I don't know about that. Sure, Russian is completly incomprehensible but at least it is a Indo-European language. Yep, I think that too. I think that Russian alfbet creates illusion that it would be difficult compared to Finnish which uses same alfabet. Still Russian has few charasteristics odd to Indo-Europeans since it have incorporated some finnic (and others non-IE too) elements but basically consept is common with other IE-languages.