English Replaces Russian as Top Foreign Language of Study in Ex-Soviet Georgia: Twenty years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, 90 percent of the people in the 12 new countries that surrounded Russia, Belarus and Ukraine spoke Russian. By the end of this decade, linguists say, that portion could fall to 10 percent.
The decline of Russian is particularly sharp in Georgia.
Packed with eight-year-olds, a third-grade English class at a government school in northern Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, offers a noisy insight into the country’s linguistic future.
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