1. Section A Listening: USSR Perestroika reforms, classical music among youth, national school exams (EGE), cultural and seasonal perception of St. Petersburg, personal preferences during White Nights
2. Section B Reading: Belarusian ancestor-honoring ritual Dziady, childhood autobiography with rural nostalgia and book passion, blog on urban stress and Moscow privilege, Russian returnees from USA amid economic doubts, glasnost policy’s pros/cons including free press, banned books, social criticism, and media aggression
3. Section C Translation: Walking as universal exercise—accessibility, health benefits, recommended distances, frequency guidance, and Nordic walking trend
4. Key themes: Post-Soviet identity, cultural heritage, educational policy, migration narratives, generational change, urban vs rural life, political reform and public perception
5. Literary and journalistic text formats—blogs, autobiographies, propaganda critiques, sociopolitical articles integrated with factual comprehension and inference tasks
6. Language skills assessed: listening for details, open-response synthesis, vocabulary interpretation, cultural nuance in translation, structured written expression in English.