During the Soviet shamanism is seen as a relic of the past, but the special persecution of him was not. He was considered an internal affair of small nationalities, one of the components of their inherent backwardness and identity. In areas where the spread of Mahayana Buddhism, shamanistic beliefs with them well combined. Therefore, this tradition, its continuity never stopped. The shaman often combines the functions of a doctor, the carrier of sacred knowledge, mythological, poetic, cultural traditions, the artist (bone carving, the creation of so-called religious sculptures, etc.).
Now the local authorities in the development of national consciousness are encouraging and even funding at the state level, such as in Tuva, the development of shamanic traditions and try to make the state religion of shamanism. In recent years the region are actively pursuing aliens who shoot films here on the local shamans and invite them to Europe to conduct seminars. Those shamans who “exit”, are from time to time in Moscow and are interested in seminars, but a large seminar in Moscow on a number of reasons they can not.
