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Minority ethnic group live in Tajikistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russians in Tajikistan are a minority ethnic group numbering 30,200 individuals as of 2020 Census, representing 0.3% of the population.[1] In 1989, ethnic Russians made up 7.6% of the population.[2] The population of ethnic Russians in Tajikistan is rapidly declining due to low fertility rates and immigration.
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Most ethnic Russians reside in the capital city of Dushanbe. Regardless of this situation, Russian is provided with the status of a co-official language with Tajik and a status of a "language of interethnic communication", and since Soviet times remains widely used on many levels of the society and the state. Both Russian and Persian (Tajik) are Indo-European languages, the former is a Slavic language & the latter belongs to Indo-Iranian language family.
Russians in Tajikistan are mostly followers of the Russian Orthodox Church, under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Dushanbe and Tajikistan.
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