Official recognition: He also noted that Islam was declared as the state religion in one of the states located in the territory of present-day Russia in the Volga Bulgaria, in 922, which was 66 years earlier than the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity as the state religion of Kievan Rus. [112], Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia, Saint Petersburg, the cultural capital and the second-largest city. Islam was repressed and made Communist-friendly in the Soviet era. Islam is the second largest religion in Russia after Russian Orthodoxy. 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Various Russian, Caucasus, and Western historians agree on the figure of c. 500,000 inhabitants of the highland Caucasus being deported by Russia in the 1860s. (ed.). [60] Obesity is a prevalent health issue in Russia; 61.1% of Russian adults were overweight or obese in 2016. Among the top 500 volleyball players in the world, she is training to help Egypt's beach volleyball team qualify for a second time in the 2024 Olympics, with new teammate Farida El Askalany. The total Land Area of Russia is 16,377,742 sq. [76] The III International Conference on Hajj Management attended by some 170 delegates from 12 counties was held in Kazan from 7 9 July 2011. The first Muslim state in the future Russian lands was Volga Bulgaria[15] ", "Total Fertility Rate around the world over the last centuries", ". . . The changing demographics mean that dozens of new mosques will need to be built in Russias largest cities, Gainutdin said at a forum hosted by the State Duma on Monday. [110] The oldest and largest universities in Russia are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. [65] Aslan Maskhadov's government was unable to rebuild the region or to prevent a number of warlords from taking effective control. Moscow has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with estimates suggesting . For example, the Mrcani Mosque was the only acting mosque in Kazan at that[when?] In his 1985 analysis Mystics and Commissars, S. Enders Wimbush wrote: Members of Sufi brotherhoods were hunted as criminalsThey were accused of immutable hostility towards the Soviet regime or economic sabotage, banditsim, terrorism, and armed rebellion.. [83] The mayor of Moscow claims that four mosques are sufficient for the population. The number of Muslims allowed to make pilgrimages to Mecca increased sharply after the virtual embargo of the Soviet era ended in 1990. Muslims are followers of the religion Islam, who believe in and live by the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. Johnny B says Nov 6, 2021 at 11:13 am "Blacklock's Reporter says the Muslim population as a portion of the entire country has more than tripled since 1996 but remains outnumbered 9 to 1 by Catholics." More than 90% of Muslims in Russia adhere to the Sunni Islam. Russia is among the world's most educated countries, and has the third-highest proportion of tertiary-level graduates in terms of percentage of population, at 62%. ", "Are Russia's 20 million Muslims seething about Putin bombing Syria? Within each state, excluding, say, 3 or 5 richest districts, rest should get them in proportion to their population. The response of violent mortality to economic crisis in Russia. India in numbers India now has 966.3 million Hindus,. According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the third-largest in the world, numbering over 11.6 million in 2016;[18] most of which are from post-Soviet states, mainly Ukrainians. The current population of the Russian Federation is 146,093,083 as of Tuesday, January 17, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. In the earyly 2000s, Russian newspaper ran pictures of local Muslim leaders next to pictures of Osama bin Laden. Living in the country today are more than 20 million Muslims, including members of more than 30 indigenous Russian nations," according to Talib Saidbaev, advisor to the Head Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia. [77], For centuries, the Tatars constituted the only Muslim ethnic group in European Russia, with Tatar language being the only language used in their mosques, a situation which saw rapid change over the course of the 20th century as a large number of Caucasian and Central Asian Muslims migrated to central Russian cities and began attending Tatar-speaking mosques, generating pressure on the imams of such mosques to begin using Russian. ", "Russia's population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline, analysis shows", "Fertility rate, total (births per woman) - Russian Federation", "Mapped: Which country has the most immigrants? Europe has lost almost 60% of its Jewish population over the past 50 years, mainly as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union after which many Jews . The rector of the madrasah Ilyas hazrat Ziganshin and the first deputy head of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of the Tatars Mars