30 Million Russians Live Abroad

A Russian Foreign Ministry official says that up to 30 million Russians are living outside their homeland, making the Russian diaspora one of the largest in the world.

Aleksander Chepurin, who heads a Foreign Ministry department charged with policy on Russians abroad, said major part of the diaspora comprises former Soviet citizens with Russian roots who appeared to be outside Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

He estimated that Russians make up more than 20 percent of the population in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine.

He urged "some countries of the former Soviet Union" to protect Russian culture, language and education.

Russia accuses Estonia and Latvia of violating the rights of Russians who settled there in the Soviet period.

(AFP, RIA Novosti)

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