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[Yury Tarasievich]

On 07/31/2010 04:41 PM, CE Whitehead wrote:
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> O.k., in any case, is it possible that a "Commonwealth of Independent States" variety of Russian might develop?

Looking from here and now, it'd rather not. 
About the only inter-state standartisation 
actually happening is in the terminology of the 
Russian-language verbatim equivalents of ISO 
(IEC etc.) standards, which are approved as 
inter-state (Rus. межгосударственный) standards. 
And of course, Russian Academy continues to 
maintain the codified literary norm (ru_RU, so 
to speak).
Hope it helps.

-Yury