The panel is the successor of the panel "Slavonic-Germanic comparative studies", which worked at the conference for several years, and continues its problems. At the sessions of the panel the participants discuss the following issues of comparative studies of imagology and translation: language contacts between Slavonic and non-Slavonic languages at the level of lexicology, phraseology and paremiology; literary translation from Slavonic languages into non-Slavonic languages; literary translation from non-Slavonic languages into Slavonic languages; problems of comparative literature as seen in the literatures of Slavonic and non-Slavonic countries; Slavonic-non-Slavonic intercultural contacts; identification of Slavonic peoples in non-Slavonic environment; transnational literature, cultural and national identity of Slavonic emigration in non-Slavonic countries, including creative self-identification of Slavonic writers-emigrants in the UK, USA, Australia, Germany, Austria, France, etc.; transfer of Russian culture through Slavonic countries to the West; cultural role of Slavonic diasporas in non-Slavonic countries and other problems of Slavonic-non-Slavonic comparative studies