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Article: Russians
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- Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
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Russians
PRONUNCIATION:
RUSH-ens
LOCATION:
Russian Federation
POPULATION:
150 million [total population of country: 80 percent are ethnic Russians]
LANGUAGE:
Russian
RELIGION:
Russian Orthodox; Baptist; Seventh-Day Adventist; Jehovah's Witness
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INTRODUCTION
Ethnic Russians account for about 80 percent of the Russian Federation's population, but the country is very diverse. There are many language groups represented by over one hundred different ethnic groups. Besides the Russians, this article also contains profiles on five other ethnic groups, each from different linguistic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds: the Chechens (a Caucasian group), the Chukchi ...