The article presents an overview of the current research directions in modern Russian Germanistics. For the analysis, the most promising areas of linguistic science have been selected, where significant successes have been achieved, and which in the future will be the focus of the attention for Russian Germanists: the species palette of discourse, discursive practices, audio description, speech behavior of social networks users, bi-, poly-, translingualism, simultaneous translation, etc.
speech discourse; discursive practices; audio description; the language of the Covid-19 pandemic; speech behavior of users of social networks; bi-, poly-, translingualism; mural poetry; simultaneous translation.