the respective information on the Journal's site without payment of any fee to the Author;
• processing, including translation of the Article (including translation into foreign languages), and use of the processed (translated) Article in any manner specified above;
• any other rights, not expressly assigned to the Publisher hereunder, including patent rights to any processes, techniques or methods, and other means, described by the Author in the Article, as well as trademark rights, shall be retained by the Author.

3.3. No territorial restrictions will be applied to the use of rights to the Article.

3.4. This Agreement shall become effective from the time the Article is submitted to the Journal, i.e. uploaded along with support materials using the Journal's online manuscript submission system available in the respective section of the Journal's site at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/submit.html. hereinafter referred to as the Article Upload.

3.5. The rights shall be assigned by the Author to the Publisher at no expense, and the Article publication in the Journal shall not result in any financial contribution to the Author.

3.6. If the Publisher decides to refuse to publish the Article in the Journal, this Agreement shall cease to be in force. A decision to refuse publication shall be sent to the Author via the e-mail address specified in the Application.

3.7. The Publisher undertakes, throughout the currency of this Agreement, to provide to the Author the services associated with publication of the Article on the Journal's site at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org.

4. General Terms of the Services Provision

4.1. The Publisher shall provide the services to the Author only if:

• the Author submits all materials compliant with the Offer requirements by way of Article Upload;
• the Author Accepts the Offer.

4.2. The services shall be provided to the Author free of charge.

4.3. If any materials submitted by the Author are found in breach of rules and requirements of this Offer, the Publisher shall have a right to refuse to publish those.

4.4. The Publisher shall not be responsible for any third-party unauthorised use of the data provided by the Author during the currency of this Agreement.

5. Rights and Responsibilities of the Parties

5.1. The Author warrants that:

• he/she is the valid holder of exclusive rights to the Article; rights granted to the Publisher hereunder were not earlier assigned and will not be assigned to any third parties prior to publication of the Article by the Publisher in the Journal;
• the Article contains all the references to cited authors and/or sources (materials) that are required by the effective copyright law;
• the Author has obtained all required licenses to results, facts and other borrowed materials used in the Article where the Author is not a copyright holder;
• the Article does not contain any materials that may not be published in public sources in accordance with the effective Russian Federation statutory instruments, and the Article publication and dissemination will not involve any disclosure of classified (confidential) information, including state secrets;
• the Author has familiarised himself/herself with the Publication Policy outlined on Journal website at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/publication-policy.html and Publication Ethics outlined on Journal website at https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/publication-ethics.html, and the consequences of violating these policies, has advised other Co-authors of the terms of this Agreement and has received consents from all the Co-authors to conclude this Agreement under the terms hereunder.

5.2. The Author undertakes to:

• submit a manuscript of the Article as per the Requirements to articles;
• avoid using the soft copy of the Article produced by the Publisher for commercial purposes and in other periodicals;
• while preparing the Article for publication, the Author undertakes to:
• make edits specified by readers and approved by the Journal's Editorial Office in the text of the Article and/or revise the Article following the Publisher's request, where necessary;
• proofread the Article within the timeframes specified in the Journal publication schedule;
• make only such edits in the proof that are minimally required to correct errors made in the Article original and/or introduce factual and momentary changes.

5.3. The Author is entitled to pass to any third party a soft copy of the published Article provided by the Publisher pursuant to Clause 5.4 hereof for the Article to be incorporated, in whole or in part, into a scientific information database or repository in order to promote academic or scholarly investigations or for informational and educational purposes subject to the Author, Journal and Publisher being properly referenced.

5.4. The Publisher undertakes to:

• publish the Author's Article, in soft or hard copy form, in the Journal in accordance with the terms hereof;
• provide the Author with the proof of the Article and make reasonable edits as requested by the Author, where required, following the Journal's Editorial resolution;
• provide the Author with the soft copy of the published Article by sending it to the Author's e-mail address within 15 business days of the Journal issue's publication;
• respect the Author's rights established by the effective law, protect those and use best endeavors to prevent any copyright infringements by third parties.