Tukaev also took part in the meeting. [87] The constitution allows the country's individual republics the right to establish their own state languages in addition to Russian, as well as guarantee its citizens the right to preserve their native language and to create conditions for its study and development. A large proportion of them died in transit from disease. The Sreda Arena Atlas 2012 did not count the populations of two Muslim-majority federal subjects of Russia, namely. [57][58][59][60], Islam has been expanding under Putin's rule. [104] It grants free education to its citizens under its constitution. . While the Muslim population will grow faster than the non-Muslim population over the next 20 years, the population's rate of growth will be . Russia was the world's fifth-leading destination for international students in 2019, hosting roughly 300,000. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *], There is much evidence of official conciliation toward Islam in Russia in the 1990s. In Muslim areas the slogan was; "There is no God, and Lenin is his prophet. There was much evidence of official conciliation toward Islam in Russia in the 1990s. The struggle to delineate the respective powers of the federal and local governments in Russia also has influenced Russian relations with the Islamic community. The Tatars of the Khanate of Kazan inherited the population of believers from that state. The nation of 1.4 . [88] However, various experts have claimed Russia's linguistic diversity is rapidly declining.[89][90]. [47] In the middle Volga Basin are large populations of Tatars, Udmurts, and Chuvash, most of whom are Muslims. In total, Muslims will make up about 26 percent of the world's population, an increase of about 3 percent from today's level. Composition: The majority of Russian Muslims are Sunnis of Hanafi school of thought but there are also some Sunnis of Shafii school and Shia, Gaynetdin said. Russian girls were legally allowed to be sold in Russian-controlled Novgorod to Tatars from Kazan in the 1600s by Russian law. Its too late, he told the Govorit Moskva radio station when asked if the demographic trend could be reversed. [67], At the end of the Second Chechen War, in 2005, Chechen rebel leader, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, decreed the formation of a Caucasus Front against Russia, among Islamic believers in the North Caucasus, in an attempt to widen Chechnya's conflict with Russia. [20][21] However, Russian policy shifted toward weakening Islam by introducing pre-Islamic elements of collective consciousness. They bring their dirty culture here.. How many Muslims are there in each European country? Police routinely stop people suspected as being from the Caucasus on the streets and extract a bride even when all their papers are in order. [100], Islam is the second-largest religion in Russia, and it is the traditional religion amongst most peoples of the North Caucasus, and amongst some Turkic peoples scattered along the Volga-Ural region. The relationship between the government and radicals deteriorated. Many Muslims also reside in Ul'yanovsk, Samara, Nizhniy Novgorod, Moscow, Perm', and Leningrad oblasts. He said the number of Muslims was also mentioned in the population census. [39][40], Since the collapse of the USSR, most immigrants have come from Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, from poor areas of China, and from Vietnam and Laos[41], Temporary migrant workers in Russia consists of about 7 million people, most of the temporary workers come from Central Asia (mostly from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan), South Caucasus (mostly from Armenia and Azerbaijan), East Asia (mostly from poor areas of China, from Vietnam and Laos). In Russia, we have this problemwe are always looking for an enemy. [64], In 1991, Chechnya declared independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In 1996 the Muslim population of Russia was estimated at 19 percent of all citizens professing belief in a religion. [54], Russia spent 5.32% of its GDP on healthcare in 2018. Since Soviet times, the Russian government has divided Russia into a number of Muslim Spiritual Directorates. . The Russian Muslim Spiritual Administration's advisory council pointed to absolutely different worldviews, cultures and education.. Muslims in India - With over 209 million followers (2021), Islam is the second-largest religion in India after Hinduism. [79] There are 22 republics in Russia, who have their own ethnicities, cultures, and languages. "Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security", pg. Note: Crude migration change (per 1000) is a trend analysis, an extrapolation, based the calculation average population change (current year minus previous) minus natural change of the current year (see table vital statistics). In fertility rates, 2.1 and above is a stable population and has been marked blue, 2 and below leads to an aging population and the result is that the