Thread: Religon in your dear country

Originally Posted by patriot

I have a very simple question? Are most russians Orthodox Christians?

thats all folks

christians, yes. slavic people from other countries, like ukraine, can also be catholics. in ukraine half a country is catholic (western part). not roman catholic, but greek catholic. but in general: yes, most of russians are orthodox christians. i assume you are asking about russians, and not former ussr block. because a lot of people there are also muslims, but they are not russians, and as far as i know, they don't like to be called "russians".

Well there are alot of Russian Citizens who are muslim, just take a look in Tartarstan and in the Caucasus...

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Well there are alot of Russian Citizens who are muslim, just take a look in Tartarstan and in the Caucasus...

even though they are citizens of russian federation, but not russians. russians is a nationality. in tatarstan live tatars

Originally Posted by Dusik

even though they are citizens of russian federation, but not russians. russians is a nationality.

Of course "they" are Russians. You may make the distinction within the Russian language between Русский and Россиянин but no such distinction exists within the English language. And arguably, when most people refer to "Russia/Russians" they mean Russia the country, not the ethnicity.

in tatarstan live tatars

Actually you're only partly right. Only about half of Tatarstan is ethnic Tatar -- the other half is ethnic Russian. And there are plenty of Tatars elsewhere in Russia. It's not as if they throw them all in one republic and build a giant fence around it to pen them in. And furthermore, there are plenty of ethnic Russians who have adopted Islam -- your religion isn't mandated by your ethnicity.

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by Dusik

even though they are citizens of russian federation, but not russians. russians is a nationality.

Of course "they" are Russians. You may make the distinction within the Russian language between Русский and Россиянин but no such distinction exists within the English language. And arguably, when most people refer to "Russia/Russians" they mean Russia the country, not the ethnicity.

in tatarstan live tatars

Actually you're only partly right. Only about half of Tatarstan is ethnic Tatar -- the other half is ethnic Russian. And there are plenty of Tatars elsewhere in Russia. It's not as if they throw them all in one republic and build a giant fence around it to pen them in. And furthermore, there are plenty of ethnic Russians who have adopted Islam -- your religion isn't mandated by your ethnicity.

More accurately, English doesn't destinguish between Российский and Русский - Bothe = Russian.

In English Russian includes all citizens of the Russian Federation, whether ethnic Russians, Tatars, Jews, Chechens...