Russian language legislation: dynamics of development and changes

The article discusses the development of language legislation in Russia in order to determine the potential place of guarantees for the preservation of linguistic diversity in the system of Russian legislation. We have analyzed the laws and regulations that reflect the key trends in the development of legislation and define the place of linguistic diversity in the Russian legal and political discourses. Legislation is not only a result in the form of laws and regulations, but also a process expressed in the stages of lawmaking and law enforcement, as well as in best court practice. Legislation also establishes general provisions that may involve ideological principles. That is why in the theories of language a distinction is made between the study of official policy, which can sometimes be reduced to the official ideology, and de facto policy, which involves the real consequences and results of the policy pursued.