Russia's ethnic cleansing
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https://cepa.org/article/behind-the-lines-russias-ethnic-cleansing/
The Russian strategy is to saturate occupied Ukraine with other ethnicities and blur the Ukrainian identity. The Kremlin has sent a lot of workers to Mariupol, particularly Russian indigenous peoples, including Buryats, Tuvans, representatives of Caucasian nationalities, and people from Central Asia.
Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol and exiled resident of the city, said that, as well as displacing Ukrainians and providing a workforce, Russia was moving out people it didn’t want in its cities. “Moscow and St. Petersburg breathed out a sigh of relief,” he said.
Around 40,000 people have relocated to Mariupol, encouraged by promises of higher salaries, according to Andriushchenko. The average pay for construction work is 230,000 rubles ($2,550) a month, he explained. “There are no such salaries in Russia now. That’s why they go to Mariupol,” he said. “At first, Mariupol residents were hired for construction work, now they’re not.”
The shift in population is happening so fast that, if the city is not liberated, 80% of its population will be Russian within five years, he added.
There are hundreds of similar stories across the occupied territories. In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, doctors from Murmansk have been brought in to treat patients at the Primorsk District Hospital, while workers from the Chuvash Republic are repairing damaged buildings in the village of Osypenko. In Luhansk Oblast, the occupiers have provided Russian citizens with immediate accommodation, employment, and affordable loans for the purchase of housing.
I'm sure that it's the same in other former Soviet nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_the_Baltic_states
Lithuanian Russians live mainly in cities. In the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, they make up less than 10% of the population, in Lithuania's third largest city Klaipėda less than 20%. Other Lithuanian cities, including the second-largest city Kaunas, have lower percentages of Russians, while in most small towns and villages there are very few Russians (with the exception of Visaginas). In all, 5% of Lithuania's population are ethnic Russians.[11]
Russians make up around one third of the population of Latvia's capital, Riga. In the second largest city Daugavpils, where already before World War I Russians were the second biggest ethnic group after Jews,[12] Russians now make up the majority. Today about 25% of Latvia's population are ethnic Russians.
In Estonia, Russians are concentrated in urban areas, particularly in Tallinn and the north-eastern county of Ida-Virumaa. As of 2011, 38.5% of Tallinn's population were ethnic Russians and an even higher number – 46.7% spoke Russian as their mother tongue.[13] In 2011, large proportions of ethnic Russians were found in Narva (82%),[14] Sillamäe (about 82%)[15] and Kohtla-Järve (70%). In the second largest city of Estonia – Tartu – ethnic Russians constitute about 16% of the population.[16] In rural areas the proportion of ethnic Russians is very low (13 of Estonia's 15 counties are over 80% ethnic Estonian). Overall, ethnic Russians make up 24% of Estonia's population (the proportion of Russophones is, however, somewhat higher, because Russian is the mother tongue of many ethnic Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews who live in the country).
