In Turkmenistan, Russian lost its status as the official lingua franca in 1996. [52] Among 12% [54] of the population who grew up in the Soviet era can speak Russian, other generations of citizens that do not have any knowledge of Russian. Primary and secondary education by Russian is almost non-existent. [73] Nevertheless, the Turkmen state press and newspaper Neytralny Turkmenistan regularly publish material version in Russian-language, and there are schools like Joint Turkmen-Russian Secondary School. [ citation needed] Drag queen Courtney Act reveals thereason she was 'so grumpy' behind the scenes on The Masked Singer Australia: 'It takes all the fun out of it'

Ben Cohen's ex-wife Abby gives an insight into 'much needed holiday' with her twin daughters and new partner Dave after all clear from bowel cancer In Lithuania, Russian has no official or legal status, but the use of the language has some presence in certain areas. A large part of the population, especially the older generations, can speak Russian as a foreign language. [60] However, English has replaced Russian as lingua franca in Lithuania and around 80% of young people speak English as their first foreign language. [61] In contrast to the other two Baltic states, Lithuania has a relatively small Russian-speaking minority (5.0% as of 2008). [62] It's not my problem!': James Haskell tells Chloe Madeley to 'go speak to a therapist' after she admitted his snaps with bikini-clad girls 'embarrassed' herHeidi Klum tantalisingly reveals just PART of her Halloween look after weeks of speculation... so what WILL the queen of the costumes dress as? Esperanto has some words of Russian and Slavic origin and some features of its grammar could be derived from Russian. [91] In the 20th century, Russian was a mandatory language taught in the schools of the members of the old Warsaw Pact and in other countries that used to be satellites of the USSR. According to the Eurobarometer 2005 survey, [68] fluency in Russian remains fairly high (20–40%) in some countries, in particular those where the people speak a Slavic language and thereby have an edge in learning Russian [ further explanation needed] (namely, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria). [ citation needed] British woman trapped in Gaza says she was sent a sad face emoji by Foreign Office as she pleaded for help escaping warzone The snaps that confirmed Milo Ventimiglia's marriage! This Is Us actor and his girlfriend Jarah Mariano were seen wearing wedding bands after 'secretly tying the knot'

Russian is a rather homogeneous language, in dialectal variation, due to the early political centralization under Moscow's rule, compulsory education, mass migration from rural to urban areas in the 20th century, and other factors. The standard language is used in written and spoken form almost everywhere in the country, from Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg in the West to Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the East, the enormous distance between notwithstanding. [ citation needed] In Moldova, Russian is considered to be the language of inter-ethnic communication under a Soviet-era law. [52] 50% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 19% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. [53] Madonna keeps her health up with Barcelona bike ride... ONE WEEK after revealing she felt UNWELL onstage following health crisis Matthew Perry's ex Molly Hurwitz 'wishes' Friends star had not 'thrown away' their relationship by messaging a 19-YEAR-OLD girl on Raya

Kim and Khloe Kardashian dress up in plaid mini skirts as Bratz dolls for Halloween... after Kylie Jenner collaborated with the toy brand Main article: Geographical distribution of Russian speakers Hemisphere view of countries where Russian is an official language and countries where it is spoken as a first or second language by at least 30% of the population but is not an official language Competence of Russian in countries of the former Soviet Union (except Russia), 2004

King Charles expresses 'sorrow and regret' over Britain's colonial past - but stops short of a full apology during state visit to Kenya Meanwhile, Leeds-based bar owner Arc Inspirations also confirmed it would stop serving Russian vodka. Terrifying horror film is confirmed for a sequel with lead actress returning after viewers labelled first movie as a 'masterpiece' and 'one of the best of all time'This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Christine McGuiness puts on a leggy display in a purple gown with a thigh high split as she attends The Disability Sports Awards in Leeds Baywatch blonde Donna D'Errico, 55, bares cleavage in sultry Halloween look as she BLASTS 'women haters' adding they can 'kiss my a**' Gostperevod.com - Official English translations of GOST standards and regulations Russian GOST standards in English translations | EN version In the Southern Russian dialects, instances of unstressed /e/ and /a/ following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to [ɪ] (as occurs in the Moscow dialect), being instead pronounced [a] in such positions (e.g. несл и is pronounced [nʲaˈslʲi], not [nʲɪsˈlʲi]) – this is called yakanye ( яканье). [85] [86] Consonants include a fricative /ɣ/, a semivowel /w⁓u̯/ and /x⁓xv⁓xw/, whereas the Standard and Northern dialects have the consonants /ɡ/, /v/, and final /l/ and /f/, respectively. [85] The morphology features a palatalized final /tʲ/ in 3rd person forms of verbs (this is unpalatalized in the Standard and Northern dialects). [85] [87] Some of these features such as akanye and yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited /ɡ/, a semivowel /w⁓u̯/ and palatalized final /tʲ/ in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian (Eastern Polesian), indicating a linguistic continuum. [ citation needed]

Israel says it has killed 'dozens of terrorists' during 'fierce' fighting 'deep' inside Gaza as soldiers scour streets for gunmen amid raging battles in bid to free hostages from Hamas' tunnel network Creation of certification systems in Russia is provided by the Federal Law no. 184-ФЗ "On Technical Regulation" Evaluating the product's conformity to requirements of laws, standards, technical regulations and other kinds of normative acts appears to be one of the most important possibilities of providing safety of different kinds of products for humans, environment and the state. The Northern Russian dialects and those spoken along the Volga River typically pronounce unstressed /o/ clearly, a phenomenon called okanye ( оканье). [85] Besides the absence of vowel reduction, some dialects have high or diphthongal /e⁓i̯ɛ/ in place of Proto-Slavic* ě and /o⁓u̯ɔ/ in stressed closed syllables (as in Ukrainian) instead of Standard Russian /e/ and /o/. [85] Another Northern dialectal morphological feature is a post-posed definite article -to, -ta, -te similarly to that existing in Bulgarian and Macedonian. [85]

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