of speakers of Finnic languages in Russia's north-west

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• Finns — Ethnic group group=Finns caption= poptime= 6.5 7.0 million (est.) regions=flagcountry|Finland:nbsp|6 approx. 5,300,000 [ [http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/vaerak/2006/vaerak 2006 2007 03 23 tie 001.html Finnish Population Registry Center 31.12.2006] …   Wikipedia