Propp is right, Russian is a race and nationality. But, isn't it more correct to refer to the race as "slavic". Because u meet people from all over eastern europe like poland, bulgaria, slavakia, etc... and they all look 'russian' but thats just because they are slavic.

So maybe his girlfriend is ethnically russian, but she's still not russian, she's slavic.

Its like all the kids here from ukraine, they call themselves russian cuz they look like it, but then u say 'R u russian' and they be like NO WE ARE UKRAINIAN so then u get a girlfriend from ukraine who is ethnically slavically russian so u call her russian but shes liek IM UKRAINIAN.

Thats why i started in the first place i guess moon monster saw the funny side of it, so all is well that ends well.