Russian is an East Slavic Language. It is the official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many more minor or unrecognised territories. Russian belongs to the family of lndo - European language and is one of the four living members of the East Slavic Languages. Some people say that the Russian language can be hard to learn. This is not really true, learning Russian is no harder than learning other languages. The main difficulty for a lot of people is learning the new grammar structure.