5.5. The Publisher is entitled to:

• carry out technical and literary editing of the Article such that its basic content would remain unchanged;
• review the Article and suggest appropriate changes to the Author, and elect not to publish the Article if the Author fails to introduce such changes;
• require from the Author and/or other persons that the Journal, Publisher, Author and any other copyright holder, as well as the title of the Article, Journal issue identification and a year of publication as specified in the Journal be properly referenced whenever the Journal and/or the Article, including any individual part or fragment thereof, are used by any of the above-mentioned individuals thereafter;
• publish preliminary and/or advertising information on the forthcoming publication of the Article in mass media and any other information sources;
• establish rules (conditions) for acceptance and publication of materials in the Journal. The Journal's Editorial Board, headed by the Editor-in-Chief, shall enjoy an exclusive right to accept and/or reject any materials submitted to the Journal's Editorial Office for publication purposes. No manuscript (tangible medium) submitted by the Author to the Journal's Editorial Office will be subject to return. The Journal's Editorial Staff will not enter into any correspondence regarding the rejection of the Article by the Journal's Editorial Board;
• suspend provision of services to the Author hereunder temporarily for technical, technological and other reasons preventing the services from being provided for the duration of remedial activities;
• suspend services hereunder in accordance with civil procedures if:
• the Article does not correspond to the topics covered by the Journal or by any part thereof, or the submitted material is found insufficient for the individual publication, or the Article design is found at variance with the requirements imposed;
• the Author is in breach of any other obligations assumed under the Offer arrangement;
• introduce changes to the Offer as per the procedure established by the Offer.

5.6. Unless otherwise provided or stated herein, the Parties shall refer to the effective legislation of the Russian Federation.

6. Offer Acceptance and Conclusion of the Agreement. The Term of the Agreement

6.1. This Agreement shall become effective when concluded, i.e. when the Author Accepts the Offer by sending an application to the Publisher, that is, by uploading the Article (Article Upload), and remain in effect for five years.

6.2. Offer Acceptance constitutes an Agreement made in writing (Articles 438 and 1286.1 of the Russian Federation Civil Code) under the Offer terms.

6.3. Unless any of the Parties sends to the other Party a written notification of the Agreement termination no later than two months prior to the end of the specified five-year period, the duration of the Publisher's copyright to the Work shall be automatically extended by the similar period. The number of extensions is not limited.

6.4. The term of the Agreement may not exceed the duration of exclusive rights to the Article pursuant to the Russian Federation legislation.

6.5. Whenever the Author assigns (disposes of) its exclusive rights to the Work to any third party, this Agreement shall remain in effect.

7. Agreement Modification and Termination Procedure

7.1. The Publisher shall have a right to unilaterally modify the terms of this Agreement by giving a prior notice to the Author, at least ten (10) calendar days before such modifications become effective, to the Author's e-mail address specified in the Author's application or via the Journal's site. These modifications shall become effective from the date specified in the respective notice.

7.2. If the Author disagrees with any modification in the terms of this Agreement, the Author shall have a right to submit a written notice of his/her withdrawal.

7.3. This Agreement may be terminated early:

• at any time by mutual agreement of the Parties; or
• otherwise as stipulated herein.

7.4. The Author shall have a right to cancel this Agreement unilaterally by sending the Publisher a respective notice in writing at least sixty (60) calendar days prior to the intended date of the Author's Article publication in the Journal.

7.5. The termination of this Agreement for any reasons shall not release the Parties from responsibility for breach of any Agreement terms during the currency hereof.

8. Liability

8.1. A Party which has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement, either in full or in part, shall be held liable pursuant to the Russian Federation legislation in force.

8.2. All the data provided by the Author shall be trustworthy. The Author shall be responsible for completeness and reliability of the data provided to the Publisher. The use of untrustworthy information obtained from the Author shall not entail any responsibility upon the Publisher for any adverse effects resulting from its actions based on such untrustworthy information.

