263,523 people or 9.4% have russian as native language and some 94,133 people or 14.1% identified russian as language of daily use. it is the first language for 93.2% of ethnic russians, and a primary language for 4.9% of moldovans, 50.0% of ukrainians, 27.4% of gagauz, 35.4% of bulgarians, and 54.1% of other ethnic minorities.