Ardith Hinton:

AH> A  male  friend  of ours, who was born in one of
AH> the ex-USSR countries, introduced us a few weeks
AH> ago  to his new girlfriend... born in another of
AH> the ex-USSR countries.  I hope this relationship
AH> lasts  because she & I liked each other from the
AH> start!  Anyway, she  mentioned  in  conversation
AH> that  the  Russian  language has no dialects.  I
AH> don't disbelieve it.  But as a native speaker of
AH> English  I  found  myself quite surprised by the
AH> idea, and as the sort  of  person  who  consults
AH> various  sources  I would also like to hear what
AH> *you* think.  :-)

Russian has dialects of course, but they don't  seem
as  disparate  as  those  of  English.  On the other
hand, read this one if you can:

   http://tortuga.angarsk.su/unrar/dal__w07/d_govor.txt

That file is encoded in DOS-866, and I can help  you
with both encoding and translation.

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