Classification. Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family.It is a lineal [citation needed] descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus’, a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries.

Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossija) is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia.

Why are Russian-speaking Jews more vocal in their support for Israel than, say, their English-speaking counterparts? First of all, Russian-speaking Jews in the Diaspora were torn away from Jewish tradition and religion for an extended period.

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Can you believe this is my first ever blog post about Russian? Very timely with how much it’s in the news lately, David, who has his own travel blog where he documents his and and his Russian teenfriend’s travel adventures, wrote to me with some encouraging words about this language.