World Russians

From Wikipedia:
"Ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states"

 

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, about 25 million ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states found themselves living outside the Russian Federation, which was the successor state to the USSR by CIS treaty. All former Soviet citizens were offered a time window within which to transfer their former Soviet citizenship to Russian citizenship. Where that choice was not made, 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 World War II.
Today the largest ethnic Russian diaspora populations outside of Russia live in the United States and in the "near abroad" countries. The populations are: Ukraine (about 8 million), Kazakhstan (about 4.5 million), United States (about 3 million), Belarus (about 1.2 million), Uzbekistan (about 650,000) Kyrgyzstan (about 600,000) and Latvia (about 556,422). In June 2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the plan to introduce national policy aiming at encouraging ethnic Russian immigration to Russia.  

 

Ethnic Russians in former Soviet Union states in 1994

 

- Russians in Canada: 500,600 (2006)

- Russians in the United States: 3.13 million

 

 - Russians in Israel:  1,633,000

- Russians in Afghanistan:  1,500 (2009)

Russians in the EU:

- Russians in France:  115,000

 - Russians in Bulgaria: 9,978 (2011)

- Russians in Croatia:  906 Russians (2001)

- Russians in Poland: 13,000 people (2011).

- Russians in Cyprus: 10,520 people (2001)

- Russians in the United Kingdom: 300,000

- Russians in Germany:  560,178 people (2007)

- Russians in Estonia:  320,000 (24% of total population) - - Former Soviet Republic

- Russians in Latvia: 556,422 (2011) (26.9% of total population) - - Former Soviet Republic

- Russians in Lithuania: 176,913 people (2011) or 5.8% of the total population - Former Soviet Republic

Russians in the Former Soviet Union:

 - Russians in Armenia: 12,500, About 0.5% of the country's population

- Russians in Azerbaijan:  119,300 (2009)

- Russians in Belarus: 1.2 million for 11.4% of the population

- Russians in Georgia: 67,671 people or 1.5 % of the population

- Russians in Kazakhstan:  3,400,000  (20% of total population)

 

- Russians in Kyrgyzstan: 419,600 (2009)  9.1% of the total population

- Russians in Moldova ; 369,896 (2004)  9.39% of the population

 

- Russians in Tajikistan: 68,200 (2000) 1.1% of the population.

 

- Russians in Turkmenistan: 297,913 (2000) representing 4% of the population.

 

- Russians in Uzbekistan: 1,653,478  representig 5.5% of the population.

- Russians in the Ukraine: 8,334,100 (2001)  17.3% of the population

 

^ I included this so that people can see how many ethnic Russians live in different parts of the world. Some in Russia have said they will do "anything and everything" to protect the ethnic Russians regardless of where they live. Right now they are occupying the Ukraine and any number of countries could be next. ^

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_post-Soviet_states