Some 8m of the country’s 45m people are ethnic Russians, many of them with Russian passports.
全国4500万人口中800万为俄罗斯民族,其中多数人拥有俄罗斯护照。
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Russian is also much more widely understood than spoken by 30-70 year old ethnic Estonians (learning Russian as the second language in school was compulsory for them during the Soviet era).