Russians in Ukraine (Russian: Русские в Украине, romanized: Russkiye v Ukraine, Ukrainian: Росіяни в Україні, romanized: Rosiiany v Ukraini) constitute the country's largest ethnic …

Oct 12, 2022 · Based on the 2001 census, about 14.3 million Ukrainian people (29% of the population) speak Russian as a first language, although by some estimates it is higher. The …

Large ethnic Russian (the largest ethnic minority in the country), Romanian (including Moldovans), Bulgarian and Hungarian minorities exist in Ukraine, and Romania and Hungary have striven …

Jan 23, 2025 · Russians continue to be the largest minority, though they now constitute less than one-fifth of the population. The remainder of the population includes Belarusians, Moldovans, …

Ethnic Russians have advocated for improved economic conditions, stronger ties to Russia and the CIS, and the protection of Russian-language rights (CULGR04-06 = 1). Russians also …

Mar 12, 2014 · A very simple version is that in the west and centre of Ukraine the people speak Ukrainian and identify themselves as Ukrainians and, and in the east and south most people …

Feb 28, 2022 · Indeed, in Donetsk ethnic Ukrainians make up 56.9 %, and ethnic Russians 38.2 % of the population. 9 The numbers are similar for Luhansk, and in both cases, ethnic …

Mar 21, 2022 · Among ethnic Russians, 95.9% declared Russian as their native language and 3.9% stated it was Ukrainian. High percentages of persons belonging to several national …

to the surface, it may be useful to recall some basic data about Ukraine's Russian population and to briefly survey official Kyiv's approach to nationality and interethnic matters. The 1989 …

Among the successor states of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has the largest Russian ethnic population outside of the Russian Federation (Bremmer 1994, 262) and is the European nation …