Counted by russian police, they are present during such events.
It’s about 1% of total population of Russia.
EDIT: found official source
Mods, I found official police source. Should I replace URL? Official source don’t show historic data though.
For some reason I forgot to add that it was during christmas. This probably confused a lot of people.
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.
The rest may have visited God in another way
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.
