The English-language Russia

Long ago, when I was in school, our first class teacher somehow slid the topic, which is about the year 2000 will be the Russian language of international communication. Something they did not grow together, Russian well enough, in principle, known in major Asian and African tourist centers (at least at the level that vparit some local "artifact").
But it seems that we are still convinced that the Russian is about to become a global common language. And nefig distort gyrus incomprehensible gibberish. I apologize to those who distort by combining into a single "we", but in Ukraine, all about the same.