Editing Modern paganism (section)

====Caucasus region====
Among Circassians, the [[Adyghe Habze]] faith has been revived after the fall of the Soviet Union, and followers of modern pagan faiths were found to constitute 12% in [[Karachay-Cherkessia]] and 3% in [[Kabardino-Balkaria]] (both republics are multiethnic and also have many non-Circassians, especially Russians and Turkic peoples)<ref name="ArenaAtlas">[http://sreda.org/arena Arena – Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143249/http://sreda.org/arena |date=12 June 2018 }} • sreda.org</ref> In [[Abkhazia]], the Abkhaz native faith has also been revived, and in the 2003 census, 8% of residents identified with it (note again that there are many non-Abkhaz in the state including Georgians, Russians and Armenians);<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.portal-credo.ru/site/print.php?act=fresh&id=188 | first = Александр [Alexande] | last = Крылов [Krylov] | script-title = ru:Единая Вера Абхазских "Христиан" и "Мусульман". Особенности религиозного сознания в современной Абхазии | trans-title = Of United Vera Abhazskyh "Christians" & "Muslims." Features of religious consciousness in Modern Abkhazia | publisher = Portal-credo | place = [[Russia|RU]] | date = 17 March 2004 | access-date = 30 May 2011 | language = ru | archive-date = 27 August 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170827182302/http://www.portal-credo.ru/site/print.php?act=fresh&id=188 | url-status = live }}.</ref> on 3 August 2012 the [[Council of Priests of Abkhazia]] was formally constituted in [[Sukhumi]].<ref>{{Citation|url=http://apsnypress.info/news/6898.html |title=В Абхазии создана религиозная организация "Совет жрецов Абхазии" |trans-title=In Abkhazia creatures Religious Organization "Tip zhretsov Abkhazia" |publisher=[[Apsnypress]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125151156/http://apsnypress.info/news/6898.html |archive-date=25 November 2015 }}.</ref> In North Ossetia, the [[Uatsdin]] faith was revived, and in 2012, 29% of the population identified with it (North Ossetia is about 2/3 Ossetian and 1/3 Russian).{{efn|[http://sreda.org/arena Arena – Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143249/http://sreda.org/arena |date=12 June 2018 }}. Sreda.org; 29% "adhere to a traditional religion of their ancestors, worship gods and the forces of nature". (исповедую
традиционную религию своих предковпоклоняюсь богам и силам природы). This figure compares to 1.2% adherents of ethnic religions in all of the Russian Federation.}} Modern pagan movements are also present to a lesser degree elsewhere; in Dagestan 2% of the population identified with folk religious movements, while data on modern pagans is unavailable for Chechnya and Ingushetia.<ref name="ArenaAtlas"/>