Ethnic cleansings and genocides committed by Russia

Incomplete list.

| Date | Event | Victims | |-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | 1785 – 2017 | Chechen genocide | 500,000 – 900,000 deaths | | 1800 – 1870 | Circassian genocide | 1,500,000 – 2,000,000 deaths | | 1850s – ongoing | Cultural genocide by Russification in colonized areas | Hard to estimate. Millions, with many minority cultures lost | | 1920s – 1930s | Genocide of the Ingrian Finns | Ingrian population reduced from 140,000 – 160,000 before the persecution to 19,000 today | | 1920s – ??? | Ethnic cleansings on the Kola Peninsula | Nordic population of the Kola peninsula dropped from 20% to 0.2% | | 1930 – 1952 | Cultural genocide by forced migration in the Soviet Union | 6,000,000 deported, forcibly relocated | | 1932 – 1933 | Genocide of Ukrainians in the Holodomor | 3,800,000 – 5,300,000 deaths | | 2015 – 2024? | Syrian, Russian forces carrying out ethnic cleansing around Aleppo, Turkmen accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing in Syria air strikes | Tens of thousands displaced and/or dead | | 2014 – ongoing | Genocide in the current Ukraine war | ??? | | 2023 – ongoing | Pogroms in the Caucasus | ??? |