Quote Originally Posted by russkayalove
Kazaks are Muslim...so yeah
Actually, Kazakhstan is a fairly equal mix of Christianity, and Islamic. Christianity being the religion that is on the Northern part of Kazak., closest to Russia. If anything, I would guess that a good majority of the Muslems are coming from Mongolia.

Anyways, there is not pure gene pool anywhere in the world anyways. So, sorry to burst your bubble, but no such thing as 100% slav., but true, the gene pool in places in Russia is probably no where near as dirty as the American gene pool.
I would doubt that muslims coming to russia would be from mongolia. For mongolians, there isn't as much opportunity in Russia as there is in china for them, and most of the mongolians are going the other way for business, traveling to china back and forth. They buy fake designer clothing and sell it in Mongolia. Very little of these same products were for sale in Russia in the neighboring cities of Ulan Ude and Irkutsk or Chita. At least not on the same level as it was sold in Ulan Bator. Mongolians need visas for Russia, not for china. Mongolia is a sparse country in population with tons of land, so Mongolians arent really looking to move into Russia. Also, I believe the main religion in Mongolia is buddhist and not muslim. Not sure about the western parts of mongolia, however. Still the people in the west will be herders, and not particularly interested in immigration to Russia.

Chinese on the other hand are moving across the border more, as China is overpopulated. In addition, Russian cities along the borders frequently employ chinese for some jobs. When I was in Ulan Ude this summer, the Chinese totally rebuilt the main street into a pedestrian street in time for their city's anniversary. It was much cheaper to employ them. People were saying it was also a lot cheaper to buy lumber and trees in Russia. One of the things I found interesting/really funny was that whenever there was a forest fire, the russians would suspect that chinese people had set it to burn down the forest to scrap the wood, because it was cheaper for damaged lumber. Probably about 10 people said this, and weren't kidding.

Also, there seems to be a fairly large business investment by koreans and some japanese in the far east, but nothing that would make a huge population shift.