Halloween poll says 6% of Russians believe in aliens

MOSCOW. October 31. KAZINFORM Almost 40 percent of Russians believe in supernatural phenomena, with this figure highest among women and those who class themselves as religious, according to a poll published on Wednesday.
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Some 22 percent of Russians believe in omens and horoscopes, but only 6 percent believe in extraterrestrials and just 2 percent in zombies, the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion on Social and Economic Issues (VTsIOM) poll said.

Only 7 percent of non-believers trust horoscopes, RIA Novosti reports.

Orthodox Christian Russians make up the largest proportion of those who believe in omens (26 percent) compared to 13 percent among the followers of other faiths and 7 percent of atheists.

However, 57 percent of those polled said they did not believe in any of the phenomena listed.

 

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