What is Roma people in Russia?
According to the 2010 national census, there were 204,958 [[Romani people]] living in the Russian Federation. Roma gypsies migrated to Russia in three main waves beginning at the late fifteenth century. In the mid-1920s Roma gypsies were classified as a national minority of Indian origin and policies in Russia were developed to assimilate them. In the 1930s many Roma were deported to [[Siberia]]. Russian Soviet Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] decreed that Roma must be settled in 1959.<ref>[https://minorityrights.org/minorities/roma-15/ Roma - Minority Rights Group]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Roma]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in Russia]]