Insegnamento universitario del russo e “quadro comune europeo”: stato dell’arte e prospettive

The publication of the new Common European Framework of Reference for Lan- guages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Companion Volume with New Descriptors (2018), which along with updated descriptors, now also contains an in-depth analysis of mediation, offers a timely opportunity for evaluation of how compat- ible the Russian language certification systems are with the Common Framework of Reference, in view of the ever-increasing integration of the European system into university curricula of the Russian language. After a brief look at the two certification systems of the Russian language and their relationship with the Common Framework of Reference, I will highlight the future prospects that medi- ation, understood as a set of activities and the acquisition of skills, opens up to the university teaching of the Russian language.