English is the international language. There is severe pressure on people living around the world to learn the English language. Native English speakers have a choice of which language they want to learn, if they want to learn one at all. There is a lot of Anti-Russian propaganda around that pushes people away from the Russian language. The Russian language is also very hard to learn and many English speakers think that it sounds ugly.

I, of course, am not one of these people. It is unfortunate that people do not see the beauty of the Russian language, country and culture.