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DIANA ALANIATHE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF XXI CENTURYThe article deals with the problems of the Russian language evolutionin XXI century, the innovations in the Russian vocabulary caused bythe current tendencies and the social and political factors determining theinternational status of the English language: globalization, the economicgrowth and the political and military expansion of the USA. Today theEnglish language carries out an international language status in theworld. It influences other languages and is the main donor of the age.Great is the impact of English on the Russian language. The English vocabularyreplaces not only Russian words but the earlier borrowings fromother languages too. Notwithstanding the existence of their lexical equivalentsin Russian the English vocabulary prevails and enriches the Russianlanguage with neologisms, borrowings, semantic changes (deactualizationof the meaning, deideologization of the vocabulary, politizationand depolitization of some lexical groups, new-langled, metaphorization,etc.). There is a tendency in Modern Russian to use the passive vocabulary(historical words, archaisms, elevated literary and bookish glossary)to nominate the new reality. The publicism have assimilated the confessionalwords the use of which was prohibited before. The newspapers aboundin highly colloquial (informal) vocabulary, slang words and expressions,criminal cant, words with new semantic nuances. The social eventshave changed the status of the Russian language which became the onlyforeign language in Georgia. It is a de-facto international language in therelations of the neighbours. Besides, the Russian language functions incertain parts of the Georgian population represented not only by RussiansJews, Ukrainians, Armenians, Azarbaijanians, Greeks, Abkhazians, Ossetians,etc., but also by Georgians.116