Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family. It is a descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus', a loose conglomerate of East Slavictribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries. From the point

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Feudal divisions and conflicts, and other obstacles to the exchange of goods and ideas that ancient Russian principalities before and especially during Mongol rule, strengthened dialectal

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In 2010, there were 259.8 million speakers of Russian in the world: in Russia – 137.5 million, in the CISand Baltic countries – 93.7 million, in Eastern

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Russian is one of the official languages (or has similar status and interpretation must be provided into Russian) of the following:
• United Nations

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There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian, and a moderate degree of it across all modern Slavic languages, at least at the conversational level.

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• Balachka, a dialect spoken in Krasnodar region, Don, Kuban, and Terek, brought by relocated Cossacksin 1793 and is based on the southwest Ukrainian dialect. During the Russification of the aforementioned regions in the 1920s to 1950s, it was replaced by the Russian

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Russian is a rather homogeneous language, in dialectal variation, due to the early political centralization under Moscow's rule, compulsory education, mass migration from rural to urban areas in the 20th century, and other factors. The standard language is used

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