Russian is spoken in many countries outside of Russia.
My former girlfriend is from Estonia and speaks Russian natively.
I have colleagues who are Ukrainian and speak Russian primarily.
My former girlfriend is from Estonia and speaks Russian natively.
I have colleagues who are Ukrainian and speak Russian primarily.
End result? People learned English.
Lots of people in Moldova speak Russian bilingual too. Russian is commonly spoken in Kazakhstan - even Russian courses in the universities.
Overall for many Russian is a decent choice to have a produce localized to or search for information in general. Like in your case - compare it to Estonian where the native speakers are fewer than 1.5 million (even, when you include all age groups) - a lot smaller market, harder to localize due to lack of translators, etc.