Portraits (7 images)

Across the former Soviet Union it was the people who once represented a diverse country that encompassed 22.4 million square kilometers and spanned almost 10,000 kilometers from Kalinigrad to the Bering Strait. Now these 15 new countries have become more homogeneous than before after hundreds of thousands of ethnic, religious and minority groups voluntarily and forcefully migrated. Some escaped from regional persecution, some fled from conflict zones and some moved back to ethnic...
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Across the former Soviet Union it was the people who once represented a diverse country that encompassed 22.4 million square kilometers and spanned almost 10,000 kilometers from Kalinigrad to the Bering Strait. Now these 15 new countries have become more homogeneous than before after hundreds of thousands of ethnic, religious and minority groups voluntarily and forcefully migrated. Some escaped from regional persecution, some fled from conflict zones and some moved back to ethnic "homelands."
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