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A large part of the population (63% as of 2011), especially the older generations, can speak Russian as a foreign language. [70] Only 3% used it as the main language with family or friends or at work, though. [34] English has replaced Russian as lingua franca in Lithuania and around 80% of young people speak English as the first foreign ...
In 2015, a survey taken in all federal subjects of Russia showed that 70% of Russians could not speak a foreign language. Almost 30% could speak English, 6% could speak German, 1% could speak French, 1% could speak Spanish, 1% could speak Arabic and 0.5% could speak another language. [73]
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Russian is the only official language at the national level and there are other 35 official languages, which are used in different regions of Russia. [ 1 ] Official language
For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [2] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.
Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]: 160,000,000 [1]: 2 German: 97,000,000 [2]: 170,000,000 [3]: 3 French: 81,000,000 [4]: 210,000,000 ...
The Russian language is a language of inter-ethnic communication. (Article 2) Implementation: The Russian language is used in the legislative process. The official publication of laws and regulations is carried out in Russian. De facto entities recognised as de jure sovereign states by at least one UN member state; a. Abkhazia
However, English has replaced Russian as lingua franca in Lithuania and around 80% of young people speak English as their first foreign language. [68] In contrast to the other two Baltic states, Lithuania has a relatively small Russian-speaking minority (5.0% as of 2008). [ 69 ]