population decreases. On the same day an 18-year-old Chechen was stabbed to death by skinheads outside the Kremlin. I dont consider them human. Brill, 2001. [33] In August 2012, as the country saw its first demographic growth since the 1990s, President Putin declared that Russia's population could reach 146 million by 2025, mainly as a result of immigration. [citation needed] Due to overwhelming demand from Russian Muslims, on 5 July 2011, Muftis requested President Dmitry Medvedev's assistance in increasing the allocated by Saudi Arabia pilgrimage quota in Vladikavkaz. [12] Moscow, the capital and largest city, has a population estimated at 12.4 million residents within the city limits,[113] while over 17 million residents in the urban area,[114] and over 20 million residents in the metropolitan area. [73] The Azeris have also historically and still currently been nominally followers of Shi'a Islam, as their republic split off from the Soviet Union, significant number of Azeris immigrated to Russia in search of work. [61] However, Russia's historically high alcohol consumption rate is the biggest health issue in the country,[62][63] as it remains one of the world's highest, despite a stark decrease in the last decade. Gavrilova, N.S., Semyonova, V.G., Evdokushkina G.N., Gavrilov, L.A. The entry for religion was included in the UK census in 2001. . Many other Caucasian Muslims ended up in neighboring Iran - sizeable numbers of Shia Lezgins, Azerbaijanis, Muslim Georgians, Kabardins, and Laks. [17] Until the late 18th century, the Crimean Tatars maintained a massive slave-trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting about 2 million slaves from Russia and Ukraine over the period 15001700.[18]. . The number of Muslims is increasing, in part because their birthrate is higher. 3 Historical Muslim population 4 See also 5 References By region [ edit] World [ edit] The six fastest-growing religions in the world are estimated to be Islam (1.84%), the Bah Faith (1.70%), Sikhism (1.62%), Jainism (1.57%), Hinduism (1.52%), and Christianity (1.38%), with high birth rates being cited as the major reason. [108], Russia has compulsory education for a duration of 11 years, exclusively for children aged 7 to 1718. [56] Russia has one of the world's most female-biased sex ratios, with 0.859 males to every female,[12] due to its high male mortality rate. In Moscow, there is the Council of Muftis of Russia. They incite the crowd. 2005. Many mosques (for some estimates,[50] more than 83% in Tatarstan) were closed. [9] It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 per square mile). Hence in communal riots the police, which is 98% . [5], Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government. The 1952 Constitution grants freedom of religion while . A separate private health insurance plan is needed to access private healthcare in Russia. [26] Cossack rank was awarded to Bashkirs. Its Muslim population is expected to rise from 16.4 million in 2010 to 18.6 million in 2030. Growth factors: Now 25 million people strong, Gaynetdin attributed the growth in Muslim population two main factors: the high birth rate among Muslim families, and throughthe arrival of people from Central Asia. [82] The city has permitted the existence of four mosques. The population identifying as Christian dropped from 59% in 2011 to 46% this time, mainly due to the people with no religion . Robert Crews's study of Muslims living under the Tsar indicates that "the mass of Muslims" was loyal to that regime after Catherine, and sided with it over its Ottoman rival. [106] An additional two or three years of schooling are required for the secondary-level certificate, and some seven-eighths of Russians continue their education past this level. BY FOYASAL KHAN JAN 06, 2023 - DAILY SABAH This illustration shows the main events, especially in politics, sports and climate change, in the Muslim Egypt's 26-year-old Doaa Elghobashy continues to trailblaze on her own terms. [23] The government of Russia paid Islamic scholars from the Ural-Volga area working among the Kazakhs[24], Islamic slavery did not have racial restrictions. Demographers estimate Russia's Islamic community may account for a majority of the nation's population by mid-century. [59], The principal cause of death in Russia are cardiovascular diseases. