Quote Originally Posted by Trzeci_Wymiar
As for Olya's point, yes, the central dialects are referred to as "govory," but the Northern and Southern dialects are referred to as "narechie," if that makes a difference.

As for the word "standard" it's fairly useless to try and use it seriously.
Listen, I'm really tired of arguing with you. You have hardly written a single Russian word except swear-words in this forum, but you're talking about Russian language so complacently.
I'm a Russian native speaker and, believe me, I know about Russian language including the 'standart' language much more than you or some foreign professors do. So go and talk "seriously" with them, not with us.