RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY AT THE PRESENT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT (THE END OF XX - THE FIRST DECADE OF THE XXI CENTURY)
This article is devoted to the main tendencies of development of the Russian linguistic geography at the end of XX - the first decade of the XXI century. The author characterizes five main tendencies. These tendencies are the creation of regional atlases, mapping of the lexical phenomena, interlingual researches, interpretative researches and introduction of computer technologies.