The Moldovans in Russia consists of two major parts: Russian citizens and labor migrants (gastarbeiters).
[2] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 544 ethnic Romanians born in Russia lived in the United States in 2015.
[3] The head of the diaspora is Alexandr Kalinin the leader of the Party of Regions of Moldova.
[4] In Russia, he heads the Congress of Moldovan Diasporas (Конгресс Молдавских Диаспор) established in 2009.
Alexandr Kalinin commented that this move looked like an attempt to boost the election performance of the then Moldovan President Igor Dodon.