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Цыгане в России (Russian) | |
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| Total population | |
| 204,958 (2010) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Stavropol Kray, the Rostov Oblast, the Krasnodar Kray and the Samara Oblast | |
| Languages | |
| Romani,Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Russian Orthodox |
Romani people in Russia (Russian:Цыгане в России) have been living inRussia since 1500.[1] There are around 204,958Romani people inRussia according to the 2010 national census. In the mid-1920s Romani people in Russia were classified as a national minority of Indian origin and policies in Russia were developed to assimilate them. In the 1930s many Roma from Russia were deported toSiberia. Russian Soviet PremierNikita Khrushchev decreed that Roma must be settled in 1956. There was a cultural revival in the last decades of the Soviet Union when the Moscow Romani theatre was established in Russia.[2] The Roma first arrived in Russia around 1500.[3]
Romani people in Asia | |
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