WHICH COUNTRIES SPEAK RUSSIAN
Russian is one of the top 10 most widely spoken languages in the world. To be more precise, with 153 million speakers it occupies the eighth place, positioned between Portuguese (220 million speakers) and Japanese (128 million speakers). In total, there are about 258 million Russian-speaking people on the planet. It is a very complex and beautiful language, thanks to which the world-famous literary works of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Tolstoy and many other writers and poets were created.
Important. Russian is one of the most popular languages on the Internet. It often ranks second after English. At least 6% of all websites in the world publish information in Russian.
COUNTRIES WHERE RUSSIAN IS SPOKEN – LIST
| No. | COUNTRY |
| 1. | Russia |
| 2. | Republic of Belarus |
| 3. | Kazakhstan (with legal restrictions) |
| 4. | Kyrgyzstan (with legal restrictions) |
| No. | COUNTRY |
| 1. | Australia |
| 2. | Israel |
| 3. | Moldova |
| 4. | Romania |
| 5. | USA |
| 6. | Tajikistan |
| 7. | Uzbekistan |
| No. | COUNTRY |
| 1. | Armenia |
| 2. | China |
| 3. | Poland |
| 4. | Ukraine |
| No. | COUNTRY |
| 1. | Azerbaijan |
| 2. | Hungary |
| 3. | Georgia |
| 4. | Cyprus |
| 5. | Latvia |
| 6. | Lithuania |
| 7. | Mongolia |
| 8. | Turkmenistan |
| 9. | Finland |
| 10. | Estonia |
Note. The list of countries above contains only recognized sovereign states. For example, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and some other unrecognized or partially recognized territories are missing.
In conclusion, we note that Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. According to the 2011 census, there are about 900,000 Russian-speaking citizens in the United States. In Europe, there are about 221 million Russian speakers. In addition to the Russian Federation, Russian is widely spoken in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In general, Russian is spoken in many different parts of the world, including Turkey (600,000), Canada (530,000) and even Uruguay (14,000).
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