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Russian language in the Russian Empire and its satellite states according to the 1897 census. This article details the geographical distribution of Russian-speakers.After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the status of the Russian language often became a matter of controversy.
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It is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [87] the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, [88] as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. [88] Russian is the third-most used language on the Internet after English and Spanish, [89] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station ...
East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Siberia and the Russian Far East. [1] In part due to the large historical influence of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, the Russian language is also spoken as a lingua franca in many regions of Caucasus and Central Asia. Of the three Slavic ...
Of all the languages of Russia, Russian, the most widely spoken language, is the only official language at the national level. There are 25 other official languages , which are used in different regions of Russia.
Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, German, French, Italian, and English. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [4] and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See English language in Europe.)
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It is the most spoken native language in Europe, [30] the most spoken Slavic language, [31] as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. [31] It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the world's ninth-most spoken language by total number of speakers. [32]