"Slavic studies (North America), Slavonic studies (Britain and Ireland) or Slavistics (borrowed from Russian \u0441\u043B\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043A\u0430) is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist (from Russian \u0441\u043B\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0442) or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics, a Slavic (AmE) or Slavonic (BrE) scholar."@en .