According to the 2016 Australian census, 85,000 people reported their Russian roots. According to unofficial data, more than 100 thousand Russian-speaking people live in Australia. These are immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan.
Most Russian-born residents live in Melbourne (5,407) or Sydney (5,367). A significant portion of Russian-born residents are women (62%), and most (69%) had arrived in Australia no earlier than 1990.
The latest Census in 2016 recorded 20,425 Russian Federation-born people in Australia, an increase of 11.8 per cent from the 2011 Census.
The vast majority of Russia's population live in the western core area of the country, the region around the capital city of Moscow. Most of the cities on the Barents Sea and in the Eastern Frontier were established for manufacturing or for the exploitation of raw materials.
Former USSR
Today the largest ethnic Russian diasporas outside of Russia exist in former Soviet states such as Ukraine (about 9 million), Kazakhstan (3,644,529 or 20.61% in 2016), Belarus (about 1.5 million), Uzbekistan (about 650,000) Kyrgyzstan (about 600,000) and Latvia (471,276 or 24.7% in 2020).
About 75 percent of the Russian population lives on the Northern European Plain. This region holds Russia's most populous cities, including Moscow and St.
Germany has the highest Russian-speaking population outside the former Soviet Union, with approximately 3 million people. They are split into three groups, from largest to smallest: Russian-speaking ethnic Germans (Aussiedler), ethnic Russians, and Jews.
One is "русские" (russkie), which in modern Russia most often means "ethnic Russians". Another is "россияне" (rossiyane), which denotes "Russian citizens", regardless of ethnicity or religious affiliation.
In terms of active-duty personnel, they are the world's fifth-largest military force, with 1.15 million and at least two million reserve personnel. Russia plans to expand its active personnel force to 1.5 million by 2026, which will make it the third largest in the world, after China and India.
The two main Chinese communities of Russia are those in Moscow and those in the Russian Far East.
Since that time, United States has been the most important security ally. The close security relationship with the United States was formalized in 1951 by the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security (ANZUS) Treaty which remains the cornerstone of Australian security arrangements.
The IMF compiles a measure of the 'purchasing power' of the incomes of the world's nations to account for this difference. This shows that Russia's economy is equivalent to US$4.4 trillion while Australia's measure is unchanged at US$1.4 trillion.
In 2016, there were 6,306 Victorians born in Russian Federation, the majority of whom lived around the suburbs of Caulfield and Carnegie. While 23% were Jewish, 29% were Russian Orthodox. Most members of the community today are employed as professionals, and speak Russian at home.
According to the 2016 Australian census, 85,000 people reported their Russian roots. According to unofficial data, more than 100 thousand Russian-speaking people live in Australia. These are immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan.
Today, there is an active Ukrainian community of about 38,000 people, predominantly living in Melbourne and Sydney. There are also Ukrainian centres in Geelong, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra. Smaller centres exist in Queanbeyan, Hobart, Newcastle, Moe, Albury-Wodonga, and Northam.
At the 2021 census, 1,390,637 Australian residents identified themselves as having Chinese ancestry, accounting for 5.5% of the total population.
The United States has the strongest military force in the world, with Russia and China in second and third and India in fourth place, according to Global Firepower, a data website that tracks global defence-related information.
Introduction. The size of armies around the world varies greatly, with the People's Republic of China having the largest army, with over 2 million military personnel. India and the United States follow closely behind with 1.46 million and 1.39 million military personnel respectively.
In total, Nato has around 3.36 million active military personnel, Statista data indicates.
The most popular way to say "friend" in Russian is друг (DROOK) for a male friend and подруга (padROOga) for a female friend.
Pусская (russkaya) is how you say a woman who is ethnic Russian. Pоссиянка (rossiyanka) is a woman with citizenship of Russian Federation.
These new Russian immigrants had mostly been prominent citizens of the Empire—aristocrats, professionals, and former imperial officials—and were called “White Russians” because of their opposition to the “red” Soviet state.
Similarly, a 2017 opinion poll by the Moscow-based non-governmental think tank Levada-Center states that Russians identified India as one of their top five "friends", with the others being Belarus, China, Kazakhstan and Syria.
Ethnic Russians in China are Chinese citizens. Many of them are descendants of Cossacks. There are currently over 16,000 ethnic Russians in China who have lived their entire life as Chinese citizens.