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Ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states

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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR) in December 1991, about 25 million ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states found themselves living outside of Russia. However, this number declined to less than 6 million today, excluding Ukraine in which ethnic Russian population is hard to estimate due to lack of a recent census.

All former Soviet citizens had a time window within which they could transfer their former Soviet citizenship to Russian citizenship.[citation needed] Where they did not exercise that choice, their resulting citizenship status outside Russia varied by state: from no perceivable change in status – as in Belarus – to becoming permanently resident "non-citizens" – as in Estonia and Latvia, which restricted citizenship to their pre-World War II citizens and their offspring (regardless of ethnic group) upon restoration of their independence in continuity with their sovereign identities prior to June 1940.

In June 2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to introduce national policy aiming at encouraging ethnic Russian immigration to Russia.[1]

Map showing Ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states
Ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states (1994)
Country Number of
ethnic Russians 		Percent of
national population 		As of
(census data)
 Ukraine 8,334,141 17.3 2001[2]
 Kazakhstan 2,983,317 14.9 2024[3]
 Uzbekistan 720,324 2.1 2021[4]
 Belarus 706,992 7.5 2019[5]
 Latvia 437,587 23.4 2024[6]
 Estonia 296,268 21.6 2024[7]
 Kyrgyzstan 274,940 3.8 2024[8]
 Turkmenistan 114,447 1.6 2022[9]
 Lithuania 144,295 5.0 2024[10]
 Moldova* 75,300 3.2 2024[11]
 Azerbaijan 71,000 0.7 2019[12]
 Tajikistan 29,000 0.3 2020[13]
 Georgia** 26,586 0.7 2014[14]
 Armenia 14,074 0.5 2022[15]

*Does not include Transnistria (2015 census: 138,072 Russians or 29.1% of the population)[16]

**Does not include Abkhazia (2021 census: 22,303 Russians or 9.1% of the population)[17] or South Ossetia (2015 census: 610 Russians or 1.1% of the population)[18]

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References

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  1. ^ Latvia: Ethnic Russians Divided On Moscow's Repatriation Scheme
  2. ^ "2001 | English version | Results | General results of the census | National composition of population". 2007-07-06. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  3. ^ https://stat.gov.kz/api/iblock/element/178068/file/en/
  4. ^ "Permanent population by national and / or ethnic group, urban / rural place of residence". data.egov.uz (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  5. ^ https://www.belstat.gov.by/upload/iblock/b49/b49a6306ec95b5c2d851e897490581a3.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "Population by ethnicity at the beginning of year 1935 - 2024".
  7. ^ "RV0222U: POPULATION BY SEX, ETHNIC NATIONALITY AND COUNTY".
  8. ^ "Statistical Yearbook of the Kyrgyz Republic - Statistics of the Kyrgyz Republic".
  9. ^ "State Committee of Turkmenistan on Statistics". www.stat.gov.tm. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
  10. ^ "Rodiklių duomenų bazė - Oficialiosios statistikos portalas".
  11. ^ "Population and Housing Census". Population and Housing Census. 2025-02-11. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
  12. ^ "National (ethnic) composition of population".
  13. ^ https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/WS10RizoevENG.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ Circle. "2014 General Population Census Results - National Statistics Office of Georgia". www.geostat.ge. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
  15. ^ "The Main Results of RA Census 2022 / Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia". www.armstat.am. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  16. ^ "Ethnic composition of Transnistria 2015". pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
  17. ^ "Руководство". cgsra.org. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  18. ^ "Ethnic composition of Ossetia 2015". pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
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