Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
Oh, one more thing. Starrysky, Novosibirisk is NOT technically in Europe is it? Are there a lot of minority people there, or mostly Russians?
No, the Urals are the border for the European part of Russia. It's mostly Russians here in Novosib, I couldn't tell the percent but I don't see a lot of people of Asian descent here -- just a random student from Kazakhstan or Altai. I wouldn't answer for other Siberian cities, like Irkutsk (which is near Lake Baikal) because there are Buryats there. But it seems a safe bet that Russians are a majority in all big cities, except Kazan. Kazan is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan, apparently, it's around 50% Russians, 50% Tatars there.