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*Subbotnik communities were among early supporters of Zionism. During the First Aliyah at the end of the 19th century, thousands of Subbotniks settled in Ottoman Palestine to escape religious persecution due to their differences with the Russian Orthodox Church. Some Subbotniks had immigrated to Ottoman Palestine even prior to the First Aliyah. | *Subbotnik communities were among early supporters of Zionism. During the First Aliyah at the end of the 19th century, thousands of Subbotniks settled in Ottoman Palestine to escape religious persecution due to their differences with the Russian Orthodox Church. Some Subbotniks had immigrated to Ottoman Palestine even prior to the First Aliyah. | ||
*People of full or partial non-Jewish ethnic Russian ancestry number around 300,000 of the Israeli population and the number of Russian passport holders living in Israel is in the hundreds of thousands.<ref>"Subbotniks", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbotniks, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> <ref>"Russians in Israel", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Israel, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> | *People of full or partial non-Jewish ethnic Russian ancestry number around 300,000 of the Israeli population and the number of Russian passport holders living in Israel is in the hundreds of thousands.<ref>"Subbotniks", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbotniks, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> <ref>"Russians in Israel", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Israel, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Russians in Canada==== | |||
According to the 2016 Census, there were 622,445 Canadians who claimed full or partial Russian ancestry. The areas of Canada with the highest percentage population of Russian Canadians are the Prairie Provinces.<ref>"Russian Canadians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Canadians, accessed 11 June 2021.</ref> | |||
====Russians in Germany==== | ====Russians in Germany==== | ||
*German population data from 2012 records 1,213,000 Russian migrants residing in Germany—this includes current and former citizens of the Russian Federation as well as former citizens of the Soviet Union. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that about 3,500,000 speakers of Russian live in Germany.,[5] split largely into three ethnic groups: ethnic Russians; Russians descended from German migrants to the East (known as Aussiedler, Spätaussiedler and Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans, Germans from Russia)); and Russian Jews. | *German population data from 2012 records 1,213,000 Russian migrants residing in Germany—this includes current and former citizens of the Russian Federation as well as former citizens of the Soviet Union. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that about 3,500,000 speakers of Russian live in Germany.,[5] split largely into three ethnic groups: ethnic Russians; Russians descended from German migrants to the East (known as Aussiedler, Spätaussiedler and Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans, Germans from Russia)); and Russian Jews. | ||