Not all Slavs are Russians

[Alina Israeli]

>Russian is passe and old hat and all that.  The other Slavic
>languages appear to students as new and fresh and exocic.

I would like to point out that not all Russians are Slavs, that's why the
citizens of Russia are called "rossijane", and there are many "fresh and
exotic" languages out there: itel'menskij, mansijskij, udmurtskij and many,
many, many others.

Alina Israeli