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*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 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: | *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. | ||
ethnic Russians; Russians descended from German migrants to the East (known as Aussiedler, Spätaussiedler and Russlanddeutsche (Russian Germans, Germans from Russia)); and Russian Jews. | |||
*Immigration to Germany surged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1992 and 2000 ,Germany purportedly received 550,000 emigrants from Russia. | *Immigration to Germany surged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1992 and 2000 ,Germany purportedly received 550,000 emigrants from Russia. | ||
*Earlier in history, particularly during the 17th century, a number of Germans migrated to Russia. German law provides individuals of German heritage with the right of return to Germany and the means to acquire German citizenship if they suffered persecution after the Second World War as a result of their German heritage.As a result, roughly 3.6 million '''ethnic Germans''' moved to West Germany between 1950 and 1996. Between 1992 and 2007, a total of 1,797,084 ethnic Germans from the former USSR emigrated to Germany. Of this total number 923,902 were from Kazakhstan, 693,348 were from Russia, 73,460 were from Kyrgyzstan, 40,560 from Ukraine, 27,035 from Uzbekistan, and 14,578 from Tajikistan. many retained housing in the Former Soviet Union—some are presumed to have returned to their residences in Former Soviet Republics. | *Earlier in history, particularly during the 17th century, a number of Germans migrated to Russia. German law provides individuals of German heritage with the right of return to Germany and the means to acquire German citizenship if they suffered persecution after the Second World War as a result of their German heritage.As a result, roughly 3.6 million '''ethnic Germans''' moved to West Germany between 1950 and 1996. Between 1992 and 2007, a total of 1,797,084 ethnic Germans from the former USSR emigrated to Germany. Of this total number 923,902 were from Kazakhstan, 693,348 were from Russia, 73,460 were from Kyrgyzstan, 40,560 from Ukraine, 27,035 from Uzbekistan, and 14,578 from Tajikistan. many retained housing in the Former Soviet Union—some are presumed to have returned to their residences in Former Soviet Republics. | ||