 Although only 4.1% are ethnic Russians, Russian is still used as the main language by 14.5% of the total population.Around 50% of ethnic Ukrainians, 33% of Gagauz, 33% of Bulgarians, and 5.7% of Moldovans declared Russian as their daily use language.Historically Russian was taught in schools as the first foreign language, because of the relationship with the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.