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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
Your question shows that you are unfamiliar with both Russian and other slavic languages.
To add to Anixx's answer:
Think:
misliet - misliet - misliec - misliti - misliti - mislityi - mislyati - dumat
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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
You have just picked Russian synonyms that are not related to the words in the other Slavic languages that you picked. You can pick other synonyms.
Think: мыслить (myslit')
I have: я имею (ya imeyu)
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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
It's totally ok to compare and contrast different languages based on the factors other than their genetic affinity. Even though you'd hardly find a serious linguist questioning the status of Russian ...
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