The future for recycling looks even worse. As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and assorted plastics, the costs rise sharply while the environmental benefits decline and sometimes vanish.
Definition of Slavic. : a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Serbian and Croatian, Slovene, Russian, and Ukrainian â see indo-european languages table.
Russian is one of several Slavic languages that use a form of the Cyrillic. alphabet (others include Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and. Ukrainian). There are minor variations in the forms of Cyrillic used in the Slavic. languages; the alphabet shown here is that used in modern Russian. Pre-1917. Russian documents also used the characters i and v, equivalent to modern w, the. character 'b, equivalent to modern e; and e, equivalent to modern d).