They are both Slavic languages, having developed from Proto-Slavic and Proto-Balto-Slavic. They are cousin languages, and are part of groups that include many other languages from the same area.
The closest language to Russian is probably either Ukranian, Belarus, Bulgarian, or Serbian. Ukrainian, Belarussian, and Rusyn (arguably a dialect) are the closest languages, linguistically speaking, to Russian. They are East Slavic languages. Other Slavic languages are Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Bosnian.
The Austro-Serbian Alliance was made to prevent Russia from gaining control of Serbia. It is similar to the Dual Alliance because they were both made with Russian protection in mind.
In Russian: это для меня китайская грамота.
The native language of Milan Stanković is Serbian.
russian.
Serbian language.
In modern Russian language the phrase "little lion" can have a similar meaning in its language. Transliterated it would small lion or "malyenkij lyev."
The name of the alphabet that Russian uses is the Cyrillic Alphabet. It should be noted that many other languages also use the Cyrillic alphabet, including but not limited to: Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Serbian
Serbian
pobeda
In russian it means trouble maker
The Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, and Carpatho-Russian churches