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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
Yes, but maybe as an American I only see a certain side. For instance the hotel where I like to stay when I'm there has only one set of letters, then English, and a similar setup on the menu of the little restaurant downstairs. Certainly they're Cyrillic letters, but what the hell do I know if they're Russian or Ukrainian? I'll look more closely next time.
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They are in Russian of course, because it's the most understandable language of the former Soviet Union in the world. Nobody speaks the ancient Russian (known as the Ukrainian language) anywhere, including the Ukraine (the Ukrainian president prefers to speak Russian). Yes, they officially try to enforce it, but they always fail. I don't want to say that ancient Russian is bad. Actually it sounds very melodic (as a Russian I do understand about 90% of the Ukrainian language):
But it's just outdated for centuries and nobody on planet Earth speaks it. According to Wikipedia Russian is
12th most spoken language even in the USA.
A former United States National Security Advisor:
Milla Jovovich (was born in Kiev):
And others:
As you can see, nobody of them speak ancient Russian (Ukrainian). They speak the modern Russian instead.