Julia is a native Russian speaker and a professional Russian language teacher with over 10 years teaching experience. Julia has taught many students of all levels face-to-face and online and prepared them for different types of exams in Russian. With her keen personal interest and passion for languages she is able to anticipate and understand potential difficulties that are often experienced by students during the learning process. This understanding, coupled with her vast experience of teaching Russian, has led her to create her first textbook. "Advanced Russian through Media" has been inspired by the experiences and feedback of Julia’s advanced students, who, at times, struggled to find appropriate contemporary study materials for their level, and have keenly welcomed this resource.