Russian refers to anything related to Russia, including:
- Russians (russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries (where they are also known as Ruthenians or by other names)
- Demographics of Russia (россиянин, rossiyánin), nationals of the country of Russia of any ethnicity
- Russophone, Russian-speaking person (русскоговорящий, русскоязычный, russkogovoryashchy, russkoyazychny)
- Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
- Russian alphabet
- Russian cuisine
Russian may also refer to:
- Russian dressing
- The Russians - documentary book of Hedrick Smith about life in USSR in 1970's
- Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from The Punisher series
- "Russians" (song), from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting
- "Russian", from the album Tubular Bells 2003, by Mike Oldfield
- Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002
Famous quotes containing the word russian:
“From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)
“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)