The Wikipedia article on Buddhism in Russia, stating that as of a 2025 survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), approximately 1.4 million people, about 1.0 percent of Russia's population, identified as Buddhist, concentrated in the traditionally Buddhist republics of Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva, all practicing Buddhism predominantly in its Tibetan (Gelug) form.
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Tertiary reference compiling the Russian Public Opinion Research Center's (VCIOM) 2025 survey finding rather than the primary survey release itself; the same one-remove standing already given to other national survey compilations on this axis. Citation
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia
Source Typeencyclopedia
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