Russians in Finland (or Russian Finns) constitute a linguistic and ethnic minority in Finland. About 27,000 people have citizenship of the Russian Federation, and Russian is the mother language of about 48,000 people in Finland, which represents about 0.8% of the population.
Russians citizens who moved before the Second World War are called "Old Russians". The next immigration wave happened after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, as Ingrian Finns remigrated to Finland. At present, marriage and family ties are two other common reasons for Russians to immigrate Finland.
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