Why study Russian language online via skype?

There is a number reasons for learning Russian, here are some of them:

- Russia has been a significant political and cultural centre of the 20th century, not to mention earlier times. At present Russian economy is growing and the number of foreign investments in Russia is increasing.

- Russia has a rich and fascinating culture, which has had great influence on our own view of the world. Russian music:

Rakhmaninov, Chaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofyev, ; Russian literature: Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pasternak; Russian opera Shalyapin, Vishnyevskaya, Khvorostovsky; Russian ballet Plisetskaya, Pavlova, Baryshnikov, Noureyev, Russian theater: Stanislavsky; (to mention just a few names!) have become part of the world's history of arts.

- Russian language is spoken by over 280 million people and it is ranked number five in the number of speakers all over the world (after Chinese, English, Hindi, and Spanish). Russian is also an offical languahe of UN.

- Knoledge of Russian will help you to speak to and understand people living in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other former Soviet republics.