Russians in Lebanon (Paperback, UK ed.)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There are 36,218 registered Russians living in Lebanon. Most moving from neighboring Israel. All of which live in Beirut. Several Russians stores and restraints where built in the past five years. The term Russian diaspora refers to the global community of ethnic Russians, usually more specifically those who maintain some kind of connection, even if ephemeral, to the land of their ancestors and maintain their feeling of Russian national identity within a local community. The term "Russian speaking (Russophone) diaspora" ( ) is used to describe people for whom Russian language is the native language regardless whether they are ethnic Russians or Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, Chechens etc.