10 November 2003 01:40
Over 14 million Muslims live in Russia
MOSCOW. Nov 10 (Interfax) - About 14.5 million Muslims live in Russia, Nationalities Minister Vladimir Zorin told a
press conference at the Interfax main office, referring to preliminary results of the population census.
"This makes about 10% of the national population," Zorin said.
He said the number of Russian Jews had reduced from 540,000 to 230,000 from the previous census of 1989. Nowadays,
Jews make up 0.2% of the Russian population. The number of Russian Germans has also declined from 840,000 to 600,000
(0.4%).
The number of Russian Ukrainians and Belarussians is down by one- third, while the number of Armenians, Azerbaijanis,
Tajiks and Chechens is up. Armenians and Chechens are among the seven nationalities of Russia that number more than one
million. Meanwhile, Belarussians and Mordovians have fallen out of that category. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG POL] te tl
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