Russian has 166 million speakers, with 137 million native speakers, living in the Russian Federation. However, smaller populations are located in Ukraine ( 8.3 million speakers ), Belarus ( 6.6 million speakers ), Uzbekistan ( 4 million speakers ), and Kazakhstan ( 3.8 million speakers ).
Again, there are some "loanwords" from the Russian language adopted in English, beginning since the 16th century, such as czar or tsar ( year 1555 ), rouble ( year 1557), and beluga ( year 1591 ).
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