1 They all have Russian passports.

2 The Kalmyk or Bashkir or Yakutiya people sometimes may get angry when they are referred to as "Russian".

3 Although everyone in the Russian Federation has Russian citizenship, they have different nationalities.

4 Russian citizens state their national identity as Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar or Komi, etc.

5 Many students speak their language at home and use Russian at school as their second language.

6 National identity and citizenship are not the same thing in many countries of the world.