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What are the differences between Ukrainian/Byelorussian and Russian

Hi,I recently came across a post where a lady said she has lived her entire life in Ukraine and doesn't know a word of Ukrainian(she's from Odessa,which I take is a very Russian city...ironic considering its not in E.Ukraine)anyway is there anyone with more knowledge on this.I would imagine it would be necessary for some things courts,business,getting around,tv/radio,politics,education,(most especially this,are there schools that teach solely in Russian.is this legal ?)etc.I also watched a video where people in Belarus where asked to speak in Belarussian and most couldn't think of a word let alone a phrase and another one where the president made news for speaking Belarussian for the first time in 20 years.Is this really possible that there are people who call themselves Belarussians live in Belarus but don't speak the language.if so how strong is the Russian invasion/influence and the general language situation in the above two countries.thanks in advance!

 
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All of this three languages have their origin in Old Slavic. They are different, but because of the fact of being in the same family group they have something similar. And with Bulgarian, Polish and Serbian the same thin. You can also compare Spanish with French. Or to do it between asian languages and etc. But they all are different. This natural to languages to change with time. Those who was interested must now, but typical Russian usually don't know the history of their own modern language. They don't know basic information about neither A. Pushkin nor N. Karamzin. Shoud I say that Russian was created in 19th century? I don't think so. And with the most of Ukrainians is the same situation, the most of them/us don't know the history of Ukrainian language... We all must know our history, what ever where are we from.
 I can give a couple advice about what you need to search in internet about Russian in English or even books in Russian. You can ask me in a private messenger if you will be polite.

I have no particular desire to write here all what I have to say, so you can just try to search something here or somewhere else:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language