This method of calculating record ownership differs. from the method a U.S. domestic issuer is permitted to. use in its determination of the number of record owners. for purposes of Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, which. counts only record owners and not beneficial owners. holding securities in street name.
The closest relatives of Russian are Ukrainian and Belarussian, which you will be able to understand on a basic level after learning Russian. Knowing Russian will make it easier for you to speak any other Slavic language, eg. Polish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or Slovene.
Russian is primarily spoken in the Russian Federation and by older people in the other countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, as well as in Eastern Europe. According to the 2010 census, there were 137 million speakers of Russian in the Russian Federation, and 166 million worldwide (Ethnologue).