Russian has been strongly influenced by Old Church Slavonic and—since the 18th-century westernizing policies of Tsar Peter I the Great —by the languages of western Europe, from which it has borrowed many words. The 19th-century poet Aleksandr Pushkin had a very great influence on the subsequent development of the language.

Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yaz'ik) is a Slavic language. It is the main language spoken in Russia. It is also spoken by many people in other parts of the former Soviet Union, such as in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan and Estonia ...

Russian is an Ukranian dialect 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, [34 ...

Russian ( s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: Russians ( русские, russkiye ), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries. Rossiyane ( россияне ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity. Russophone, Russian-speaking ...

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