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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%.
The other one is россияне (rossiyane), derived from Россия (Rossiya, Russia), which denotes "people of Russia", regardless of ethnicity or religious affiliation. In daily usage, those terms are often mixed up, and since Vladimir Putin became president, the ethnic term русские has supplanted the non-ethnic term.
The Russian Federation is a multinational state with over 190 ethnic groups designated as nationalities, population of these groups varying enormously, from millions in case of e.g. Russians and Tatars to under ten thousand in the case of Samis and Kets. [1]
Ethnic groups in Russia of more than 1 million people in 2010 Percentage of ethnic Russians by region in 2021 (excluding non-stated ethnicity people) Russia is a multinational state , with many subnational entities associated with different minorities. [ 18 ]
Overall, the population of Russia displays strong genetic heterogenity. [11] [2] [12] Ethnic Russians primarily descended from the early Slavic peoples, which diverged from other Indo-Europeans, and early absorbed Uralic-speaking groups as well as Eurasian Steppe groups.
The territory that today is the US state of Alaska was settled by Russians and controlled by the Russian Empire; Russian settlers include ethnic Russians but also Russified Ukrainians, Russified Romanians (from Bessarabia), and Indigenous Siberians, [citation needed] including Yupik, Mongolic peoples, Chukchi, Koryaks, Itelmens, and Ainu.
The 2021 Russian census (Russian: Всероссийская перепись населения 2021 года, romanized: Vserossiyskaya perepis naseleniya 2021 goda, lit. '2021 All-Russian population census') was the first census of the Russian Federation population since 2010 and the third after the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
Russian is the official language of Russia but shares the official status at regional level with other languages in the numerous ethnic autonomies within Russia, such as Chuvashia, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, and Yakutia, and 94% of school students in Russia receive their education primarily in Russian. [74]