Counted by russian police, they are present during such events.

It’s about 1% of total population of Russia.

EDIT: found official source

  • cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That seems like a really low number. According to the article it’s almost half the number of people from a few years ago. And even that seems low considering there should be something like >60 million Russians in the ROC.

    1.4 million people is less than 2% of the total number of Russian Orthodox Christians.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Russia

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      1 year ago

      Maybe half of participants from few years ago now are busy with hiding in trenches or being dead?

      Meanwhile state-funded program of building churches instead of schools and polyclinics is still going.