it confuses me!
2007-03-16 16:20:38 · 14 answers · asked by wamzy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
oops i aciidentally put it in languages!
2007-03-16 16:21:26 · update #1
Well he is American of course ! That is what my son calls himself "The Russian" . LOL .
2007-03-16 17:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by NotSoPerfect 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Russians distinguish between nationality (народность: narodnost') and citizenship (гражданство: grazhdanstvo). So if you're a citizen of the Russian Federation, you're a россиянини (rossiianin). However, a rossiianin may or may not be a русский (russkii): someone who's ethnically Russian. Conversely, a russkii might not have Russian citizenship.
2007-03-17 01:59:02 · answer #2 · answered by garik 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not just people from Russia have Russian nationality. In the former Soviet Union countries, people's nationality is determined by one of their fathers'. So even if you reside in Russia you could be any other nationality, but a Russian citizenship. I'm from Kazakhstan, but my nationality is Ukrainian, b/c my dad's nationality is Ukrainian. A lot of my family lives in Russia, but their nationalities are German. I hope you can understand the concept.
2007-03-16 17:35:39 · answer #3 · answered by jt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Russian in the sense of the current country is several nationalities - from the original Rus is now mixed with Tatars, Belarussian, Huns, Mongols ,Azeri etc...
But as far the current Russia goes you said it Russian
2007-03-16 16:27:06 · answer #4 · answered by rowanwagner 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
ummm it is considered to be in the category of the Slavic nationalities such as polish Ukrainian and all those other ones there are several branches of nationalities and the all come from a different branch such as for example French Spanish Italian are the romantic languages you should look it up
2007-03-16 18:53:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer able to understand precisely what you prefer to alter. in case you prefer to alter your citizenship, you circulate to Russian embassy or immigration place of work, whenever you're. in case you prefer to alter your call it extremely is undemanding to do it in DMV. My husband did. Now he calls himself Russian.
2016-10-02 06:27:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok so the western side is the major cities- moscow, st.petersburg, etc. and those people are white. more in the middle and eastern are siberian people, who are asian. there are more, but that sums up the two major groups. :]
2007-03-16 20:02:54 · answer #7 · answered by somortex 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummmm . . . Russian IS the nationality !!!!
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2007-03-16 16:28:20 · answer #8 · answered by Maewest 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
uhhh... is this a trick question??? russian, i thought every1 knew, is russian!
2007-03-16 16:30:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
u just said it...RUSSIAN...there u go...two thumbs up for u!
2007-03-16 16:48:05 · answer #10 · answered by MJ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