The Altai prosecutor's office became interested in the activities of local pagans - opponents of the spread of Buddhism in the region
In January, IA REGNUM , citing the Altai weekly Listok, reported that on December 25, 2006, in the village of Karakol, Ongudaysky district of the Altai Republic, a search was carried out in the premises of the newly created newspaper Amadu Altai and in the homes of three members of the so-called Karakol group ( "a group of residents of the Karakol valley, professing a local variety of Altai paganism," the agency explains).