The following languages are related to Russian:
The closest languages are Ukranian and Belorussian. Russians can easily understand the two languages despite lexical and grammatical differences.
Slavic.
Belarusian is considered to be the closest language to Ukrainian due to their shared East Slavic roots and historical connections. However, Russian also shares some similarities with Ukrainian but to a lesser extent.
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.
Russian is a Cyrillic language.
No, Russian is not a Latin language. Latin is a member of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, while Russian is a Slavic language belonging to the Slavic branch.
They are both Slavic languages and use the same alphabet, Cyrillic, which helps a lot in understanding words. Also Bulgarian is the closest language to old church slavonic, now extinct, from which a lot of the Russian language is sourced from. As an estimate, probably about 80 per cent of words in Bulgarian also exist in Russian. In the rush to independence and during the Turkish occupation Bulgaria incorporated many Russian words into their language and bought the language even closer to Russian. The grammar and pronouncation is totally different in both languages so it is almost impossible for them to understand each other. Bulgarian pronouncation is clear and sharp, but Russian is softly spoken.
The official language spoken in Russia is Russian. It is the most widely spoken language in the country and is used in government, education, media, and daily communication.
Russian is in the Balto-Slavic language family.
Russian is part of the East Slavic branch of the Slavic language family. It is closely related to languages like Ukrainian and Belarusian.
Russian
The Russian immigrants spoke Russian.
Dictionary of the Russian Language - Ozhegov - was created in 1949.
Yes, Russian is an Indo-European language belonging to the Slavic family.