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Russia Is "Much More Religious" Than It Was 25 Years Ago. So Why Is Religious Freedom Under Attack?

Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News, May 11, 2017

A May 11, 2017 Deseret News article by Kelsey Dallas covering the Pew Research Center's newly released Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe report, stating that seven in ten Russian adults called themselves Orthodox Christian at the time of the report's 2015-16 survey fieldwork, compared to 37 percent in 1991, and that only 6 percent of Orthodox Christian Russians report attending church weekly.

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Citation
Author
Kelsey Dallas
Publisher
Deseret News
Publication Year
2017
URL
https://www.deseret.com/2017/5/11/20612108/russia-is-much-more-religious-than-it-was-25-years-ago-so-why-is-religious-freedom-under-attack/
Source Type
news
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
A named-author news article, published the day after the Pew Research Center's May 10, 2017 CEUP report it covers, reporting that report's own paired comparison (37 percent of Russians identifying as Orthodox Christian in 1991 against 71 percent in the report's 2015-16 survey) in a direct quote rather than a paraphrase. The same reporting-on-a-named-Pew-survey standing already given to UU World's coverage of Pew's 2007 Religious Landscape Survey elsewhere on this axis.
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Eastern Europe, Regions

This source names Eastern Europe directly: "and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe report, stating that seven in ten Russian adults called themselves Orthodox Christian at the time of the report's 2015-16 survey fieldwork..."

Source Russia Is "Much More Religious" Than It Was 25 Years Ago. So Why Is Religious Freedom Under Attack?Kelsey Dallas
Europe, Continents

This source names Europe directly: "Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe report, stating that seven in ten Russian adults called themselves Orthodox Christian at the time of the report's 2015-16 survey fieldwork, compared to 37..."

Source Russia Is "Much More Religious" Than It Was 25 Years Ago. So Why Is Religious Freedom Under Attack?Kelsey Dallas
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)

This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Denominations, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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