Аннотация:The article contains the first results of online education of foreign
students with various levels of competence in the Russian language (mainly
in conditions of the Russian educational environment). On the example
of teaching non-native learners with a philological and non-philological focus
in a new distant working mode caused by the pandemic, the defined pros and
cons of education in a new educational reality are analyzed. Communicative and
expressive powers of online and offline education in teaching Russian as a foreign
language are viewed in this context.