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Confronted with [[Economy of Moldova|economic]] instability, collapsing incomes, and rapidly rising unemployment that accompanied the [[fall of the Soviet Union]], people began emigrating from [[Moldova]] on a large scale in the first half of the 1990s. The [[Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova]] has estimated that over 1,200,000 to 2,000,000 Moldovan citizens (almostover 4525% of a population of some 3.6 million) are working abroad. [[Russia]] (especially the [[Moscow]] region), [[Italy]], [[Ukraine]], [[Romania]], [[France]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Greece]], [[Turkey]], and [[Israel]] are the main destinations.

Due to the clandestine nature of these migration flows, however, no official statistics exist. Some 500,000 Moldovans are thought to be working in Russia, mainly in construction. Another estimate puts the number of Moldovans in Italy at 500,000. Moldovan citizens are drawn toward countries that speak their language or a similar one, such as Romanians to [[Romance languages|Romance-speaking]] countries, Russians and Ukrainians to Russia or Ukraine, or the [[Turkic languages|Turkic-speaking]] Gagauz to Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.outreachworld.org/Files/u_texas/Decision-Activity_Russia.pdf |title=Understanding Migration, Emigration from Moldova |access-date=2010-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514225142/http://www.outreachworld.org/Files/u_texas/Decision-Activity_Russia.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>