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, had a population of 147.2 million according to the 2021 census,[1] or 144.7 million when excluding Crimea and Sevastopol,[a] up from 142.8 million in the 2010 census. According to a comprehensive survey conducted in 2012, Muslims were 6.5% of Russia's population. [37] In 2012, the Russian Federal Security Service's Border Service stated there had been an increase in undocumented migration from the Middle East and Southeast Asia (Note that these were Temporary Contract Migrants)[38] Under legal changes made in 2012, undocumented immigrants who are caught will be banned from reentering the country for 10 years. The number of people following Islam in England and Wales rose 44%, from 2.7 million in 2011 to 3.9 million in 2021. Shireen Tahmasseb Hunter, Jeffrey L. Thomas, Alexander Melikishvili. [49], Russia has encouraged or even forced people in occupied or annexed regions to become Russian citizens, a procedure known as passportization. Gavrilova, N.S., Gavrilov, L.A., Semyonova, V.G., Evdokushkina, G.N., Ivanova, A.E. Christianity is becoming a religion of the past; Islam appears that of the future. Although history of Islam religion in India dates back to 12th century, the nation is currently home to over 10% of the world's Muslim population. [35][36], There are an estimated four million undocumented immigrants from the ex-Soviet states in Russia. The Muslim Spiritual Authority is in the city of Ufa. Questions or comments, e-mail ajhays98@yahoo.com, Minorities - Muslims, Jews and Old Believers. [4][5] However, the populations of two federal subjects with Islamic majorities were not surveyed due to social unrest, which together had a population of nearly 2 million, namely Chechnya and Ingushetia,[6] thus the total number of Muslims may be slightly larger. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni (85%), with Shia making up 13% of the population. Money from the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, has financed the building of mosques and helped Russian Muslims to become better organized. According to Mufti Ravil Gaynutdin, chairman of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, there were 25 million Muslims in 2018, approximately 18 percent of the population. Chechens are arguably the most hated people in Russia. Population Research and Policy Review, 2008, 27: 551574. [35] Arrows, bows, and melee combat weapons were wielded by the Muslim Bashkirs. The Muslim population in the United States is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a new Pew Forum report. In 2021, while economies were on the road to recovery, the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, which began in the first quarter of 2022, put the world economy in jeopardy once again. 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Published by Statista Research Department , Dec 14, 2022 The size of the Russian population was estimated to have decreased by approximately 693 thousand between 2021 and 2022. 100 (18111913 .). [18], Demographic statistics according to the latest Rosstat vital statistics[19] and the World Population Review in 2019. Predicting a Majority-Muslim Russia. According to experts, Russias [Muslim] population will increase to 30 percent in a decade and a half, said Ravil Gainutdin, the chairman of the Council of Muftis, a religious group representing Russias Muslim community. This contrasted with other places in Europe outside Russia where Muslims were not allowed to own Christians. There are over 5,000 registered Muslim communities in Russia. Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield Publ., Inc, 117145. Russian data includes occupied Crimea and Sevastopol starting in 2014, Ethnic groups in Russia of more than 1 million people in 2010, Percentage of ethnic Russians by region in 2010. The post-communist union has formed a political party, the Nur All-Russia Muslim Public Movement, which acts in close coordination with Muslim clergy to defend the political, economic, and cultural rights of Muslims and other minorities. However, the populations of two federal subjects with Islamic majorities were not surveyed due to social unrest, which together had a population of nearly 2 million, namely Chechn Muslims are the second largest community after Hindus forming 14.6% of the total population in Republic of India. Before 1649 Russians could be sold to Muslims under Russian law in Moscow. 21 May] 1864. [107] It spent roughly 4.7% of its GDP on education in 2018. A census in 2002 counted 14.5 million while Russian Muslim leaders claim there are 23 million. Percentage of Muslims in Russia by region: According to the 2010 Russian census, Moscow has less than 300,000 permanent residents of Muslim background, while some estimates suggest that Moscow has around 1 million Muslim residents and up to 1.5 million more Muslim migrant workers. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. 