re: #53 Sergey Romanov

(Surely you don’t expect me to define an ethnicity in a comment? ;).

LOL, nope. Russia is damned confusing—provinces, republics, territories, autonomous districts, etc. WTF?

So let me be sure I have it straight: When we say Russia, we’re referring to the political entity of the Russian Federation, which includes all kinds of stuff, but when we say Russian as in a person of Russian ethnicity, we mean what you said in #51. Right?

One more: So is everyone who lives in the 46 oblasts an ethnic Russian, or still no? I guess what I’m trying to do is pin it down to a geographical area. O_o