International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
The article proves that formation of professional competence with the help of the Russian language is a daunting challenge which the professors of Russian as a foreign language often face. Professional competence is a complex construct including communicative competence. The matter is that the PR specialists' professional activity presupposes a wide range of business communications strategies, as well as different types of communication and leverage.