Editing Russian language (section)

== As an international language ==
{{See also|Russophone|List of official languages by institution|Internet in Russian}}

Russian is one of the official languages (or has similar status and interpretation must be provided into Russian) of the following:

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* [[United Nations]]
* [[International Atomic Energy Agency]]
* [[World Health Organization]]
* [[International Civil Aviation Organization]]
* [[UNESCO]]
* [[World Intellectual Property Organization]]
* [[International Telecommunication Union]]
* [[World Meteorological Organization]]
* [[Food and Agriculture Organization]]
* [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]]
* [[International Criminal Court]]
* [[International Olympic Committee]]
* [[Universal Postal Union]]
* [[World Bank]]
* [[Commonwealth of Independent States]]
* [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]
* [[Shanghai Cooperation Organisation]]
* [[Eurasian Economic Community]]
* [[Collective Security Treaty Organization]]
* [[Antarctic Treaty Secretariat]]
* [[International Organization for Standardization]]
* [[International Mathematical Olympiad]]
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The Russian language is also one of two official languages aboard the [[International Space Station]] – [[NASA]] astronauts who serve alongside Russian cosmonauts usually take Russian language courses. This practice goes back to the [[Apollo–Soyuz]] mission, which first flew in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wakata|first=Koichi|author-link=Koichi Wakata|url=https://global.jaxa.jp/article/special/expedition/wakata01_e.html|title=My Long Mission in Space|publisher=[[JAXA]]|quote="The official languages on the ISS are English and Russian, and when I was speaking with the Flight Control Room at JAXA's Tsukuba Space Center during ISS systems and payload operations, I was required to speak in either English or Russian."|access-date=1 June 2024|archive-date=26 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426232353/https://global.jaxa.jp/article/special/expedition/wakata01_e.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In March 2013, Russian was found to be the second-most used language on websites after English. Russian was the language of 5.9% of all websites, slightly ahead of German and far behind English (54.7%). Russian was used not only on 89.8% of [[.ru]] sites, but also on 88.7% of sites with the former Soviet Union domain [[.su]]. Websites in former Soviet Union member states also used high levels of Russian: 79.0% in Ukraine, 86.9% in Belarus, 84.0% in Kazakhstan, 79.6% in Uzbekistan, 75.9% in Kyrgyzstan and 81.8% in Tajikistan. However, Russian was the sixth-most used language on the top 1,000 sites, behind English, Chinese, French, German, and Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|title=Russian is now the second most used language on the web|url=http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/russian_is_now_the_second_most_used_language_on_the_web|work=W3Techs|publisher=Q-Success|access-date=17 June 2013|author=Matthias Gelbmann|date=19 March 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130412034448/http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/russian_is_now_the_second_most_used_language_on_the_web|archive-date=12 April 2013}}</ref>

On 13 October 2023, the [[CIS Council of Heads of State]] signed the Treaty on the Establishment of the [[International Organisation for the Russian Language]] and adopted the Statement on Support and Promotion of the Russian Language as a Language of Interethnic Communication.<ref>{{cite web |title=Совет глав государств СНГ подписал Договор об учреждении Международной организации по русскому языку и принял Заявление о поддержке и продвижении русского языка как языка межнационального общения |url=https://e-cis.info/news/564/112780/ |website=[[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS Internet Portal]] |access-date=6 January 2025 |language=Russian |date=13 October 2023}}</ref>