Russians in Lithuania numbered 176913 people according to the Lithuanian census of 2011 or 5.8% of the total population of Lithuania.First small early East Slavic settlements in what is now Lithuania date back to late medieval ages when the first proto-Russian merchants and craftsmen began to permanently reside in several Lithuanian towns.
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