what is the language called in russia?
Russian Language
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 The Cyrillic script was introduced in Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the late 1930s , replacing the Latin script that had been used since the October Revolution . After 1939 , materials published in Persian in the Persian alphabet were banned from the country . [ 11 ] The alphabet below was supplemented by the letters Щ and Ы in 1952 . 

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 In a Russification drive in the 1840s , Nicholas I prohibited the use of Belarusian language in public schools , campaigned against Belarusian publications and tried to pressure those who had converted to Catholicism under the Poles to reconvert to the Orthodox faith . In 1863 , economic and cultural pressure exploded into a revolt , led by Kalinowski . After the failed revolt , the Russian government reintroduced the use of Cyrillic to Belarusian in 1864 and no documents in Belarusian were permitted by Russian government until 1905 . 

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 Ingush language ( historically ) , later replaced in the 17th century by Arabic and by the Cyrillic script in modern times . 

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 Russian literature specialist Priscilla Meyer maintains in her book How the Russians Read the French , that both La Peau de Chagrin and Pere Goriot were extensively paralleled , subverted and inverted , by Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment . 

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 Traditionally , Russian speakers read newspapers and listen to radio more often than Hebrew speakers . 
