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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RussiansRussians - Wikipedia

    The term Russians may refer to the largest ethnic group in Russia native to Eastern Europe, but is may also denote the people of the multi-ethnic Russian state. The Russian word for the former meaning is русские ( russkiye ), for the second meaning it is россияне ( rossiyane ).

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    Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.

  3. Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left Russia, including me and my BBC Russian colleagues. But for the majority who have stayed in Russia, life outwardly is pretty much the same as it...

  4. Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity, is a multinational state, and is home to over 190 ethnic groups nationwide. According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.

  5. 4 days ago · Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union ), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

  6. Russians, many of whom migrated to the Belorussian S.S.R. in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, form the second largest ethnic group, accounting for roughly one-tenth of the population. Most of the remainder are Poles and Ukrainians, with much smaller numbers of Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians, and…. Read More.

  7. Mar 14, 2022 · Russians are generally quite skeptical of any government. According to research by the independent Levada Center last month , although Putin’s approval rating is 71 percent, the share of respondents who named him as someone they trust was only 32 percent (down from 59 percent in November 2017).

  8. Jun 3, 2023 · Hundreds of thousands of Russians are estimated to have left their country since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We look at who they are, where they are going, and why they are...

  9. Jun 13, 2024 · One of Russia's top security officials called on Thursday for Russians to mobilise to inflict "maximum harm" on Western societies and infrastructure as payback for increasingly tough...

  10. Aug 9, 2018 · Russian Culture, Customs, and Traditions. Russian folk art and crafts at a market. The Russian state covers nearly about 6,612,100 square miles and is home to more than 144.5 million people.