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Dialects do happen in illiterate societies.
The communists had its faults but they did achieve one great thing - nearly 100% literacy among the population of the USSR. Everyone can read and thus...

I repeat - there are NO dialects in Russian.

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.

Well, I don't think English has dialects. (Unless you call BrE and AmE dialects). Probably Africaans :)

You can call some speech a dialect when the same word has a different meaning.

That's because of the TV.

You will eventually notice some differences :D
But don't be mistaken here. There are NO dialects in Russian. All people in Russia speak the same language and you will understand anyone speaking...

The differences in speech become noticeable when going from the north to the south. Moving from the West to the East (ethnic republics like Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, etc excluded) would not reveal...

I don't think the speech of the people from Murmansk would differ much from the speech of the people from Arkhangelsk. The both cities are located in the north, though the one from Arkhangelsk would...