Romanian diaspora in the Russian Federation in light of the 2010 and 2020 population censuses

Among the 27 member states of the European Union, Romania has the second largest kin-minority in the Russian Federation. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, the Romanian diaspora in Russia recorded the largest quantitative decrease after World War II, making it increasingly difficult to organize it and preserve its cultural-linguistic identity, given the absence of any important support from the Romanian kin-state. Hardly known in their ethnic homeland, Romanians in Russia do not have national institutions (schools teaching in Romanian, churches, press), being subjected to an intense process of acculturation and denationalization, gradually melting into the Russian mass or preferring to emigrate abroad.