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
AuthorKelsey Dallas
PublisherDeseret News
Publication Year2017
URLhttps://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/
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
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. Cross-Tradition Connections
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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..."
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..."
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Denominations, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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