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Russophone (or
russophone;, also
Russian-speaking) is literally a speaker of the
Russian language either natively or by preference. At the same time the term is used in a more specialized meaning to describe the category of people whose cultural background is associated with Russian language regardless of ethnic and territorial distinctions.
The largest and most populous Russophone country is
Russia, where the language originates from. There are sizable Russophone communities in many neighbouring countries that were parts of the former
Soviet Union, of which
Belarus,
Ukraine,
Kazakhstan,
Moldova,
Estonia and
Latvia. Additionally, there are large Russophone immigrant communities in
Israel and various parts of the
United States,
Canada and
Australia.
There are an estimated 280 million Russophones worldwide.
Russian population in post-Soviet states
Russophony in the
post-Soviet states is a controversial phenomenon. Throughout Russia and the former Soviet states, the languages of many different ethnic groups were suppressed by
Russification, as Russian attained its status as a
de facto language that unified the Soviet nation and was used exclusively in all official and interstate affairs. After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union this situation was reversed in the countries of the "Near Abroad" (ближнее зарубежье,
blizhneye zarubezhye) — the term used in Russia for the
post-Soviet states — and the use of Russian was discouraged, with the notable exceptions of
Belarus,
Kazakhstan, and
Kyrgyzstan where Russian remains today an official language. The breakaway republics of
Abkhazia (
Georgia),
South Ossetia (Georgia), and
Transnistria (Moldova) have also declared Russian as official in the territories under their control.
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