Well, yes and no. A Russian Evrei is a Rossiyanin, a member of the class of Eurasian peoples, alongside Russians, Chuvash, Tatars, Ossetians, etc. etc. etc. He or she is not a Russian, which is an ethnocultural category. As, for instance, the Welsh and Scots are British, but not English.
Of course, these things are much more blurred today now that 99% of Russian Jews are assimilated, as opposed to 80 years ago, when they spoke a different language and had a totally different culture.
--- On Mon, 8/4/08, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Anyway, I would not be considered a Russian. Least of all
> by AS.
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