Russians in Germany
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There is a significant Russian population in Germany (German: Deutschrussen, Russlanddeutsche or Russischsprachige in Deutschland). The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered mass immigration to the West, with Germany being the top destination, mostly for economic and ethnic reasons. Russians (German Russians) are the 3rd largest migrant group in Germany.
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Total population | |
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3,500,000 (estimate, 2018)[1]
Ethnic background: German Russians: 3,500,000–4,000,000 - Ethnic Russians: 2,213,000[2] - Russian Jews: 118,000-225,000 - Russian citizens: 230,994 (2015)[3] | |
Languages | |
Russian, German, German-Russian macaronic, (Hebrew, Yiddish spoken by Russian Jews) | |
Religion | |
Russian Orthodoxy, Atheism, Irreligion, Roman Catholic, Protestantism, Judaism |
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