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Dagestan is a relatively new territory for the spread of the Russian language. At the end of the 19th century, very few people spoke Russian here. In addition to indigenous languages, which Dagestan is very rich in (linguists count more than forty languages ​​in this small territory), local people spoke Azerbaijani, Georgian, Chechen and Arabic. But there has never been a language common for all residents of Dagestan (the language of interethnic communication or lingua franca). Russian became the first such language for Dagestan.

American Psychological Association has selected prof. Klaus Boehnke to receive the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology for the year 2022.

On November 3-5, the members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory Michael Daniel and Nina Dobrushina gave two lectures each at the University of Pavia.

Professor John W. Berry is the most cited Canadian social psychologist, he is also ranked 37th among all social psychologists in the world and 2363 among all scientists in general.

Radio Queen's University chatted with Professor John W. Berry about his lengthy and distinguished research and his election to the Royal Society as a Fellow.

This fall the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory will organize a free online course on the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. The course will start on November 3.

The magazine celebrating 50 years of multiculturalism policy in Canada includes a contribution by John W. Berry.

In early October, members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory published a paper in Language . Language is the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America and one of the most respected general linguistics journals in the world; perhaps the most prestigious one. Since the journal’s launch in 1925, it has seen the publication of only two papers whose first author is a researcher affiliated with a Russian university or institute.