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 LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF RUSSIANS AND NON-RUSSIANS (Numbers Taken from 1989 Census)Country Titular Nationality Russian Minority (with % knowing Russian) with % knowing local language)Russia 119,807,165 NAUkraine 37,340,368(59.4%) 11,340,250(32.7%)Belarus 7,897,781(60.4%) 1,341,055(24.5%)Moldova 2,790,769(53.4%) 560,423(11.2%)Armenia 3,081,920(44.3%) 51,553(32.2%)Georgia 3,789,385(31.8%) 338,645(22.7%)Azerbaijan 5,800,994(31.7%) 392,303(14.3%)Kazakhstan 6,531,921(62.8%) 6,226,400( 0.9%)Kyrgyzstan 2,228,482(36.9%) 916,543( 1.2%)Uzbekistan 14,123,626(22.3%) 1,652,179( 4.5%)Turkmenistan 2,524,136(27.6%) 334,477( 2.5%)Tajikistan 3,168,193(30.0%) 386,630( 3.5%)Estonia 963,269(33.6%) 474,815(13.7%)Latvia 1,387,647(65.7%) 905,515(21.2%)Lithuania 2,924,048(37.4%) 343,597(33.5%)