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The language of Pushkin and Lermontov, Turgenev and Tolstoy, Mayakovsky and Tsvetaeva – the Russian language - is very beautiful in its form and content. The Russian language is incredibly flexible, lively and beautiful. In the days of doubt, in the days of painful reflection on the fate of my country - you're one of my support and dependence, the great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Ivan Turgenev In the days of doubt, in the days of painful reflection on the fate of my country - you're one of my support and dependence, the great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Ivan Turgenev

The Russian language is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. It belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages.

Russian has many relative languages. Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Polish, Serbian are among them. These languages have much in common. Russians easily understand Belarusian and Ukrainian and also conversely. The others are harder to understand though they are connected with pronunciation and accent in some way. If you were to write down phrases, for example, in Bulgarian then it will be possible to see more in common with its Russian equivalent.

The Russian language is primarily spoken in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR.

During the Soviet period, the policy toward the languages of the various other ethnic groups fluctuated in practice. Though each of the constituent republics had its own official language, the unifying role and superior status was reserved for Russian, although it was declared the official language only in Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991, several of the newly independent states have encouraged their native languages, which has partly reversed the privileged status of Russian, though its role as the language of post-Soviet national discourse throughout the region has continued.

The feature of Russian is that it uses Cyrillic. So the Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters. It contains 10 vowels and 23 consonants. When compared with the Latin alphabet which has only 6 vowels, by the amount of vowels makes Russian language melodious. The rules of reading are quite simple because all the letters are usually read. There are only few exceptions from the reading rules. Probably the hard sign and the soft sign are the most unusual letters in the alphabet. They don’t carry any sound themselves but they define the pronunciation of the letter standing before them in the word. The Russian alphabet

The Russian language has the changing word order in sentences. It often surprises those who learn Russian. Quite often the meaning doesn’t change in this situation. Anyway in Russia there is the word order considered to be standard. It requires first using of subject and second using of predicate and other members of the sentence. Peculiarities of the Russian language Any other order is called a return one. But it can’t be considered as a mistake. Besides, not any words in a sentence can be removed. Removing some of them also requires removing the words connected with them.

Russian has its official form. It’s considered to be the right one. It is called The Russian Literature Language. You will hear it if you watch Russian news. The dictionaries of The Russian Literature Language are compounded. The most famous of them are dictionaries by Dal and Ozhegov. There are many dialects of the language.

Some people say that the Russian language can be hard to learn. This is not really true. Learning Russian is no harder than learning other languages. The main difficulty for a lot of people is learning the new grammar structure. If you have learnt other languages before you will already be familiar with some of these grammar concepts, such as gender and cases. In fact, there are many things that make Russian easier to learn than other languages. The key is to use these things to your advantage. Here are some things that make Russian easier. 1. Once you learn the alphabet, you can pronounce almost all words quite accurately. With Russian the pronunciation is normally quite clear from the written form of the word. 2. Russian does not use complicated sentence structures like English. You can normally say exactly what you want with just a few words. For example, in English to be polite we would say something like “could you pass me the salt, please”, however in Russian they would say something like “give the salt, please”. Speaking so directly may even feel unusual for an English speaker, however it is perfectly normal, just add the word ‘please’ to be polite. This makes it easy to say what you want in Russian, and it will probably be correct. Less words also makes listening to people easier, as you can just pick out the important words. 3. Russian uses the case system. Instead of having a strict sentence word order like in English, you just need to change the ends of the nouns. This makes Russian a very expressive language, because you can emphasize a point by changing the order of the words in a sentence. It also helps you understand what people are trying to say. 4. Russian does not use articles. (Like “a” and “the”) 5. Russian has fewer tenses than English. Russian does not bother with the difference between “I was running”, “I had been running”, etc.

I’m a citizen of the Russian Federation. I’m very proud of it. Russia gave the world Pushkin and Lermontov, Chaikovsky and Pakhmutova, Levitan and Repin, Lomonosov and Mendeleev, Korolyov and Sakharov, Nikulin and Popov, Vysotsky and Okudzhava, Zhukov and Lebed, thousands of poets, writers, composers, scientists, military men, sportsmen and sportswomen, actors and actresses, singers and statesmen. All of them are the pride of the nation because they did their best to glorify Russia and the Russian language.