Talk:Russian diaspora

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The article contradicts itself. In the first line it says The term Russian diaspora refers to the global community of ethnic Russians. and then it goes on to say The first major wave of Russian emigrants to Australia began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, largely Jews from the Baltic and south west of Russia escaping anti-Semitism. and A significant amount of Russian Jews were permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union beginning with the late 1960's to Israel, sometimes referred to as the third wave (третьая волна). Many of them began arriving from Israel to the United States where they formed several Russian speaking enclaves, such as the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn in New York City. In Russia (just like in all former Soviet Union, Israel etc.) Jews are considered as a separate ethnic group. Are we talking about Russian-speaking or ethnic Russian diaspora here ? The history of ethnic Russian immigration to Anglaphone nations should include the story of Doukhobors, Molokans, White Emigres and Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia rather than the history of Jews escaping anti-Semitism. Fisenko 14:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)