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Russian

GENERAL INFORMATION

 Number of speakers: 160 million native speakers and 125 million speakers of Russian as

a second language

 Writing system: Cyrillic script, 33 letters.

 Language Family: Indo‐European—Balto‐Slavic—Slavic—East Slavic

 Official language in: Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

68  Unofficial yet still spoken in: Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia,
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Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

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