Russian

 

Russian is the most used Slavonic language. In the period of existence of czarist Russia the Russian languague spread all over East Europe and northern Asia as well. In the former Czechoslovakia Russian has been teached obligatory till 1990 year and further it was the main language of an intercommunication. Russian is one of the six languages of the OSN. Russian is spoken by 150 million people. Russian is  the Indo-European language and it is a subgroup of the Slavonic languages. Russian is the official spoken language in the following countries:

 

 

Russia
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Crimea (Ukraine)
Abkhazia
South Ossetia (Georgia)
Gaugazia (Moldova)
Transnistria

Russian is also declared as a language of the minority in China