Ethnic+Groups+in+Russia

=**People - Lacey Rohrich** =

====Most recent records indicate that 81.5% of the population is Russian, Tatars 3.8%, Ukrainians 3%, Chuvash 1.2%, Bashkir account for 0.9%; Belarussian 0.8%, Moldavian 0.7%; and a wide variety of others equal 8.1%. Russia has inherited many nationality problems that plagued the Soviet Union. The last Soviet census, in 1989, listed more than 100 nationalities. Slavs account for about 85 percent of Russia's population. ====

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the outer states -- ethnically Slavic, Mongol, Circassian/Caucasian, and Turkic -- gained independence from Russian Slavic hegemony