Mira Milosevich, Russia’s Westpolitik and the European Union, Centro per gli studi strategici e internazionali, 8 luglio 2021.
«In 1992, Yeltsin introduced the term “compatriot abroad” (which was suggested by the analyst Sergey Karaganov) to refer to ethnic Russians who now found themselves outside the formal borders of the Russian Federation but had cultural and linguistic ties with Russia.»