About 150 million people speak Russian natively, mostly in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. It is the most spoken native language in Europe.
Nearly 260 million speak Russian worldwide, with many speakers residing in Kazakhstan and other neighbouring former Soviet countries.
Russian is an East Slavic language from the Indo-European family. In its spoken form it is most similar to Ukrainian but differs in its written form.
Andrej Arsen'evič Tarkovskij (Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky)Arsenij Aleksandrovic Tarkovskij (Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky)TawaTobolskLev Nikolaevič Tolstòj (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy)Lev Trockij (Trotsky)Ivan Sergeevič Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev)
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