Los que llegaron - Rusos y Ucranianos (25/01/2012)

Russian immigration to Mexico began between 1904 and 1906, when 105 families from the Caucasus region and dissidents of the Russian Orthodox Church petitioned then-President Porfirio Díaz to settle in the Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, to farm the land. They were the Molokans, so named because they practiced the Molokan religion, a word that means "milk drinker." In the early 1990s, another group of Russian immigrants arrived in Baja California. They left their country affected by the lack of employment generated by the economic reforms implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev's government—known as Perestroika—prior to the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. Russian immigration to Mexico is not numerous, but its presence has been very important because it has enriched the country in all areas of science and culture.