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Learn Russian Abroad - Why Learn Russian in the 21st Century?

Russian Language Destinations Abroad

Russian Today

• The Russian Language is a means of international communication between nations of the Russian Federation and the CIS (Community of Independent States – former Soviet Republics).
• Russian is one of the six official and working languages of the UN (United Nations).
• Russia’s openness has, within the last fifteen years, led to the consolidation of its economical, political and cultural ties with Europe, the USA and Asia. Russia is quickly integrating into the world economy.
• Many world-famous literary masterpieces were created by Russian writers and poets: Griboyedov, Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Yesenin, Akhmatova and others.
• The Russian Language helps to uncover the mysteries of the Russian soul.
• Quality Russian language courses for foreign students are available not only in Russia but in almost all the countries that belonged to the Soviet Union in the past.

Russian belongs to the Eastern-Slavonic group of languages included in the Indo-European linguistic family. Today’s written script has existed since 1918, but goes back to the original Cyrillic alphabet. It contains 33 letters, 21 of which transmit consonant sounds, 6 – vowel sounds, and 4 - combinations of [j] and a vowel sound. The Cyrillic alphabet was created in the 9th century based on the Greek written language with additional letters.

Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations and lingua franca in all former Soviet Republics and much of Eastern Europe. From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific, knowledge of Russian is an important asset.