Interview with Andrey Chuzhakin

Andrey Chuzhakin, Professor of Linguistic University compared Russia’s past and present linguistic positions.

“Now, more then ever, people, who don’t master a foreign language are facing a disadvantage in Russian society. On the contrary Russian as a foreign language reached its heights of popularity in the 1980s, with Gorbachev and Perestroyka. Now Russian shares the 7-8 place in the rating of world languages with Portuguese, back then it was the third,” Chuzhakin said.