The article analyzes the peculiarities of the language of the Russian diaspora in Lithuania, \nwhich distinguish it from the language of the metropolis, on the basis of the material of media \ntexts. The main trends in the evolution of new means of expression over the past decades and \nthe regulatory impact of the mass media are revealed. The role of online publications in the \noutput of lexical neologisms outside of Lithuania is also considered. The differences in the \nRussian language of Lithuania are most noticeable at the lexical and semantic level, but the impact \nof the state language of the titular nation also generates graphic, spelling and grammatical \nfeatures. The article touches upon the problems of codification of the local norm. Observation \nof the national variants of the Russian language, emerging in territories outside Russia, will \nhelp to get an idea of the general picture of the existence of the Russian language in the world, \nto see similar and different in the specific of its foreign variants.