Jovan Ajdukovic
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Jovan Ajduković is a Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 linguist
Linguistics
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Jovan Ajduković graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1991. His main research intereset is contact linguistics and Russian linguistics, in particular, study of Russianism
Russianism
Russianism, Russism, or Russicism is an influence of Russian language on other languages. In particular, Russianisms are Russian or russified words, expressions, or grammar constructs used in Slavic languages, languages of CIS states and languages of the Russian Federation.However, the scope of the...

s in Slavic languages
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, which was the topic of his Master and Ph.D. theses.

He is an editor of the international online journal Balkan Rusistics (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) and a member of the Advisory Board of The International Journal of Russian Studies (Ankara University
Ankara University
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, Turkey).

Jovan Ajduković is best known for his contribution to the so-called "Theory of Contacteme" (Ajdukovic 2004, Айдукович 2004, 2007) and for his "A Contactological Dictionary of Slavic Languages: The Contactological Dictionary of Adaptation of Bulgarian Contact-Lexemes under Russian Influence (Vol. 1), Belgrade, Foto Futura, 2010, 413 pp.", which formally describes the adaptation of Contact-Lexemes under Russian Influence on each level of language - phonetic-phonological, derivational, morphological, semantic, stylistic, syntactic and conceptual.

Professor Ajduković is involved in the scientific project called Codes of Russian Cultures at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

(Serbia). Special part of the project is dedicated to Russian language in contact with other Slavonic and European languages. Research is will be concerned with following problem: the means of implementing and restraining of Russian language influence on other Slavonic and European languages.
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