Thread: Are native Russian speakers 'language snobs' or tolerant?

Originally Posted by Ramil

That depends on the point of view. If we consider all the former Ex-USSR republic as 'foreign' countries then yes, the situation has deteriorated rather dramatically, but if we only count the countries that were 'foreign' some 20 years ago then I think that the situation is the same.

Of course it became much worse everywhere. Russian stopped being taught in many countries and the number of students of Russian has decreased many times since that.