Putin is Russian Orthodox.
There are five religions that are recognized as official, historically Russian religions and thus have state support: Russian Orthodoxy, Buddhism (manlyy Lamaism, I believe), Judaism, Islam, and (counting them all as one religion) the various shamanistic/pagan religions of the Siberian peoples.
I remember there was a hubbub a few years ago when they introduced Orthodox Culture into the school curriculum. I don't know how that originally panned out (or even what the actual content of the course was).
--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
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> As I understand it, Putin is Russian Orthodox, as
> was Yeltsin.
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> I am sure that Chris Doss can speak to this
> question better than any of us, but I believe
> that since the collapse of the Soviet Union,
> Russian Orthodoxy has acquired a kind of
> semi-official status in relation to the state.
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> > Charles
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