Russians in the Baltic states
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Russians in the Baltic states is a broadly defined subgroup of the Russian diaspora who self-identify as ethnic Russians, or are citizens of Russia, and live in one of the three independent countries — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — primarily the consequences of the USSR's forced population transfers during occupation. As of 2021, there were approximately 900,000 ethnic Russians in the three countries (315,000 in Estonia, 445,000 in Latvia and 141,000 in Lithuania),[1][2][3] having declined from ca 1.7 million in 1989,[4] the year of the last census during the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation of the three Baltic countries.