Андрей Зализняк. История русского языка

What is the origin of the word "Rus"? Is it true that the modern Russian literary language arose from the fusion of Great Russian colloquial speech and Church Slavonic, which descends from Old Bulgarian? What dialects formed the basis of modern Russian speech? When and why did "okanye" and "akanye" emerge in our language? What are the similarities and differences between Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian? Andrey Zaliznyak, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philology, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Moscow State University, answers all these questions. Broadcast from May 30, 2014. Host: Andrey Mozzhukhin.