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Not every researcher qualifies Russian as a pluricentric one. This point of view is reasonable from the areal approach. Features of the mentioned category of languages cannot be fully applied to the Russian language. In my opinion, it is very important to define the main issues, considering different aspects of the language functioning, to regularize metalanguage and to develop methods of analysis and their appropriate application. It sets up basics of an integrative research model of functioning Russian as a pluricentric one. At the current moment distancing Russian from continental in the former Soviet republics is quite plain. Divergency accumulation advances an occurance of the functional variant and approximates the Russian language to pluricentric.