waxwing wrote:
Could we make a list of how much Russian is spoken, and how it's perceived, in each of the ex-Soviet states?
i second that and i'll add eastern europe countries))

i've been to prague and russian was pretty helpful but i guess this has to do with the similarities between czech and russian languages. when i was in budapest though, the only persons who were speaking a bit of russians were the elder.

does anyone know about poland?