to be a compulsory subject; the entire people's republic of china studied it according to covenant maodzedunaration still remembers, at a minimum, cheers, comrade, friend. this fall, 12th-grader diana won the all-china russian language competition, and together with her classmates she is now preparing for final exams, like our unified state exam. the guys decided to take russian in order to enter russian universities or continue to study the great and mighty in their homeland. good luck with exams. as they say in russia, don't worry.