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  nativename русский язык ''russkiy yazyk''
  states Russia , former Soviet republics, former Warsaw Pact -member states, Israel , Mongolia , and Southeast Asia
  speakers primary language: about 145 million<br>secondary language: 110 million (1999 WA, 2000 WCD)
  rank 8 (native)
  familycolor Indo-European
  fam2 Balto-Slavic
  fam3 Slavic
  fam4 East Slavic
  script Cyrillic Alphabet
  nation Russia , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , United Nations , Crimea , Abkhazia , Transnistria
  agency Russian Academy Of Sciences


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