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I'm pretty sure that if it says "cigan(ka)" on her birth certificate in Russian, it can only refer to "Gypsy" - i.e., Romani -- ethnicity. There are various loose uses of the word Gypsy/gypsy in some languages, but the Russian system of identification is organized around "nationalities," or ethnic groups. They would not use the term metaphorically. Whereas most Roma around the world are dark-skinned, there is a significant number of light-skinned people among us, and Russia has one of the highest proportions of light-skinned Roma (a great resource on Russian Roma, by the way, that addresses some of these issues, is Alaina Lemon's Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism). As for the ethnonym, Roma is what we call ourselves in the Romani language, and Gypsy/cigan/Gitano/Zigeuner/etc. is what non-Roma tend to call us. But your daughter is almost certainly of Romani descent.