8.3. The Author shall take full personal responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Russian Federation law on advertising, protection of copyright and related rights, protection of trademarks and service marks, and protection of consumer rights.

8.4. The Publisher shall not be held responsible hereunder for:

• any actions resulting directly or indirectly from the actions of the Author;
• any loss incurred by the Author whether or not the Publisher was in a position to predict such loss.

8.5. The Publisher shall be relieved from any responsibility for non-compliance with the terms of this Agreement if such non-compliance is a result of a force-majeure event such as an act of state authorities, including adoption of legal instruments, fire, flood, earthquake, other natural calamities, loss of power and/or computer network failure, strikes, civil commotions, riots, and any other similar events.

9. Dispute Resolution Procedure

9.1. Any disputes and disagreements shall be resolved by the Parties by negotiations, and if the Parties fail to reach an agreement, these shall be resolved in accordance with the effective law of the Russian Federation.

9.2. If any disagreements remain unresolved, the Parties shall settle those at the location of the Publisher in accordance with the effective law of the Russian Federation.

10. Miscellaneous

10.1. Any notifications, messages, requests etc., excluding documents which need to be forwarded in original form pursuant to the Russian Federation legislation, shall be deemed to have been received by the Author, if delivered (sent) by the Publisher via the Journal's site, including by publishing those, by fax or e-mail specified in the Application, or using other communication facilities. The Parties acknowledge validity of notifications, messages, requests etc. delivered (sent) using the above-listed methods.

10.2. Where the Publisher becomes subject to any claims related to non-compliance with an exclusive copyright or other intellectual property right of any third party during the writing of the Article or in connection with conclusion of this Agreement by the Author, the Author undertakes to:

• immediately upon receipt of a Publisher's notification, take measures to settle disputes with such third party, and, where necessary, join the litigation in favor of the Publisher and use its best endeavors to exclude the Publisher from the defendants;
• reimburse the legal cost, expenses and loss incurred by the Publisher as a result of application of a pre-award relief and measures for execution of a judgment, and damages paid by the Publisher to any third party for the infringement of exclusive copyright and/or other intellectual property rights, as well as other expenditures incurred by the Publisher as a result of infringement by the Author of any warranties provided hereunder.

10.3. Subject to Article 6 of the Federal Law On Personal Data No. 152-FZ dated July 27, 2006, for the period from the conclusion of this Agreement and until the discharge of Parties obligations hereunder, the Author expresses his/her consent to processing of the following personal data by the Publisher: last name, first name, patronymic; taxpayers identification number (TIN); place and date of birth; citizenship details; ID document details; registration and actual location address; e-mail address; mailing address with postal code; contact phone numbers; fax numbers; and details of the employers.

10.4. The Publisher is entitled to process the above personal data for the purpose of this Agreement performance, including for provision of information and reference services to the Author. The processing of personal data shall be understood to mean any handing (operations) with personal data, including collection, systematisation, accumulation, storage, refinement (update, alteration), use, distribution (including transfer to third parties), depersonalisation, blocking and deletion of personal data in accordance with the effective Russian Federation legislation.

10.5. Where permitted by the Russian Federation legislation, the Author is entitled to withdraw his/her consent to processing of personal data as listed in Clause 10.3 by forwarding a respective notice to the Publisher. Upon receipt of such notice, the Publisher has a right to suspend services.

10.6. The Author will, on a goodwill basis, submit his/her details (and details of each Co-Author subject to their prior consent) to the Journal's Editorial Office consisting of his/her: last name, first name, patronymic, academic rank, academic degree, job title, employer details (name and mailing address), work phone number and e-mail address for the purpose of its general publication in the Journal along with the Article.

11. Registered Address and Particulars of the Publisher

Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)

Address: 6 Miklukho-Maklay str., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

TIN 7728073720, CRR 772801001, PSRN 1027739189323

Vice Rector for Scientific Work A.A. Kostin