Declining Numbers Of Ukrainians In Occupied Crimea Reflects Re-Identification Rather Than Outmigration – OpEd

The share of residents of Russian-occupied Crimea declaring themselves Ukrainian by nationality fell by almost 50 percent, from 16 percent in the last Ukrainian census to 8.2 percent in the latest Russian one, the result, Natalya Kiselyova says, not so much of outmigration as the reidentification of Ukrainians as Russians.

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