That is due partly to ethnic Russians returning to the motherland after the break-up of the Soviet Union, but also to Tajiks, Georgians, Moldovans and other non-Slav citizens of ex-Soviet republics moving to Russia in search of work.
Hungary is nowhere near the lows of ex-Soviet states.
"Some want to join the EU tomorrow," he said of ex-Soviet states.
But the experience of ex-Soviet republics suggests that mass protest by a courageous crowd won't always work.
Some producers closed down; others fought for survival in a diminished export market of ex-Soviet republics and Georgian emigrants.Things are improving.
Most of the Balkans, chunks of ex-Soviet Central Asia and the southern rim of Russia itself, including Chechnya, have blown up.
In 1979, he set up the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, which has helped bring a number of ex-Soviet playwrights and directors here — Pyotr Fomenko, Lev Dodin, Rezo Gabriadze.
But as the police investigate, and activists like Mr. Siegel campaign, Brooklyn's vast population of ex-Soviet residents has kept almost silent.
It will see its future as lying alongside Poland and Germany inside the EU and Nato – not alongside Russia and Belarus in Mr Putin's projected union of ex-Soviet republics.
Some 1.3 billion people are crowded into China, whereas the whole of ex-Soviet Central Asia has only 60m.In this section The incredible shrinking country The emperor is not always obeyed Fear of the dragon A backward cast of mind?
Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, is toying with staying in power as prime minister once his term expires, dismaying some Western fans who saw in him a challenge to the eternal rule of ex-Soviet autocrats such as Russia's Vladimir Putin or Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus.
