Special research shows that there are cultural differences in the style of scientific articles, grant proposals, letters of recommendation, addressing people, meetings. However, we sometimes do not realise that a lot of things we do in the classroom, both as teachers and students, are no less obviously characterised by certain cultural parameters. If we come back to our management questionnaire problems we may see that they can be explained by these parameters. Hofstede studied cultures of 50 countries all over the world and three regions. Hofstede did not study Russia, but we may make certain conclusions, based on our own knowledge of Russian culture.
Power distance is rather large.
Status differences are very strong. More often than not we look up to people in power of any type or level if we ourselves have lower or no power at all. If not very educated people have power, they are eager to show it to others. We all are unhappy about it, and yet it is accepted in the culture. Traditional arrangement of the classroom with one row after another and teacher in the front also reflected teacher centred idea.