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The Russian diaspora is the global community of ethnic Russians. The Russian-speaking ( Russophone ) diaspora are the people for whom Russian language is the native language , regardless of whether they are ethnic Russians or not.
Russian clubs CSKA Moscow and Zenit Saint Petersburg won the UEFA Cup in 2005 and 2008. [191] [192] The Russian national football team reached the semi-finals of Euro 2008. [193] Russia was the host nation for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, [194] and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. [195] Ice hockey is very popular in Russia. [196]
Russian diaspora in the Middle East (5 C, 1 P) Russian Mennonite diaspora (4 C, 1 P) Russian-Jewish diaspora (5 C, 8 P) V. Volga German diaspora (1 C, 32 P)
Russian Americans (Russian: русские американцы, romanized: russkiye amerikantsy, IPA: [ˈruskʲɪje ɐmʲɪrʲɪˈkant͡sɨ]) are Americans of full or partial Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in ...
Russians in the Baltic states is a broadly defined subgroup of the Russian diaspora who self-identify as ethnic Russians, or are citizens of Russia, and live in one of the three independent countries — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — primarily the consequences of the USSR's forced population transfers during occupation.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has evoked traumatic memories for Holocaust survivors as rabbis turn synagogues into shelters. Ukraine's Jews seek refuge in synagogues as Russia invades Skip to main ...
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR) in December 1991, about 25 million ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states found themselves living outside of Russia.. All former Soviet citizens had a time window within which they could transfer their former Soviet citizenship to Russian citizenship.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIt was a cold winter morning in Moscow in the late 2000s. At the southern end of the Slavyanskaya Square, in front of the giant ...