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Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid-13th centuries. From the point of view of spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn, [37 ...
The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [ a ] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [ b ] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, Old Slavonic.
Russki and Russky (pl. Russkies) are English transliterations of the Russian word русские ("Russians"). The terms may refer to: Russki, a derogatory term for Russians. Russky Island, an island off Vladivostok, Russia. Russky Island (Kara Sea), off the northern coast of Russia. Russky Bridge, between the city of Vladivostok and Russky Island.
Russian language in the Russian Empire according to the 1897 census. The political reforms of Peter the Great were accompanied by a reform of the alphabet, and achieved their goal of secularization and modernization. Blocks of specialized vocabulary were adopted from the languages of Western Europe.
Russian World by O. Kuzmina (CGI, 2015).It depicts Saint Basil's Cathedral of Moscow behind the monument to Minin and Pozharsky.. The "Russian world" (Russian: Русский мир, romanized: Russkiy mir) is a concept and a political doctrine usually defined as the sphere of military, political and cultural influence of Russia.
The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of September 2024, it has 2,000,306 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. [1] In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of ...
Of all the languages of Russia, Russian, the most widely spoken language, is the only official language at the national level.
Russians. Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. Their mother tongue is Russian, the most spoken Slavic language. The majority of Russians adhere to Orthodox Christianity, ever since the formation of the Russian identity in the Middle Ages.