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Geneflow between Asian minority groups and Russians contributed to the overall pattern of genome diversity across the different ethno-linguistic groups of Russia. [13] [14] The Russian gene pool, even taking into account contacts with Asians, is a typical European one. It lacks the Mongoloid contribution.
The 1979 census showed that only one third of ethnic Russians spoke the Ukrainian language fluently. [6] In 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued the decree on the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. This action increased the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine by almost a million ...
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity.It is a multinational state and home to over 190 ethnic groups countrywide. 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%.
In 2006, there were approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent, [19] giving Canada the third-largest Ukrainian population worldwide, behind Ukraine and Russia. Significant Ukrainian diaspora communities also exist in Poland, the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Argentina.
Russian is the fifth-most used language on the Internet, [101] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station, [102] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. [100] Russia is a multilingual nation; approximately 100–150 minority languages are spoken across the country.
Own work, data taken from Results of the All-Russian Population Census 2020 page (Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года) on the Russian census website using Volume 5, Table 8 titled Population of the most numerous nationalities by age group and sex (Население наиболее ...
According to the 2001 census, there are 87,119 Ukrainians living in the city of St Petersburg, where they constitute the largest non-Russian ethnic group. [37] The former mayor, Valentina Matviyenko (née Tyutina), was born in Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine and is of Ukrainian ethnicity. [verification needed]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, -off was a common transliteration of -ov for Russian family names in foreign languages such as French and German (like for the Smirnoff and the Davidoff brands). Surnames of Ukrainian and Belarusian origin use the suffixes -ко (-ko), -ук (-uk), and -ич (-ych).