Do you consider people from your country who cannot speak English to be 'stupid'?

[Salty Ears]

Russian, French, Spanish languages are "lingua franca", so in that countries english not so popular than in others

[Not a Cop]

Russia is surely one of the least English-speaking countries in the world, isn't it?

In the world is quite an overstatement, i think it's not worse than most of other not western countries which were not a british colony.

[Tooting Carmen]

Russian, French, Spanish languages are "lingua franca", so in that countries english not so popular than in others

Precisely.

[Ülev]

No. English is a hard language for a French noble man.

mais oui, c'est vrai

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

No, most people in Argentina dont speak Inglish.
To be fluent in english you have to pay extra money in courses, and not every body has the time and money to have that formation.
high school courses and video games don't do shit for you.

[dududud]

mais oui, c'est vrai

Fromage.

[Wolfdog]

NO

I know some extremely intellectual scientists and professors don't know any languages except their mother tongue.

[Ülev]

Fromage.

Tu envoies une souris acheter du fromage? Sacrébleu!

[Heaven]

Funny thread at these very minutes where UK is having Brexit. We can presume that over the next years, there will be a resistance against English domination.

Last week, Merkel was in Turkey for the opening ceremony of a German language Turkish-German University in Istanbul.
French are traditionally always aggressive against English, French is lingua franca of Catholic world.

Yet English has a strong domination. It is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. It is language of global business, innovation and technology. And this state of things won't change any time soon.

[Arsen_]

Of course to know any foreign language and especially English is always a bonus, but strictly speaking in countries like Russia, Armenia or Ukraine you need not to know English for your everyday life.