Ten facts about Russian Where is Russian spoken? Russian is the official language in the Russian Federation, which has a population of more than 140 million people. Russian is also spoken in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other republics of the former USSR. Because of the legacy of the Iron Curtain, Russian speakers have a good chance of being understood anywhere from Riga to Belgrade. What you already know about Russian About 10% of Russian words are internationalisms and bear a resemblance to English words. For example: проблема, problem кофе, coffee кафе, café There are plenty of loan words from Italian, French or German, so you have an advantage if you know any of these languages already. Admittedly those loan words might look a bit archaic as they made their way into the Russian language in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as the word парикмахерская, "hair salon", from the German word for "wig maker." The main source of loan words for modern Russian is Engli...
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