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According to the ''[[Moscow Times]]'', "Using data from surveys carried out by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2018, the sociologist Yana Roshchina worked out that while almost 81 percent of adult Russians consider themselves Orthodox, this is often a declaration of identity rather than faith. Just 6 percent of the population and 43 percent of believers go to church several times a month. According to Interior Ministry statistics, 4.3 million people across the country attended Easter services in 2019 – around 100,000 fewer than a year before."<ref>[https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/29/russians-are-not-waiting-for-a-church-boom-a65792 Russians Are Not Waiting for a Church Boom], 2019</ref> The ''Moscow Times'' has been banned from [[Russia]] as a foreign agent.

According to the ''[[Moscow Times]]'', "Using data from surveys carried out by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow in 2018, the sociologist Yana Roshchina worked out that while almost 81 percent of adult Russians consider themselves Orthodox, this is often a declaration of identity rather than faith. Just 6 percent of the population and 43 percent of believers go to church several times a month. According to Interior Ministry statistics, 4.3 million people across the country attended Easter services in 2019 – around 100,000 fewer than a year before."<ref>[https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/29/russians-are-not-waiting-for-a-church-boom-a65792 Russians Are Not Waiting for a Church Boom], 2019</ref> On 15 April 2022, the Russian-language website of ''The Moscow Times'' was blocked in Russia.<ref name="TheMoscowBlocked" /><ref name="RferlMoscowBlocked" /> In 2023, the [[Ministry of Justice (Russia)|Ministry of Justice of Russia]] designated the paper as a [[Russian foreign agent law|foreign agent]].<ref name="Reuters">{{Cite news |date=18 November 2023 |title=Russia designates The Moscow Times newspaper a 'foreign agent' |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-designates-moscow-times-newspaper-foreign-agent-2023-11-18/ |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref> On 10 July 2024, the office of the Russian Prosecutor General announced that the newspaper was declared an [[undesirable organization]].<ref>[https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/10/genprokuratura-rf-ob-yavila-izdanie-the-moscow-times-nezhelatelnoy-organizatsiey Генпрокуратура РФ объявила издание The Moscow Times «нежелательной» организацией]</ref>

[[File:Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow July 2011-7a.jpg|thumbnail|350px|Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] ]]

[[File:Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow July 2011-7a.jpg|thumbnail|350px|Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] ]]