Russian is stunning, frustrating, shocking but still beautiful and expressive. I am going to outline some benefits of learning the Russian tongue, as well as to demonstrate a couple of interesting facts about this language.

To start, Russian is officially the 8th most spoken language in the world, not including the countries where it is spoken as the second language. The areal of the language comprises all the states of the former USSR (the list is too long) where it is still being widely used. Moreover, in some of them, Russian has retained the status of the official language. For a Russian speaker this fact opens an opportunity to travel and to communicate in these countries quite effortlessly. Take me, for instance; I am a citizen of Uzbekistan and I regard Russian as my native language alongside with Uzbek.

Secondly, it has an impressively abundant literary and cultural heritage which, I think, cannot be conveyed in any other language. Such brilliant Russian authors and philosophers like Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, etc. are justly just/simply second to none writers and it is impossible to accurately interpret their masterpieces in the other world's tongues.** world's other tongues.**This sounds like you mean "the languages of the other world". It's better to say "in the world's other tongues".

5 reasons to learn Russian

Russian is stunning, frustrating, shocking but still beautiful and expressive. I am going to outline some benefits from learnining the Russian tongue as well as to demonstrate a couple of interesting facts about this language.
For a start, Russian is officially the 8th most spoken language in the world, not including the countries, where it is spoken as the second language. The areal of the language comprises all the states of the former USSR (the list is too long) where it is still being widely used. Moreover, in some of them Russian has retained the status of the official language. For a Russian speaker this fact opens an opportunity to travel and to communicate in these countries quite effortlessly. Take me, for instance, I am a citizen of Uzbekistan and I regard Russian as my native language alongside with Uzbek.
Secondly, it has an impressively abundant literary and cultural heritage which, I think, cannot be conveyed in any other language. Such brilliant Russian authors and philisophers like Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, etc. are justly second to none writers and it is impossible to accurately interpret their masterpieces in the other world's tongues.
Furthermore, Russian is a very challenging language due to its vocabulary and grammar. In most cases, it is extremely labour-consuming for a foreigner to master it. However, as soon as you laern it, you will be fairly respected in the previously mentioned countries. If you are keen on "Hard Mode" quests, Russian is your piece of cake.
Next, if you are able to speak Russian, you will instantly understand Ukrainian, Belarus and some of the other Slavic lanuages. You will find it easy to learn and speak these languages which relate with mighty Russian. To prove my point, here in itallki you may find Ukraininans or Russians speaking both of the languages.
Finally yet importantly, owing to the fact that the influence of Russian encompasses the vast territory of the globe, it creates an extremely profitable opportrunity to have business relationships with the Russian speaking countries (the former USSR) what is made up of almost 15 states. It is illustrated by the fact that the economy of these countries is gradually increasing. Within a decade, a tremendous number of foreign companies have established ventures and enterprises in Uzbekistan and the state lacks qualified professionals.
All in all, Russian is a very fantastic and mighty language just like the Russian people. Just give it a go and you won't be disappointed.

Only fairly minor corrections - some maybe keyboard typos.

I was in Ukraine (Odessa) recently and was amused to find that the interpreter was struggling to understand a waitress who was using Ukrainian.