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Czech wedding guests in Nova Vesi, near Srbac, 1934. The Czech diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from the Czech Republic, as well as from the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech lands (including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). The country with the largest number of Czechs living abroad is the United States.
Rusyns and Ukrainians in Czechoslovakia during the period from 1918 to 1938, were ethnic Rusyns and Ukrainians of the First Czechoslovak Republic, representing the two main ethnic communities in the most eastern region of Czechoslovakia, known during that period as the Subcarpathian Rus.
Russian lost its status as the official lingua franca of Turkmenistan in 1996. [32] According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 150,000 native speakers of Russian in the country and 100,000 active speakers. [33] Russian is spoken by 12% of the population, according to an undated estimate from the World Factbook. [35]
The Czechs (Czech: Češi, pronounced [ˈtʃɛʃɪ]; singular Czech, masculine: Čech ⓘ, singular feminine: Češka [ˈtʃɛʃka]), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic [16] in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
Between 1868 and 1880, almost 16,000 Czechs left Austria-Hungary for the Russian Empire.The reasons for their departure were the difficult living conditions in the Czech lands, and the rumors of prosperity in the Russian realm, where there was a large amount of unused agricultural land.
Czech Republic–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation.Relations have substantially deteriorated in recent years due to events such as the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russian sabotage of Czech ammunition depot in Vrbětice in 2014, poisoning of Sergei Skripal in 2018 and Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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The Russian diaspora is the global community of ethnic Russians. ... Protest of Russians living in the Czech Republic against the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.