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Among urban residents, 101 million people (99.8%) had Russian language skills, and in rural areas, the number was 37 million people (98.7%). [73] The number of native Russian-speakers in 2010 was 118.6 million (85.7%), [citation needed] a bit higher than the number of ethnic Russians (111 million, or 80.9%). [citation needed]
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many Russians have migrated to the United States and brought the language with them. Most Russian speakers in the United States today are Russian Jews. According to the 2010 United States census the number of Russian speakers was 854,955, which made Russian the 12th most spoken language in the country. [1]
Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, [5] having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the US census. [ 4 ]
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
This article is part of a series on the United States House of Representatives Great Seal of the United States House of Representatives History of the House Members Current members (by seniority non-voting) Former members Hill committees (DCCC NRCC) Women in the House Speaker of the House (list of speakers list of elections) Party leaders Democratic Caucus Republican Conference Congressional ...
U.S. and Russian participants have quietly met in Switzerland for unofficial discussions about the Ukraine war in recent months, including as recently as last week, three sources with knowledge of ...
Following the establishment of the State of Israel, many Russian Jews fled to the country along with their non-Jewish relatives, with the current estimate of Russians in Israel totalling 300,000 [1] (1,000,000 including Russian Jews who in the Soviet Union were not registered as Russians but rather as ethnic Jews).
U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said on Thursday there is "no appetite" for another funding bill for Ukraine, a day after President Donald Trump called Ukrainian ...