It's based on the Cyrillic language which is very similar to the latin alphabet. Some of the letters are weird because there's extra letters and some vowels and consonants sound different but yeah :P
I love the sound of french:) I'd like to know it too but it kills me a little every time I try to learn the oral work. I would love to know Russian as well
Russian is actually relatively easy to learn. A lot of the words are similar to english and the grammar etc. is very similar.