And on decision by the United Nations Russian, along with English, Chinese, Arabic and some other languages, has the status of an international languages. The Russian alphabet bases on the sound principle, which means that certain graphic symbols or letters serve to denote separate sounds. A combination of letters accepted in the Russian alphabet and their corresponding sounds makes up the Russian script system. According to this system, each letter plays its own role in denoting separate sounds of the language. An established sequence of Russian letters forms a Russian alphabet.
Russian alphabet has a centuries-old history.
Immediately preceding the modern Russian alphabet is the Cyrillic alphabet the symbols of which served prototypes for Russian letters. Calls for Latinization of Russian alphabet have been made many times before. If Russia wants to be part of Europe, it has to switch to the Latin alphabet completely. Both China and Japan, which hardly ever use the Latin alphabet, are keeping pace with the time. Russia has always been cautiously reluctant about spelling reforms.