Traveling to a new country can be an exciting and daunting experience. To help our volunteers with their trip to Belarus we’ve put together this little information sheet on basic Russian words and phrases.
Fact: Russian and Belarusian are the official languages of Belarus, with Russian being the most commonly spoken. Both Russian and Belarusian use the Cyrillic alphabet which has 33 letters. That's 7 more letters than the English alphabet.
Fact: Russian and Belarusian are the official languages of Belarus, with Russian being the most commonly spoken. Both Russian and Belarusian use the Cyrillic alphabet which has 33 letters. That's 7 more letters than the English alphabet.