On October 13, 2020 distance classes on the course «Academic Writing» on the Zoom platform in connection with the introduction of the quarantine regime were hold. The classes were devoted to international conferences, meetings, discussions and defining the features of academic communication in scientific community. The postgraduate students were shown a video on the topic with further discussion and practical tasks. The postgraduate students composed e-mails, letters of an academic nature and edited written works of  the partners. In addition, it was proposed to prepare monologues on a wide range of the topics related to educational issues in the European scientific and educational space on the basis of read professional literature in English (abstracts, articles, monographs, etc.).