According to human rights activists, the majority of those wishing to undergo the ACS are Jehovah's Witnesses.
Izvestia cites data from human rights activists on a reduction in the number of people wishing to perform alternative civilian service. If in the fall of 2004 about 1,500 applications for the passage of the ACS were submitted, in the spring of 2005 - about 600, then this autumn only 400 people expressed such a desire. In total, no more than 1,500 thousand people are undergoing ACS today, according to the "Coalition for Democratic ACS".