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are Russians considered Asians or Europeans?

the country is so big that it borders with asian and european countries so i was wondering...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    well that's a good question.as u yrself hv mentioned,the country is SO BIG.well that's the hint.russia is a MULTIRACIAL country.in the russian lang itself there hav been two dif terms:Русский-Русская [russkiy-russkaya] (a man and a woman who belong to Russian {european} ethnic and Российский-Российская [rossiyskiy-rossiyskaya] (a man and woman of the/who live in the Russian Federation.he/she might be a Russian or not).according to wikipedia: As of the Russian Census (2002), 79.8% of the population is ethnically Russian, 3.8% Tatar, 2% Ukrainian, 1.2% Bashkir, 1.1% Chuvash, 0.9% Chechen, 0.8% Armenian. The remaining 10.3% includes those who did not specify their ethnicity as well as (in alphabetical order) Assyrians, Avars, Azeris, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Buryats, Chinese, Cossacks, Estonians, Evenks, Finns, Georgians, Germans, Greeks, Ingushes, Inuit, Jews, Kalmyks, Karelians, Kazakhs, Koreans, Kyrgyz, Lithuanians, Latvians, Maris, Mongolians, Mordvins, Nenetses, Ossetians, Poles, Romanians, Tajiks, Tuvans, Turkmen, Udmurts, Uzbeks, Yakuts, and others. Nearly all of these groups live compactly in their respective regions; Russians are the only people significantly represented in every region of the country.to be short russians represent the european race of the russian federation.just look at them:blonde hair,blue eyes etc....

  • 1 decade ago

    European

  • 1 decade ago

    European. The country forms part of the Asian continent, but the people originate from Europe (although some Russians are mixed race).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They just really want to be considered as Europeans.. truth is, if you go there, you will find out it is a big mix of Asian and European culture. Eastern Europe is the only right expression for it.

    Source(s): I'm Russian.
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  • 1 decade ago

    RUSSIA IS THE LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY LIES IN ASIA, HOWEVER A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE PEOPLE LIVE IN THE EUROPEAN PORTION OF THE COUNTRY WHICH IS BORDERED BY THE URAL MOUNTAIN RANGE. IT IS MY BELIEF THAT IF YOU ASKED PEOPLE LIVING IN SIBERIA THEY WOULD SAY THAT THEY ARE ASIANS, AT THE SAME TIME ASK SOMEONE IN MOSCOW AND THEY WOULD SAY EUROPEAN.

    SO THE ANSWER WOULD BE MOST ARE EUROPEANS AND A FEW VERY COLD ASIANS! RUSSIA ALSO BORDERS WITH NORTH AMERICA AT THE BERING STRAIGHT.

    NOW ARE CANADIANS AMERICANS?

  • 6 years ago

    There European , look at Putin the president of Russia for a example he's white Caucasian . Russia is so big but most of the population of Russians mainly live in Europe so my answer is europe

  • 1 decade ago

    They're European.

  • 1 decade ago

    Typically they're known as Eastern Europeans.

  • 1 decade ago

    European. The stereotype for Russians is blue eyes & blond hair.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    European. I just had a discussion about that recently.

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