Ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states
Introduction 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.All former Soviet citizens had a time window within which they could transfer their former Soviet citizenship to Russian citizenship. 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.Ethnic Russians in post-Soviet states CountryNumber ofethnic RussiansPercent ofnational populationAs of(census data)   8,334,141  17.2  2001   706,992  7.5  2019   750,000  2.3  2017   3,429,747  17.9  2022   26,586  0.7  2014   119,300  1.35  2009   139,507  4.8  2015   111,726  4.1  2014   454,350  24.2  2022    364,500  6.2  2015   34,838  0.5  2010   11,862  0.4  2011   297,913  4  2000   315,252  23.6  2022 Does not include Abkhazia (2011 census: 22,077 Russians or 9.1% of the population) or South Ossetia (2007 estimate: 2,100 Russians or 3.0% of the population). In Turkmenistan, there were estimated to be at most 150,000 ethnic Russians as of 2007, or under 2% of the population. In Uzbekistan the same year, the Russian population stood at some 800,000 people or under 4% of the country.==See also== * Russians in Armenia * Russians in Azerbaijan * Russians in Belarus * Russians in Estonia * Russians in Georgia * Russians in Kazakhstan * Russians in Kyrgyzstan * Russians in Latvia * Russians in Lithuania * Russians in Moldova * Russians in Tajikistan * Russians in Turkmenistan * Russians in Ukraine * Russians in Uzbekistan
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