Non-Russian Share Of Russia’s Population May Soon Be Not The 22 Percent Moscow Claims But Twice That – OpEd

Many observers have noticed that in the course of Putin’s war in Ukraine, ever more non-Russians, at least some of whom were counted by Moscow as assimilated and thus Russian, have chosen to proudly declare themselves “not Russian” (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/10/at-end-of-soviet-times-non-russians.html).

At the...