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Russian (русский язык, Russkij jazyk) is the East Slavic language of Indo-European language family.
Its closest relatives are Ukrainian and Belarusian (also in the East Slavic group). In many places in Ukraine and Belarus, these languages are spoken interchangeably. The next closest relatives to Russian are the West Slavic languages, especially Polish and Slovak and then the South Slavic languages (Bulgarian).
The modern Russian alphabet is a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet and contains 33 letters.
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