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In a poll released in July 2005 by the Pew Research Group, 84 percent of those surveyed said that they were concerned about the rise of Muslim extremism in their country and 72 percent said that they felt that Muslim immigrants wish to remain distinct from their society. [40] Mounted Kalmyks and Bashkirs numbering 100 were available to Russian commandants during the war against Napoleon. Germany and the United Kingdom also have large muslim populations with 4.95 million and 4.13. They primarily live in cities such as Moscow, Sochi and Blagoveshchensk. The Top 10 Countries with the Largest Muslim Populations in the World in 2021 Maldives (100%) Mauritania (99.9%) Somalia (99.8% - tie) Tunisia (99.8% - tie) km of land area)", Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "Migrants Welcome: Is Russia Trying To Solve Its Demographic Crisis By Attracting Foreigners? In the census of 2011, there were 2.7 million Muslims (4.9% of the population). In a recent interview,Gaynetdin has told Anadolu news agency that the Muslim community in Russia is indigenous andcontinues to grow in acceptance with Russias other faiths. The new amendments also ban giving away Russian territory, a possible reference to Crimea. For the first time since the 7th century AD, England is no longer majority-Christian. The growth rate for the Muslim population in Russia is projected to be 0.6% annually over the next two decades. Again, no scope for anti-minority or majority. Low-Growth Muslim population countries will never count more than 10 per cent of Muslim population in the next 200 years. Thus in UP, while the Muslim population is about 18%, the UP police has only about 2% Muslims. Russia for Russians: Some irresponsible politicians want to achieve electoral success by creating nationalist waves., When they say Russia is for Russians, its a mistaken path that could lead to the break-up of the Russian Federation., Also in 2007, Alexander Belov, from the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, said: History is a fight between races and religions., Its the law of nature people are used to being with people like themselves, speaking the language their mothers taught them.. Some Muslim ethnic groups have been among the most resistant minorities to becoming part of unfied Russia. While Muslims in Asia have reached more than two-thirds of the world's Muslim population living on this continent. Muslims will make up 30 percent of Russia's population by 2034, the country's grand mufti said Monday. [97][98] There is some presence of Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism; pagan beliefs are also present to some extent in remote areas, sometimes syncretized with one of the mainstream religions. [68], There was large anger from mostly Muslims from the Caucasus against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in France. [86] Muslim migrants from Central Asia have had an impact on the culture with Samsa becoming one of the most popular take away foods in the city.[87]. *, In 1995 the newly established Union of Muslims of Russia, led by Imam Khatyb Mukaddas of Tatarstan, began organizing a movement aimed at improving interethnic understanding and ending Russians' lingering conception of Islam as an extremist religion. However, like Orthodoxy, Islam was suppressed during the Soviet Union, and many mosques were closed down during this time. Virtually all the Muslims in Russia adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam except for some Shiites in Dagestan. Aside from a desire to evade criminal prosecution for opposing the invasion and fear of being conscripted after president Vladimir Putin's 21 September announcement of partial mobilization, those fleeing voiced reasons such as disagreement with the war, the uselessness and cruelty of the war, sympathy for Ukraine, disagreement with the political roots of the war with Ukraine, the rejection of killing, and an assessment that Russia is no longer the place for their family. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam regained a prestigious, legally recognized space in Russian politics. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *], Representatives attended from several newly independent Central Asian republics, from Azerbaijan, and from several autonomous jurisdictions of Russia, including the secessionist-minded autonomous republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. By the mid-1990s, the putative Islamic threat was a standard justification for radical nationalist insistence that Russia regain control of its "near abroad". Patterns of violent crime in Russia. Sources: Our World In Data and Gapminder Foundation.[22]. [20], Note: Crude migration change (per 1000) is a trend analysis, an extrapolation [21], The total fertility rate is the number of children born to each woman. In 2001, the mainstream Islamic Refakh movement announced it was going to form a new party: the Prosperity Party. The number of mosques dropped from 34,000 in the former Soviet Union before 1917 to 400 afterwards, Under Stalin, Muslim leaded were deported and sent to labor camps. The comments follow the beheading of a French schoolteacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to students. [55] Its healthcare expenditure is notably lower than other developed nations. Aging Populations: Russia/Eastern Europe. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *]. Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, . According to a US State Department release and Pew research group, the population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim. "[63], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Northern Caucasus experienced an Islamic (as well as a national) renaissance. *, Relations between the Russian government and Muslim elements of the population have been marked by mistrust and suspicion. [11] Subsequently, the nation has an ageing population, with the median age of the country being 40.3 years. This wave continues into the present, with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine leading to considerable Russian emigration associated with the invasion. Government fears were fueled by a 1992 conference held in Saratov by the Tajikistan-based Islamic Renaissance Party. Also radical and extremist streams of Islam started taking root, initially in western (upland) Dagestan. In fact, in 2020/2021, 45% of religious hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales were targeted against Muslims. He says that the Khanty-Mansiisk district is "a unique Siberian region" in that about 15 percent of its population consists of Muslims, mostly from the Middle Volga, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Encouraged by the Russian strategy of using the traditional Islamic structures and leaders against the Islamic extremists, there was a process of religious radicalisation in Chechnya and other Northern Caucasus regions. In 2017, a survey made by the Pew Research Center showed that 73% of Russians declared themselves as Christiansout of which 71% were Orthodox, 1% were Catholic, and 2% were Other Christians, while 15% were unaffiliated, 10% were Muslims, and 1% followed other religions. Primary school is compulsory for 11 year-olds, starting from age 6 to 7, and leads to a basic general education certificate. Major Islamic communities are concentrated among the minority nationalities residing between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea: the Adyghs, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Cherkess, Ingush, Kabardins, Karachay, and numerous Dagestani nationalities. A leader of a nationalist group told the Washington Post, They dont wash themselves, they dont clean up, they sleep 10 to 15 in a small room. Saint Petersburg, Russia Population (2023) - Population Stat Saint Petersburg, Russia Population Population in Urban Area, now 5,521,095 World: 76th Europe: 6th Russia: 2nd Population in City Area, 2022-08-17 5,351,935 World: 43rd Europe: 3rd Russia: 2nd Saint Petersburg Urban Area Population Graph [37][38] Napoleon's forces faced off against Kalmyks on horseback. Analysis of excess deaths from official government demographic statistics, based on births and deaths and excluding migration, showed that Russia had its biggest ever annual population drop in peacetime, with the population declining by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021, which demographer Alexei Raksha interpreted as being primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the trend continues, the Muslim population could outnumber ethnic Russians within 30 years. The Muslim community in Russia continues to grow, having reached 25 million, according to the grand mufti of Russia, Sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin. RUSSIA AND EURASIA Today "it is openly said that Russiais not only an Orthodox, but also a Muslim country. XX .). Given the demographic changes, Muslims will represent one third (the downward estimate) and half (the upward estimate) of the Russian population . There are currently 4 mosques in Moscow,[85] and 8,000 in the whole of Russia. [13], Russia is a multinational state,[16] home to over 193 ethnic groups nationwide. Text Sources: Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia, China, edited by Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond (C.K. In 13 of them in 2010, ethnic Russians constitute a minority: Russian is the official and the predominantly spoken language in Russia. Russia will continue to have the largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in Europe in 2030. Russia will continue to have the largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in Europe in 2030. 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The Union of Muslims of Russia is the direct successor to the pre-World War I Union of Muslims, which had its own faction in the Russian Duma. [43] Bashkirs had the military statute of 1874 applied to them. In the 2021 Census, roughly 71.7% of the population were ethnic Russians, 16.7% of the population were ethnic minorities and 11.6% did not state an ethnicity. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *]. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. In the 2021 census, there were 3.9 million Muslims (6.5%): an increase of 44% in just ten years. " Russia's Turning Muslim, Says Mufti " is the startling headline in the Times of London today. "When I was a kid, everything about religion was kept quiet" one Dagestan resident told the Los Angeles Times, "You'd say things like, 'have you washed yet today?' 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