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Should the transliteration scheme used here be changed to the GOST 7.79 (2002) standard? The Romanization of Russian page states that is the official standard of the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Nicole21532 (talk) 17:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes, but since this is the English Wikipedia, what difference does it make which standard is official in Russia? In absence of one official transliteration standard in the English-speaking countries, we use one that's arguably the most common (BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian). Such approach is consistent with the overall Wikipedia philosophy of using the names/titles/spelling variations/romanization systems most common in the English language.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 17, 2012; 17:33 (UTC)

The map

I'm to delete the map "russian language in eurasia" because it contains incorrect information. It shows russian as minority language in plenty of regions, in which russian is actually native for absolute majority. 94.180.30.214 (talk) 14:47, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Number L2 speakers

We need a new source for the number of L2 speakers. I deleted the Ethnologue figure, which was obviously wrong: They say there are 137M L1 (2010 census) and 110M L2 speakers in Russia, a country of 143M people. Perhaps this is a figure inherited from the USSR, and copied over as if Russia were the same thing? If that's the case, it's badly outdated anyway. (No date is given.) — kwami (talk) 18:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

the Russian Federation is down to 143M people?? That's quite a reduction, even taking into account the areas lost to independence from the USSR days.HammerFilmFan (talk) 13:57, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Russian intonations (From IK-1 to IK-7)

I think there should be a new article on the Russian intonation system, from IK-1 to IK-7. Komitsuki (talk) 02:49, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Russian cases

I've started to add an explanation of Russian noun cases. I've just added a basic overview thus far, so feel free to add and elaborate. I've referenced the website Master Russian, a well established and (in my experience) reliable Russian language website. U65945 (talk) 21:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by U65945 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 31 March 2015 (UTC)