Motivation for learning foreign languages in modern Russia in comparison with other countries

A survey was carried out among students, foreign students, visitors and trainees of linguistic and technical universities in Russia, in particular, in St. Petersburg state university of telecommunications in order to determine their motivation for learning foreign languages. The time length of study, reasons, aims and ways of learning foreign languages are also dealt with in this article. Contrastive analysis of the answers helped to show the peculiarities of foreign language studies in Russia.