Wow everyone is being so mean lol. It depends on how you look at it I guess. If you mean are you Russian as in ethnicity, then no. You are not full blood Russian, if at all. You say your parents are american, but you may have SOME Russian heritage somewhere. Its very cool to say that you were born there and lived for the first 4 years of your life! I still wouldn't go around telling people you are Russian, but that makes for a cool story. I, on the other hand, am almost full blooded Russian and yet have never been there!! My grandmother moved to america and had my father. I literally missed being born there by one generation!
I would be careful "bragging" about this to anyone. If you ever come across a real Russian they most likely will think you are mocking them, their ethnicity, their language, etc. I know I'm not from Russia but even I get annoyed when people from America try to talk like they know all about it!
Oh and its Christmas in Russia right now!
You are 100% American because your parents are both American. To say you are part Russian means your parents have some Russian blood and, apparently, they don't. Being born in Russia does not give you the right to say you are part Russian.
You needn't ask what you are considered to be. You are supposed to know what you are, and be what you are, regardless of what they consider you to be.
When you say part Russian, this implies ethnic background. You can't be a part citizen of any country. Therefore you should ask your parents about their ethnicity. Their place of birth has little importance. If there is no Russian blood in your family, you are not Russian even if you were born in Russia. You may be a Russian citizen but, again, no such thing as "part Russian citizen".
Back to the beginning, pay less attention to what they consider you to be.
If you do not have Slavic blood then how can you be Russian other then by citizenship.
My father's family were all Rus, Ruysn,Lemko Rysnak people dating back so far to the mid 1700's in SE Poland.
My grandfather was born in the US returned to Russia around the middle of the Revolution. Married my grandmother who;s roots were also Ruysn from the same area in the Sub Carpathian's.
My father was born in Kunkowa, Poland used to be part of Galica, Austria_Hungary.
My grandfather related to all Slavs as brothers but my father was 100% American.
Suppose it is all a mind set.
WHAT national background does Mama and Papa have? if John Englishman Smith married your mom, Margaret Irishwoman O'Toole, you could call yourself an American born in Russia. If you want, you can say that you are half Irish and half English. i say i am Czech, German, French, Belgian, Irish and maybe Spanish (the family lost knowledge of that bloodline a century and a half ago). my passport is USA, so i am American, statistically. but i am proud of my many roots.
NOW! in your case, if Mama was born Maria Vladimirovna Kuznetsova and married Papa, Dmitry Alexeovich Tarrakanov, it matters not where you were born, you ARE Russian. but to legally attain citizenship demands more than i can research. in short, if your parents ONLY have American citizenship, regardless of your last name, you are only American. had they processed papers in the proper way, you could have Russian citizenship as an ethnic American. further, if you ARE Mr. Tarrakanov in USA, never having had Russian papers formulated, you are Mr.American, only. with Russian heritage. You are what you are, it can't be changed.
You don't have Russian blood, you don't know Russian language, you never lived with Russians so you are unfamiliar with Russian culture. So you don't have anything to do with ethnic Russians.
Russian citizenship is not granted to people simply born on its territory, their parents must have citizenship - so you are hardly a citizen too.
All in all, no, you are not Russian.
By citizenship (= nationality) you are American, but you can claim Russian citizenship, which you're supposed to get easier than "regular" foreigners because you were born there (if you haven't got one - check it in the nearest Russian embassy).
By ethnicity: if your American parents are your biological parents then ask them what ethnic heritage they have. It might be anything, incl Eastern European. If you were adopted from Russia, then you may or may not be ethnic Russian, MaloRussian/Ukrainian or Belarusian, but there are also many other ethnic groups in Russian Federation.
In our language:
rOssiyanin (rOssiyanka for a girl) = nationality, citizenship of Russian Federation (and any Tatar, German, American, Chechen, French, Polish etc can be Rossiyane if they got the passport of RF)
and
rUsskiy (rUsskaya) = ethnicity; a person of Rus' (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian) heritage REGARDLESS of where he/she was born, lives etc.
=> there are tons of non-Russkiye Rossiayne (living in RF) and tons of ethnic Russkiye non-Rossiyane who were born, live etc outside of Russian Federation.
Ethnically, you don't have anything to do with russian, if you tell true, which I highly doubt.
You're just American, but you can CALL yourself Russian-American if you really feel the need to apply a label to yourself.
your a born russian now your american simple it does not matter becouse your better then that your a human being take it eazy man
