Among Russian prisoners, 12.5 thousand people profess Orthodoxy
On May 29, at a press conference in Moscow, Vitaly Polozyuk, head of the department for social, psychological and educational work with convicts of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, said that at present, about 12.5 thousand people profess Orthodoxy among Russian prisoners, and this figure is constantly growing .