COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THE RUSSIANS’ ATTITUDE TO ATHEISM AND ATHEISTS

In this article an attempt of issue consideration of validity atheistic, or as it was called "methodologically atheistic" approach in empirical sociology is given. The data of researches provided in article testify to a high share of religious self-identification, and some discrepancy of data ? about weak desire of researchers to take this fact into account. It is necessary to hope that reproaches to the author will lead to new researches of the issue discussed.