Friday, March 2, 2007

Russian facts

  • There are approximately 195 million native Russians living in the world. That is more than the number of native speakers of German, French, Arabic, Korean, or Japanese!
  • Russian is the third most widely spoken language in Europe.
  • In total there are well over 300 million people in the world speaking Russian as their first or second language.
  • Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
  • More scientific material is printed in Russian than in any other language in the world with the exception of English.
(include in the project: probably)

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