Russian is one of the most widespread languages in the world
And the official language in the four countries!
The total number of Russian-speaking people in the world exceeds 250 million and, for 155 million of them, Russian is their native language. It is an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and is also one of the six working languages of the United Nations.
Russian is also the eighth language in the world in terms of the number of its speakers.