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The Russian legislation proclaimed the equality of all languages ​​of the peoples of Russia and guarantees of their preservation and development. It also not only secured the right to freely use these languages, but also introduced the status of the state languages ​​of Russia and the republics. In recent years, there have been tendencies, on the one hand, of the priority support for the Russian language as the state language and the "language of the state-forming people", and on the other hand, of the weakening of the position of other languages of Russia and, as a consequence, an increase in the demands for guarantees of the preservation of linguistic diversity. In my presentation, I will analyze legal acts and political documents in order to trace the main trends in the development of the current situation and determine the place of linguistic diversity in legal and political discourses, as well as the existing possibilities for its preservation in the framework of institutions and informal practices within the Russian legal and political system. In conclusion, I will touch on the issue of measures aimed at supporting the preservation of diversity that are being carried out at the federal level within the framework of current legislation, as well as amendments to the current language legislation necessary to expand the political and legal space of linguistic diversity.