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I think the baltic states also should be marked. Almost all male citizens of these countries know Russian, (at least the older generations), because Russian was the language used in the Soviet military All these countries have large Russian speaking minorities. /Aaker — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.227.26.241 (talk • contribs) 11:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

no they should not.it is very dubious, AND local people very often find highlighting of the soviet times in any way very offensive and repulsive and providing such information might be very misleading..for instance people (of older generations) in (especially) Courland (Latvia) and Estonia simply deny any capabaility of conversing with someone in Russian,and i think Latvia for example has got its point across making English a cumpolsory subject in Latvian schools.Lithuanians on the other hand (the older generation) are very proficient in Russian for example they have barely any accent,but since Lithuania succesfully avoided most of the soviet factory construction plans the immigration of russians was insignificant which affects the proficiency of russian among younger Lithuanians significantly.

so what i wanned to say is that it's in any way dubious plus it's misleading in a cultural context(you can't say thatsomeone speaks russian just because he is supposed to be proficient but actually claims that he is not..or something..

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.110.169.107 (talk • contribs) 13:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Sources

The map is now sourced to Ethnologue. If that is out of date, please provide a source for any changes. The map now shows where Russian is official (Russia and de facto Russian-controlled unrecognized territories) and a "working language" (per Ethnologue). The status in Ukraine is fluid, but Russian is regionally official in the east and the bill to de-officiate Russian was never signed into law. We can add another category of "spoken", if people like, but we need some cut-off point since Russia is spoken just about everywhere, including Antarctica. Coloring the whole world green would not make a useful map, and we could get into revert wars over which countries qualify if we do not use a set percentage (say, > 5% or 10% natively). Kwamikagami (talk) 00:14, 1 July 2016 (UTC)