Vladimir Novikov - Doctor of Philology, Professor, Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University. He is also known as a prose writer, author of the fashionable "Novel with a Language," the love novel "Typical Petrov," the biographical bestseller "Vysotsky." "New Dictionary of Fashionable Words" is a collection of lively, witty stories about the most prestigious and controversial words of the Russian language at the beginning of the 21st century.