Abstract
At present the language situation, formed in the former USSR, enable to divide the country
into two groups, the situations in which differ from each other radically. In one group the Russian
language is widely presented and is practically used as the second language. It is the language of
majority population – Ukraine, Byelorussia and Kazakhstan. In the second group all the remaining
countries of former USSR, the Russian language is not practically used, though in the very group
one can distinguish another sub-group of countries, in which the population is aspiring to learn
Russian only because of economic reasons.