Gérard Moussay early 1970’s, they were around 40 000 including Cam inhabitants in the neighbourhood (Phan Ri). Two thirds of this population "follow a religion which was no doubt Brahmanism in the past but it is now only a distant souvenir of the religion coming from India". The last third are the so-called Banis who are descendants of Cam families who have opted for Islam since 14th or 15th century. These two communities have their villages, theirs clergies, their own rites. They don’t get married between them but keeping their relationship (same Cam calendar and some formal occasions). A small part of
Peterburgian Vedism Leningrad State University and in military academies. In 1986 he founded the "Society of the Mages" (Общество Волхвов, "Obshchestvo Volkhvov"; or Союза Волхвов, "Soyuza Volkhvov") and in 1990 the "Union of the Veneds", the earliest Vedic organisations. His promotion of nationalism and conservatism led Bezverkhy to have troubles with Soviet authorities on various occasions, and he received an official warning from the KGB. In the early 1990s he was prosecuted for inciting hatred towards Jews, but he was found not guilty. Among other organisations that employ the term "Vedism" there are the "Krasnodar Slavic Orthodox Community—Vedic Culture of Russian Aryans",