Things You'll Only See In Russia

The Russian Language

Russian is the official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Over 260 million people around the world identify Russian as their first language. This is a unique language that has no "definite" or "indefinite" articles, meaning that they don't use articles such as the English "the" or "an" which seems impossible to those who don't speak the language. 

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