ABSTRACT
One of the most visible outcomes of this technological shift has been the notable increase in the use of the Latin alphabet to write Russian in digital settings, as seen above. Simultaneously, digital technology has Ьесоте an indispensable part of everyday life for Russians. As а result, we now have а situation where both Cyrillic and Latin are used Ьу Russian speakers in day-to-day communication. In sociolinguistics, this phenomenon is геfепеd to as computer-mediated digraphia (Androutsopoulos 2009).1 Despite technological innovations that have made the use ofCyrillic much easier, the digraphic situation persists. In order to understand the full scope of the issue, there is а need to investigate the technological preconditions further.
