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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
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Russians , native_name_lang = ru , image = , caption = , population = , popplace = 118 million Russians in the Russian Federation (2002 ''Winkler Prins'' estimate) , region1 = , pop1 ...
(, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *
Rossiyane Russian citizenship law details the conditions by which a person holds citizenship of Russia. The primary law governing citizenship requirements is the federal law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation", which came into force on 1 July 2002. ...
(), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *
Russophone This article details the geographical distribution of Russian-speakers. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the status of the Russian language often became a matter of controversy. Some Post-Soviet states adopted policies of Derussi ...
, Russian-speaking person (, ''russkogovoryashchy'', ''russkoyazychny'') *
Russian language Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European langua ...
, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *
Russian alphabet The Russian alphabet (russian: ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, , label=none, or russian: ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, label=none, more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. I ...
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Russian cuisine Russian cuisine is a collection of the different dishes and cooking traditions of the Russian people as well as a list of culinary products popular in Russia, with most names being known since pre-Soviet times, coming from all kinds of social ...
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Russian culture Russian culture (russian: Культура России, Kul'tura Rossii) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical location and its vast expanse, religious and social traditions, and Western culture, Western influence. Russian ...
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Russian studies Russian studies is an interdisciplinary field crossing politics, history, culture, economics, and languages of Russia and its neighborhood, often grouped under Soviet and Communist studies. Russian studies should not be confused with the study of ...
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Russian dressing Russian dressing is a piquant American cuisine, American salad#Dressings, salad dressing consisting of mayonnaise, ketchup, and other ingredients. Russian dressing is similar to Thousand Island dressing, Thousand Island. Some manufactured versi ...
*''The Russians'', a book by
Hedrick Smith Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former ''New York Times'' reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with ''The New York Times'' from 1962-88 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Mosc ...
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Russian (comics) The Russian ( rus. Русский) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an enemy of the Punisher. Publication history Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the character ma ...
, fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from ''The Punisher'' series *
Russian (solitaire) Yukon is a type of patience or solitaire card game using a single deck of playing cards like Klondike, but there is no deck or stock, and manipulation of the tableau works differently."Yukon" in Rules Yukon has the following adjustments t ...
, a card game * "Russians" (song), from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'' by Sting *"Russian", from the album ''
Tubular Bells 2003 ''Tubular Bells 2003'' is the 22nd studio album by English musician Mike Oldfield, released on 27 May 2003 by Warner Music Spain. It is a digital re-recording of his 1973 album ''Tubular Bells'', released almost 30 years earlier. To date, this ...
'' by Mike Oldfield *"Russian", from the album '' <, °_°, >'' by Caravan Palace *
Nik Russian The Great Reality TV Swindle (also known as Project MS-2) was a Confidence trick, con perpetrated in 2002 by Nik Russian, a British man who, at the time, was working at an entry-level position in a branch of the UK book chain Waterstone's. Russi ...
, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002 *The South African name for a variety of
Kielbasa Kielbasa (, ; from Polish ) is any type of meat sausage from Poland and a staple of Polish cuisine. In American English the word typically refers to a coarse, U-shaped smoked sausage of any kind of meat, which closely resembles the ''Wiejska'' ...
sausage *Something related to
Ruthenia Ruthenia or , uk, Рутенія, translit=Rutenia or uk, Русь, translit=Rus, label=none, pl, Ruś, be, Рутэнія, Русь, russian: Рутения, Русь is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin as one of several terms ...
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Ruthenians Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The Latin term Rutheni was used in medieval sourc ...
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Ruthenian language Ruthenian ( Belarusian: руская мова; Ukrainian: руська мова; Ruthenian: руска(ѧ) мова; also see other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely-related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly th ...
*Something related to the Russian Empire or Soviet Union **Soviet people **East Slavs **All-Russian nation


See also

* *Russia (disambiguation) *Rus (disambiguation) *Rossiysky (disambiguation) *Russian River (disambiguation) *Rusyn (disambiguation) *Soviet (disambiguation) *''The Russian People'', 1942 play *Rushen (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages