Russian is a Slavic language this is the 8th maximum extensively spoken language withinside the world, with over 260 million speakers. It is the authentic language of the Russian Federation and is one of the six authentic languages of the United Nations.

 Russian is written withinside the Cyrillic alphabet and has a complicated grammar system, with many inflectional paperwork for nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The vocabulary of Russian has been closely motivated via way of means of German, French, and Latin, and the language has a wealthy literary tradition, with well-known works via way of means of writers which include Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov.

 In addition to being spoken as a primary language in Russia, Russian is likewise extensively spoken in different international locations of the previous Soviet Union, such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, and is taken into consideration an crucial language for global conversation and commercial enterprise in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.