Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on cultural issues, Chairman of the Russian Language Council under the President of the Russian Federation, President of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL), President of the Russian Society of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (ROPRYAL).

Doctor of Philology, Head of the Department of Typology and Areal Linguistics, Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Head of the Centre for Cognitive Research, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University. Member of the European Academy (Academia Europaea), member of the Presidential Council for the Russian language.

Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia, Director of the Institute of Linguistic Research RAS. Member of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, International Society for Study of the Indigenous Languages of Americas, Linguistic Society of America, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, American Anthropological Association. Teaches at St. Petersburg State University, Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen, the European University at St. Petersburg, the universities of Amsterdam, Berkeley, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, the University of Alaska.

Zamaletdinov Radif Rifkatovich, Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia)

Doctor of Philology, Professor, Director of the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University. Member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on the Russian language, member of the expert council on philology and art history of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Editor-in-chief of the 2 scientific journals “Philology and Culture. Philology and Culture “(approved by Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation) and the international scientific journal” Tatarica “.

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Professor of the Department of General Linguistics of St. Petersburg State University, Head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Research and the Department of Problems of Convergence of Natural Sciences and Humanities, St. Petersburg State University. Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, member of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Association for the Promotion of Science.