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1/ How a Tiny Ancient Group Bounced Back from Near-Extinction
Samaritans once numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Persecution dropped them to 146 by 1918. Today they number 900. Resilience through high fertility, endogamy, and adaptation as the following will show.
🇷🇺 Milyonki Village: Where children outnumber adults and every third family is a large family (at least 3 kids)
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• Staying in the Kaluga region we now turn our attention to the village of Milyonki.
• Again the village is a part of the Anastasia Movement (founded 2006)
A couple of sources (there are many others):
1. A TV report: otr-online.ru/programmy/mali…
2. Pop Snapshot: poselenia.ru/site/index?cp=p…
James 🇦🇺 retweeted
How do Hutterites (Schmiedeleut) elect ministers? Men are nominated from among baptized male married members, voted by colony members. Then the three or four candidates are elected by drawing of lots. That allows God to guide the final choice.
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In case anyone else was after this information, I’ll be posting a 2026 update on Orania when they release their birth and demographic statistics around December.
In the meantime, this summarises the information we have as it stands.
Some early information for you.
Orania had its first population decline in years in 2025, after years of high growth, some years above 15%, this single year decline of -4% was due to:
1. The US refugee scheme allowing White South Africans to move to the US.
2. A temporary shortage in new housing.
Both of these issues have since largely been resolved (most people who wanted to leave to the US already have, and the housing shortage was resolved), so the decline will probably have only been for that year.
Births in the town grew substantially from 21 births in 2024 to 36 in 2025.
I expect that the 2026 data will be positive based on comments from community leaders, one commented that growth in just October this year was very high, so it seems promising.
I’ll post more information in December when we have the 2026 results.
🇷🇺 "Kovcheg" (The Ark), Kaluga Oblast, Russia: (Anastasia Movement - Current Pop: 200-300 : Over 33% under 18)
1/ Founded in 2001 with a vision to build an entire village around family life by raising children, being self-sufficient and building family homesteads.
🇷🇺 2025 Update on the successes of Russia's Anastasia/Ringing Cedars movement in the Belgorod Region on the border with Kharkov in Ukraine. More than 300 families live in 20 Settlements there.
"In 2010, Belgorod Oblast made history by becoming the first Russian region to officially legislate support for Kin’s Domains (rodovye pomestya), a direct implementation of the Kin’s Domain concept described in Vladimir Megre’s Ringing Cedars of Russia series"
Main Project/Village website:
kovcheg-village.ru/
Many photos can be accessed through the website, under the Photo Gallery section, linked below:
kovcheg-village.ru/fotogaler…