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Article: Migration of the Russian diaspora after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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- Journal of International Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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When the Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991, 25.2 million Russians became part of a large diaspora population "without moving an inch or leaving their homes." (1) They went from being members of a privileged majority who arguably saw their homeland as the entire Soviet Union to minority members of 14 newly independent nation states. Some of these states were experiencing sovereignty for the first time in decades and others for the first time in history. All sought to elevate the status of the titular group to some degree, and many were quite hostile to the existence of a Russian minority that ranged from two to 38 percent of their populations. When confronted with ...
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