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Originally Posted by Quoth
I see Estonia has now cut funding for teaching Russian.  |
Russian was mandatory in my time as it was the official language of the USSR. Since the end of the latter, Russian has mostly been an elective subject in schools. Younger generations no longer speak it like their parents and grandparents did. My Russian is extremely rusty by now, unfortunately. (Unfortunately because politics and wars notwithstanding, Russian is a language tens of millions of people speak in a neighboring country and so it's still useful to know here).