The article deals with the use of the term “inoslavyanskij” over the period of about the past 10 years in a the professional literature with orientation on methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The author points out that the term is ambiguous and ill-defined. Mentioned is also the coincidence of this term with the fully convenient term “slavyanskij” and the fact that an overstressing of inoslavyanskij could lead to an undesirable emphasizing of the opposition of the notions Russian – non-Russian but Slavonic.