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Today, large ethnic Ukrainian minorities reside in Russia, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Italy and Argentina. [ citation needed ] According to some sources, around 20 million people outside Ukraine identify as having Ukrainian ethnicity, [ 88 ] [ 89 ] [ 90 ] however the official data of the respective countries calculated ...
[50] [51] Rusyns are also not recognised by the Ukrainian government as a distinct ethnic group and are instead treated as a sub-group of Ukrainians. [ 52 ] According to the 2021 law “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine”, the Crimean Tatars , Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks are the indigenous peoples of Ukraine.
Large ethnic Russian (the largest ethnic minority in the country), Romanian (including Moldovans), Bulgarian and Hungarian minorities exist in Ukraine, and Romania and Hungary have striven for the minority rights of the minorities they respectively represent. [2]
Ukrainian language was used in publications, schooling, and many ethnic Ukrainians were made literate. Many ethnic Ukrainians also moved to the cities, which, in the south and west, had previously been Russian in culture. This led to a renewal of the Ukrainian national identity that expanded to most of Soviet Ukraine.
The ethnic composition is as follows: Russians: 1.49 million (65.3%), Ukrainians: 0.35 million (15.1%), Crimean Tatars: 0.24 million (12.0%). [20] [30] Official Ukrainian authorities and Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People claimed doubts that the results of population census in Crimea represent the facts. [31]
Romani children in Vinnytsia. Ukraine is a multi-ethnic country that was formerly part of the Soviet Union. [1] [2] [3] Valeriy Govgalenko argues that racism and ethnic discrimination has arguably been a largely fringe issue in the past, but has had a climb in social influence due to ultra-nationalist parties gaining attention in recent years. [4]
Ukrainian may refer or relate to: Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe; Ukrainians, an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine; Demographics of Ukraine; Ukrainian culture, composed of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people; Ukrainian language, an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily ...
The Ukrainian word nehr (Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: nègre, lit. ' Negro ', itself a nativized loan from the Spanish : negro and the Portuguese : negro . [ 5 ]