There are 259,000 Jews in Russia, according to an unofficial overview of the 2002 national population census. The number that appeared in the Novoye Izvestiya newspaper is close to some of the lower estimates given by Russian Jewish demographers and sociologists last year, before the first post-Soviet census was taken. Some Jewish leaders are questioning the validity of the data.
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