Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population. One of the Grand Muftis of Russia, sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin, estimated the Muslim population of Russia at 25 million in 2018.
According to a 2012 survey held in Russia by Sreda Arena, 66,840,000 people in the country (47.4% of the total population) identify as Christians.
This includes:
41.1%—58,800,000 members of the Russian Orthodox Church;
4.1%—5,900,000 people identifying as Christians without belonging to any church;
1.5%—2,100,000 people believing in Orthodox Christianity without belonging to any Orthodox church or belonging to non-Russian churches;
0.3%—400,000 Old Believers;
0.2%—300,000 Protestants;
0.1%—140,000 members of the Catholic Church;
0.1%—140,000 Pentecostals
Ritter repeatedly stated that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Because of the prevailing political climate in the United States at the time, Ritter was widely condemned for this position, which later proved to be largely accurate.