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Other than ethnic Russians, 13,012 non-Russians speak Russian as a first language (11,859 of them are ethnic Armenians and the other 1,153 Russian speakers are of other ethnicities. In addition to those who speak Russian as a first language, 1,591,246 people or 52.7% of Armenia's citizens speak Russian as a second language [17]
According to the Russian 2002 census, there were 274,566 Armenians. 211,397 of them spoke Armenian as their native language and 6,948 had Armenian citizenship. According to estimates some 500,000, [ 32 ] [ 33 ] 700,000 [ 34 ] or 1,000,000 [ 35 ] Armenians resided in Krasnodar.
The main foreign languages that Armenians know are Russian and English. Due to its Soviet past, most of the old population can speak Russian quite well. According to a 2013 survey, 95% of Armenians said they had some knowledge of Russian (24% advanced, 59% intermediate) compared to 40% who said they knew some English (4% advanced, 16% ...
Russian Armenia is the period of Armenian history under Russian rule from 1828, when Eastern Armenia became part of the Russian Empire following Qajar Iran's loss in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) and the subsequent ceding of its territories that included Eastern Armenia per the out coming Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828.
Armenian Russian is the regional variety of Russian spoken in Armenia [6] [1] and the partially-recognised Republic of Artsakh (as Artsakhi (Armenian) Russian), where parliament voted to establish Russian an official language in March 2021. [7] There are some vocabulary differences to the variety of Russian as spoken in Armenia/Artsakh, such as:
Occupation of Yerevan by Russian forces 1828: Treaty of Turkmanchay. Eastern Armenia is forcefully ceded by Persia to Russia per the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828), strengthening Russian control of Transcaucasus. 1836: The Russian government enacts the Polozhenie, a statute greatly restricting the power of the Armenian Church. [1] 1894–1896
The Nagorno-Karabakh leadership told Reuters the region's 120,000 Armenians did not want to live as part of Azerbaijan for fear of persecution and ethnic cleansing. Those with fuel had started to ...
Russia has placed pressure on Yerevan to open more Russian schools, which have so far not been successful. [10] At the same time, there are complications concerning the status of Russian as a language. With the influx of Russians following 2022, many have voiced concern that the use of Armenian will dwindle in the face of Russian and English.