This paper explores the relationship between the following (relatively) "small" and "large" (standard) Slavic language pairs: Slovenian – Serbo-Croatian, Lower Sorbian – Upper Sorbian, Slovak – Czech, Rusyn – Slovak, Belarusian – Russian, and Ukrainian – Russian. Iy. The larger languages influence the smaller, and legal equality cannot stop these processes. This article also further works out (the power dimension of) Language Management Theory.