PhD, Professor. Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature, University of Kentucky (USA)

PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Southern California (USA)

PhD, Professor Emeritus of Music Anthropology, University of Tampere (Finland)

DSc in Philology. Professor, University of Novi Sad (Serbia)

President of the Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia (Abkhazia Republic)