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Russians in Finland (or Russian Finns) constitute a linguistic and ethnic minority in Finland. About 30000 people have citizenship of the Russian Federation and Russian is the mother language of about 70000 people in Finland which represents about 1.3% of the population.Russians citizens who moved before the Second World War are called Old Russians. The next immigration wave happened after the dissolution of the Soviet Union as Ingrian Finns remigrated to Finland.

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language
Russians, Finnish language
population place
Helsinki, Eastern Finland Province, Southern Finland Province
related
Russians, History of the Jews in Finland, Finnish Tatars
religion
Russian Orthodox Church, Finnish Orthodox Church
total population
70000

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