| Mr Khan said:
I don't remember us ever discussing that before, but its true, is it not? There's "Passport Russian" and "Russian." |
There's "россиянин" [rossiyanin, noun] = citizenship, word is simply based on "Россия" (Russia), there's "русский" [russkiy, adj.] = a nation. You could say "российский азербайджанец" (Russian Azeri) as opposed to "иранский азербайджанец" (Iranian Azeri), but you could say as well "русский азербайджанец" (same Russian Azeri for you) to denote he's assimilated or simply live here. Russitsky sounds like somebody's last name.
As for the Boston guys in question. Their last name sounds like Ossetian to me (probably part of Ossetian diaspora in Chechnya or Dagestan?), from what I've got they lived in Kyrgyztan, lived in Makhachkala for like 4 months (that's Russia, Dagestan), eventually moved to the States using Turkish visas. Now... you decide who they are if this's really that important :D
