Keyword: «the law of economy of speech means»

The article is devoted to the problem of language variability, namely the active processes taking place at the word-formation level of the modern Russian language. The article describes such most productive models as the formation of names of people, abstract nouns, relative adjectives, verbal nouns, verbs, prefixes, compound words and abbreviations. All word-formation models are illustrated with examples from the texts of the periodical “Arguments and Facts”.