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Both French and Russian have sounds that are not found in English, so an English speaker will have to learn how to pronounce these sounds. It is difficult for an English speaker to learn how to pronounce either language correctly, and they will most likely have an accent.
Both French and Russian have grammatical features that are difficult for an English speaker. These include: different word order, the use of grammatical gender, and remebering to decline adjectives, and different patterns of verb conjugation.
However, Russian has more features that will be alien to an English speaker, such as: perfective verbs, the Cyrillic alphabet, three grammatical genders (French has only two), and grammatical case for nouns and adjectives. The Russian stress pattern is harder to learn than French and the rules of Russian spelling are more complicated than those of French.
French also has a great many words of vocabulary that it shares with English, making this aspect a little easer for English speakers. Russian has fewer of these words.
For these reasons, the average English speaker will probably find French easier to learn than Russian. But that isn't necessarily true of all English speakers. Somebody who already speaks a langauge closely related to Russian - Polish or Ukranian for example - is likely to find Russian easier.
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