30% of the Orthodox believe that there is no God

The Levada Center presented the results of surveys on the topic of religiosity of Russians in the Moscow Center of Carnegie.

According to the results of many years of polls, Russia has the lowest level of church attendance among 15 studied countries in Europe and America. To date, the total number of Russians who call themselves Orthodox believers reaches 70%. At the same time, according to studies, about 80% of the Orthodox are not in the sacrament, and 90% recognize that they do not take any participation in the activities of the church. Specialists of the Levada Center believe that people who call themselves Orthodox do this out of the desire to be involved in the team, which is the church.

Among the Orthodox believers, women and older people, who, are usually not very high level of education and living outside large cities, prevail. However, the largest influx of new Orthodox comes from an environment of youth, people with higher education, men. However, according to the experts of Levada, the growth of the number of Orthodox does not indicate the real religious revival of the country.

In the course of the study, the sociologists of the Levada Center came to the conclusion that most of the Russian population perceives the Russian Orthodox Church as an integral institution of state power-a kind of political party serving power and extracting their own benefits in interaction with power structures.