The White Russians and the Ukrainians would say that Stalin and Molotov were far less reliable defenders of Russia than Curzon and Clemenceau.

As of 2011, the " stans " are still home to about 7 million Russians and 500 thousand Ukrainians.

As World War II unfolded, Nazi Germany deported and killed millions of Jews and many millions of others were likewise enslaved or murdered, including Ukrainians, Russians and other Slavs.

Over 300, 000 Russians, 200, 000 Georgians, 200, 000 Armenians, 85, 000 Greeks, 50, 000 Azerbaijanis, 50, 000 Ukrainians and 20, 000 Jews have migrated from Georgia since independence.

The proportion of Kazakhs makes up 63. 6 %, Russians 23. 7 %, Uzbeks 2. 9 %, Ukrainians 2. 1 %, Uygur 1. 4 %, Tatars 1. 3 %, Germans 1. 1 %, others 3. 9 %.

Large numbers of Russians, as well as some Ukrainians and Belarussians remained in Latvia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Today Estonians form 69 %, Russians 25. 4 %, Ukrainians 2. 04 % and Belarusians 1. 1 % of the population ( 2012 ).

Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.

Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.

The majority of the losses, excluding POWs, being ethnic Russians ( 5, 756, 000 ), followed by ethnic Ukrainians ( 1, 377, 400 ).

According to the 2010 census, ethnic Russians make up 81 % of the total population, while six other ethnicities have a population exceeding 1 million – Tatars ( 3. 9 %), Ukrainians ( 1. 4 %), Bashkir ( 1. 1 %), Chuvash ( 1 %), Chechens ( 1 %) and Armenians ( 0. 9 %).

The population before World War II consisted of Romanians ( including Moldovans ), Ukrainians ( including Ruthenians ), Russians, Bulgarians, Gagauz, Germans, and Jews.

Up to 65 % of ethnic Russians and a similar percentage of Belarusians and Ukrainians identify themselves as " Orthodox ".

The historical records show that the Treblinka camp guards were of varied ethnic groups and nationalities, comprising not only Germans ( Volksdeutsche ) but also a number of Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Moldovans, Latvians, and representatives of Soviet Central Asia ( including a number of collaborating Soviet prisoners of war ).

Some researchers estimate that altogether more than 3 million people, predominantly Ukrainians but also Russians, Belarusians and Poles, were captured and enslaved during the time of the Crimean Khanate.

The immigrant and minority population in Latvia is 700, 000 people: Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, and others.

Other groups include Russians ( 20. 8 %), Ingush ( 4. 0 %), Armenians ( 2. 3 %), Kumyks ( 2. 3 %), Georgians ( 1. 3 %), Ukrainians ( 0. 4 %), Chechens ( 0. 3 %).

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As with г above, Ukrainians use в to spell both English " v " and " w "; Russians tend to instead opt for using у for " w ".

Currently the city's population is 97 % Polish, 2. 5 % Belarusian and 0. 5 % of a number of minorities including Russians, Lipka Tatars, Ukrainians and Romani.

According to the Ukrainian National Census, 2001, the ethnic groups of Sevastopol include Russians ( 71. 6 %), Ukrainians ( 22. 4 %), Belarusians ( 1. 6 %), Tatars ( 0. 7 %), Crimean Tatars ( 0. 5 %), Armenians ( 0. 3 %), Jews ( 0. 3 %), Moldovans ( 0. 2 %), and Azerbaijanis ( 0. 2 %).

Observers have noted the irony of Russians embracing neo-Nazism, because one of Hitler's ambitions at the start of World War II was to exterminate, expel, or enslave most or all Slavs from central and eastern Europe ( i. e., Russians, Ukrainians, Poles etc .).

It became home to an extremely diverse population of Albanians, Armenians, Azeris, Bulgarians, Crimean Tatars, Frenchmen, Germans ( including Mennonites ), Greeks, Italians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, and traders representing many other nationalities ( hence numerous " ethnic " names on the city's map, for example Frantsuzky ( French ) and Italiansky ( Italian ) Boulevards, Gretcheskaya ( Greek ), Yevreyskaya ( Jewish ), Arnautskaya ( Albanian ) Streets ).

As of July 1, 2010, Astana has a population density of 958 people per square kilometre and a population of about 705, 897, of which Kazakhs, Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars and Germans make up 65. 2 %, 23. 8 %, 2. 9 %, 1. 7 %, 1. 5 % respectively.

Unanimously they believe that the world would become a safer place if more of us -- and more Russians and Communist Chinese, too -- thought about accidental war.

The first choice, abandoning tests entirely, would not only be unpopular domestically, but would surely be exploited by the Russians.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

If, say, the Russians intended to stop Tom Jones' going to the pub, then Tom Jones would fight the Commies.

Not only does the ensuing crisis rank with the Berlin Blockade, the Suez Crisis and the Yom Kippur War as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, it is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict, or possibly World War III, where it is estimated that 100 million Americans and over 100 million Russians would have perished.

In the early decades of the 19th century, it became clear to the British that the major threat to their interests in India would not come from the fragmented Afghan empire, the Iranians, or the French, but from the Russians, who had already begun a steady advance southward from the Caucasus.

Without an Afghan say in the matter, the Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed the Russians would relinquish the farthest territory captured in their advance but retain Panjdeh.

When they released the orbit of Sputnik to the media, the Russians were dumbfounded to learn how powerful American computers had become, as they would not have been able to calculate the orbit themselves.

During his reign ( 1880 – 1901 ), the British and Russians officially established the boundaries of what would become modern Afghanistan.

Results of a controversial poll taken in 2006 stated that over 35 % of Russians would vote for Stalin if he were still alive.

( The British and Russians would invade the neighboring Iran in September of that year ).

In fact, Germany assured Japan that it would help broker a neutrality agreement with the Russians — something that Matsuoka dearly sought.

The new Foreign Minister assured the Soviet Ambassador that Japan would honor the neutrality agreement, even though Germany was urging its Japanese ally to attack the Russians from the east.

Although critical of the Tsar, General Kornilov felt that Russia, as part of the Triple Entente, was committed to continue the war against the Central Powers, and he shared the widespread belief of some Russians that after the February Revolution the country was descending into anarchy and that military defeat would be disastrous for Russia.

In 1934, Hitler himself had spoken of an inescapable battle against both Pan-Slavism and Neo-Slavism, the victory in which would lead to " permanent mastery of the world ", though he stated that they would " walk part of the road with the Russians, if that will help us.

By the late 18th century, a number of defeats in several wars with Russia led some people in the Ottoman Empire to conclude that the reforms of " Deli Petro " ( Peter the Mad, as Peter the Great was known in Turkey ) had given the Russians an edge, and the Ottomans would have to keep up with Western technology in order to avoid further defeats.

" Thereafter, Hitler spoke of an inescapable battle against " pan-Slav ideals ", in which victory would lead to " permanent mastery of the world ", though he said they would " walk part of the road with the Russians, if that will help us.

While doing so, other teams would attempt to fire at the target in order to overwhelm the Russians ' ability to effectively counter the attack.

Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.