Features of the Russian language Russian. Origins and features. Russian belongs to the group of East Slavic languages. And it is part of the Indo-European language family. Being the national language of the Russian Federation, it doesn’t unite only people within a given territory, but also many peoples and nations beyond. Russian is one of the 6th official and working languages to the UN, as well as international communication language for such countries Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia and so on. Representatives of the Russian-speaking diaspora are widely represented in Eastern Europe, Germany, Central Asia, the USA, Canada, etc. Formation Formation of Russian stemmed on the basis of the long interaction of various East Slavic dialects, which are located on the Great Rus, and also Church Slavonic, the origin of which is associated with the adaptation of the first Christian books. Division into dialects in Russian occurred in the XV century in the European part of Russia – the language was divided into southern (Akan’e) and Northern (okan’e) dialect. Also, a number of middle Russian dialects were formed, the characteristic of them was Moscow, which is now a classic Russian. Language of borrowing Russian language absorbed a considerable number of borrowings. The words of Greek, Turkic, Polish, Latin, German, Romanesque, etc.origin are an integral part of the everyday life of the Russian-speaking population. Today main stream borrowing goes from the English, it begun in the XIX century and intensified in the first half of XX. This prosses is most active, so, for example, English borrowings replace the previous borrowed words from the French and German languages (English "боулинг" replaced the German "кегельбан", and "лобстер" -French "омар"). However, despite the large number of borrowings, the Russian language is also developing independently and brings its contribution to the replenishment of internationalism. The most famous of them are balalaika, dacha, vodka, perestroika, grandmother, taiga, Tsar, Sputnik, etc. A significant role in the formation and transformation of the Russian language at the time played such literary figures as G. R. Derzhavin, A. N. Radishchev, A. P. Sumarokov, D. I. Fonvizin, N. M. Karamzin, A. S. Pushkin, M. Y. Lermontov and N. In. Gogol.