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The artic le reveals the tendencies in language norms development. Language transformation is a natural phenomenon, but certain permissible limits, regulating literary and stylistic norms of publicistic language are also important. The linguistic and stylistic features characterizing the language of modern interviews are formed under the influence of the modern Russian language, which is affected by scientific and technological progress as well as globalization. The main trends in the development of the Russian language and the language of interviews today are the reduction of words, the use of abbreviations, typed language constructions, phraseological units, borrowings, terms, professionalisms, dialectisms, argotisms, and slang expressions. The article studies the characteristic features of the popular public istic interview genre, identifies its distinctive features and classifies interviews types. The interview texts are analyzed as a dictum dialogical construction. Particular attention is paid to the linguistic features of interview texts in the Russian-language print media of Tajikistan.