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  1. Member of the Slavonic branch of the
  2. Indo-European language family. The people of
  3. Russia proper refer to it as Great Russian,
  4. in contrast with Ukrainian (which they call
  5. Little Russian) and the language of
  6. Byelorussia (White Russian). It is written in
  7. the Cyrillic alphabet and is the standard
  8. means of communication throughout the USSR.
  9.