Russians | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians


00:00:57 1 Ethnonym
00:03:14 2 History
00:03:24 2.1 Origin
00:05:53 2.2 Kievan Rus'
00:06:16 2.3 Russian Empire
00:06:25 3 Population
00:06:52 3.1 Russia
00:07:13 3.2 Former Soviet states
00:07:35 3.3 Diaspora
00:12:33 4 Culture
00:15:08 4.1 Language
00:19:17 4.2 Religion
00:21:50 5 Notable achievements
00:25:00 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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Russians (Russian: русские, tr. russkiye) are a nation and an East Slavic ethnic group native to European Russia  in Eastern Europe. Outside Russia, notable minorities exist in other former Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic states. A large Russian diaspora also exists all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Brazil, and Canada. 
The Russians share many cultural traits with other East Slavic ethnic groups, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion. The Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states.