Russians in the Baltic states

Russians in the Baltic states is a broadly defined subgroup of the Russian diaspora who are ethnic Russians, or are citizens of Russia, and live in one of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — primarily as the result of the Soviet Union's population transfers in an effort to Russify the region. As of 2023, there were approximately 887,000 ethnic Russians in the three countries (296,000 in Estonia, 445,000 in Latvia and 145,000 in Lithuania), having declined from ca. 1.7 million in 1989, the year of the last census during the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation of the three Baltic countries.

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