Question: When did Finland join the Russian Empire?
Answer: 1809

Question: When did Finland leave the Russian Empire?
Answer: 1918

Question: What percent of Finns speak Russian?
Answer: 0.6%

Question: How many Finns speak Russian?
Answer: 33,400

Question: How many Russian-speaking Finns are descended from early immigrants?
Answer: Five thousand

Question: How many Ukrainians speak Russian natively as of 2004?
Answer: 14,400,000

Question: How many Ukrainians speak Russian actively as of 2004?
Answer: 29 million

Question: What percent of Ukraine is fluent in Russian as of 2006?
Answer: 65%

Question: What percent of Ukraine use Russian as their main language as of 2006?
Answer: 38%

Question: What is Russian's legal status in Ukraine?
Answer: minority language, under the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine

Question: What pact contained many Russian-speaking countries?
Answer: Warsaw Pact

Question: Where was Russian schooling mandatory in the 20th century?
Answer: Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, former East Germany and Cuba

Question: Which countries speak other Slavic languages?
Answer: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria

Question: In which European countries do many Russian immigrants live?
Answer: The United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Brazil, Norway, and Austria

Question: How much of Ireland's Russian speakers are Russian citizens?
Answer: 13%

Question: How many people in Ireland speak Russian?
Answer: 21,639

Question: How much of Ireland's Russian speakers are Irish citizens?
Answer: 20%

Question: How much of Ireland's Russian speakers are Latvian citizens?
Answer: 27%

Question: What convention recognizes Russian in Armenia?
Answer: Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Question: How many Armenians speak Russian natively?
Answer: 15,000

Question: How many Armenians speak Russian actively?
Answer: 1 million

Question: What percent of Armenia speaks Russian?
Answer: 30%

Question: What percent of Armenia uses Russian as their main language?
Answer: 2%

Question: How many Georgians speak Russian actively?
Answer: 1.7 million

Question: What convention recognizes Russian in Georgia?
Answer: Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Question: How many Georgians speak Russian natively?
Answer: 130,000

Question: What percent of Georgia is fluent in Russian?
Answer: 27%

Question: What percent of Georgia use Russian as their main language?
Answer: 1%

Question: What is the legal status of Russian in Kazakhstan?
Answer: according to article 7 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan its usage enjoys equal status to that of the Kazakh language in state and local administration

Question: What percent of people in Kazakhstan speak Russian fluently?
Answer: 63%

Question: How many people in Kazakhstan speak Russian natively?
Answer: 4,200,000

Question: How many people in Kazakhstan speak Russian actively?
Answer: 10 million

Question: What percent of people in Kazakhstan use Russian as their main language?
Answer: 46%

Question: Where did Russian explorers first reach North America?
Answer: Alaska

Question: When did Russian explorers first reach North America?
Answer: 1700s

Question: When did the US buy Alaska?
Answer: 1867

Question: What portion of Russian-speaking Americans are ethnic Russians?
Answer: about 25%

Question: What is the term for Russian-speaking people?
Answer: Russophones

Question: When did Apollo-Soyuz fly?
Answer: 1975

Question: For which mission did NASA astronauts first learn Russian?
Answer: Apollo-Soyuz

Question: What math competition has Russian as an official language?
Answer: International Mathematical Olympiad

Question: What are Russian astronauts called?
Answer: cosmonauts

Question: What is the second-most-popular language online as of 2013?
Answer: Russian

Question: What percent of all websites are in English?
Answer: 54.7%

Question: What percent of all websites are in Russian?
Answer: 5.9%

Question: What percent of all .ru websites are in Russian?
Answer: 89.8%

Question: What percent of Ukraine's websites are in Russian?
Answer: 79.0%

Question: What two regions do some linguists divide Russian into?
Answer: "Northern" and "Southern"

Question: What three regions do some linguists divide Russian into?
Answer: Northern, Central (or Middle) and Southern

Question: What distinguishes Russian dialects?
Answer: non-standard features of pronunciation and intonation, vocabulary and grammar

Question: What is okanye?
Answer: pronounce unstressed /o/ clearly

Question: What articles are similar to Bulgarian?
Answer: post-posed definite article -to, -ta, -te

Question: What do some Russian dialects do about vowels?
Answer: absence of vowel reduction

Question: What region of dialects is the Volga River area in?
Answer: Northern Russian

Question: What is pronounced [ɪ] in Moscow's dialect?
Answer: unstressed /e/ and /a/ following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable

Question: What is pronounced [a] in Southern Russian?
Answer: unstressed /e/ and /a/ following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable

Question: What does Southern Russian have a linguistic continuum with?
Answer: modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian (Eastern Polesian)

Question: Who made the first dialectal Russian dictionary?
Answer: Vladimir Dal

Question: In what century was the first dialectal Russian dictionary published?
Answer: 19th

Question: When did Lomonosov study Russian dialects?
Answer: 18th century

Question: When were detailed maps of Russian dialects created?
Answer: turn of the 20th century

Question: How long did it take to compile the Dialectological Atlas of the Russian Language?
Answer: four decades

Question: What did the old letter ⟨ѣ⟩ become?
Answer: ⟨е⟩

Question: What did the old letters ⟨і⟩ and ⟨ѵ⟩ become?
Answer: ⟨и⟩

Question: What did the old letter ⟨ѳ⟩ become?
Answer: ⟨ф⟩

Question: What did the old letter ⟨ѫ⟩ become?
Answer: ⟨у⟩

Question: What did the old letter ⟨ѭ⟩ become?
Answer: ⟨ю⟩

Question: What is 'moroz' a transliteration of?
Answer: мороз

Question: What is 'mysh' a transliteration of?
Answer: мышь

Question: What does 'moroz' mean?
Answer: frost

Question: What font technology has reduced the need for transliteration?
Answer: Unicode character encoding,

Question: What does 'mysh' mean?
Answer: mouse

Question: Who created KOI8-R encoding?
Answer: the Soviet government

Question: What system used CP1251 encoding?
Answer: Microsoft Windows

Question: What systems used IBM866 encoding?
Answer: MS-DOS and OS/2

Question: What encoding did early Macs use?
Answer: ISO/IEC 8859-5

Question: In what years was CP1251 encoding used in most Russian online usage?
Answer: 1995–2005

Question: What organization is the Institute of Russian Language part of?
Answer: Russian Academy of Sciences

Question: What can optional acute accents indicate?
Answer: stress

Question: What is distinguished from 'lock' only by an accent, in Russian?
Answer: castle

Question: What is distinguished from 'this is odd' only by an accent, in Russian?
Answer: this is marvelous

Question: What is distinguished from 'wothwhile' only by an accent, in Russian?
Answer: standing

Question: Who says Russian has 6 vowels?
Answer: St. Petersburg Phonological School

Question: When are Russian vowels written differently?
Answer: depending on whether or not the preceding consonant is palatalized

Question: What dialect is standard Russian based on?
Answer: Moscow dialect

Question: What language does Russian treat hard consonants similar to?
Answer: Irish

Question: What is done to unstressed vowels?
Answer: reduced to near-close vowels or an unclear schwa

Question: What might /kʲ/ be considered?
Answer: a phoneme

Question: What is palatalization?
Answer: the center of the tongue is raised during and after the articulation of the consonant