Quote Originally Posted by chaika
Ramil, that is not how linguists define the notion of dialects. If you listen to someone's grandma from down south near Ukraine and another's grandma from up in Arkhangel'sk, these people will not be speaking the same way, and I don't mean that the only difference will be on individual lexical items.
Probably I am wrong at my definition, but still those grandmas would perfectly understand each other, that's what I mean when I say that Russian language has no dialects.