As it was told before, the Russian language has a vibrant cultural past. It is the language of the famous writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, of the celebrated composer Prokofiev, and of the great Russian tsars of the past.
Today, Russian has a significant global presence. It not only is spoken as a primary language by more than 214 million people around the world, but also serves as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Russian was used throughout the dominance of the USSR in Eastern Europe in a unifying role.
Many provincial dialects of Russian are found throughout Russia, with Moscow’s dialect adopted as the official Russian language. It is reported by Language Helpers that Russian dialects are commonly split into two or three groups of North and South or North, Central and Southern. In the North/South split Moscow lies in the center, while in the North/Center/South divide Moscow lies in the Central dialect zone.
Speaking of English, in the last few decades, English has emerged as the pre-eminent language for international communication. It is spoken by more people around the world than any other language, and is regularly described as a truly ‘global’ language. It is the world's second largest native language, the official language in 70 countries, and English-speaking countries are responsible for about 40% of world's total GNP. English can be at least understood almost everywhere among scholars and educated people, as it is the world media language, and the language of cinema, TV, pop music and the computer world. All over the planet people know many English words, their pronunciation and meaning.
The causes for this universality are very well known and understandable. English first began to spread during the 16th century with British Empire and was strongly reinforced in 20th by USA world domination in economic, political and military aspects and by the huge influence of American movies.
While doing the research, we also found out one interesting thing. I am sure all of you say, or at least heard people saying something like заселфиться, or лайкнуть, постнуть, etc. So we not only use English words in Russian speech, but change them according to the rules of Russian language. So what we found out is that there is a special term for that mix of languages – Runglish, or Ruglish. What is more surprising, is that the term was coined not for describing what teenagers are doing with the language, but as a name for one of the languages aboard the International Space Station. Astronauts from different parts of the world usually know both Russian and English languages, so it is not a problem to mix them up.