The monograph provides a comprehensive description of the active processes occurring in modern Russian and the speech trends observed in the linguistic and creative activities of the Russian-speaking language personality of the beginning of the 21st century. The approaches to the modern state of the Russian language existing in the domestic linguistic literature were identified, the place of the Russian language in the context of a globalized information and communication space was determined, the main characteristics of the humanitarian educational and linguistic environment were considered, the linguistic norm of the 21st century and the features of its codification were described.