Thread: Russian has become the second most used language on the internet

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

So I'm curious about the percentage of users on the Russian-language internet who are using Russian as a second language or lingua franca, even though Russian is not their native language. (I'm not counting people like myself who can speak Russian with "clumsy fluency" as a foreign language -- I'm only talking about people who regularly use Russian as an acquired second language.)

I mean to say, how many Uzbek and Kazakh users would prefer to read websites in Uzbek or Kazakh if such sites were widely available -- and how many would prefer to read websites in Russian because they don't speak/read Uzbek or Kazakh sufficiently well?

Have you read the article? The nubmers from the link are clearly for internet users, not for the regular life:

Russian is also the most used language in several countries that belonged to the Soviet Union: 79.0% in Ukraine, 86.9% in Belarus, 84.0% in Kazakhstan, 79.6% in Uzbekistan, 75.9% in Kyrgyzstan and 81.8% in Tajikistan.