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Muslims will trigger disintegration of new Russian empire, Ukrainian mufti says
Mufti Said Ismagilov, head of the Umma Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Ukraine, says that the looming disintegration of…
Might Zelenskyi play the Muslim card against Russia?
Yesterday, incoming Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leaders of the Muslim community of Ukraine for two…
Ukrainian mufti puts a Russian one in his place over Orthodox autocephaly
At a time when Russia’s Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) is marking its 230th anniversary and its mufti,…
Repression of Muslims in Crimea – a reflection of Moscow’s fear of Islam as an anti-colonial force
Zair Smedlyayev, a Crimean Tatar activist, and Said Ismagilov, the mufti of the Umma Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD)…
‘If a bourgeois revolution is to start in Russia, it will begin with Tatarstan,’ Kazan historian says
Just as jadidist writers like Yosef Akchura played a key role in elaborating “the Tatar model” that became…
‘What do French prostitutes, Kremlin media and Duma deputies have in common?’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Ethnic Russian Muslims – an increasing problem for Moscow, experts say
In one of the longest, most closely researched and heavily footnoted studied published to date, Rais Suleymanov says…
Russian-Turkish crisis could open the way to independence for Ukraine’s Orthodox
As Russian calls for Türkiye to return the largest mosque in Istanbul to Christians have attracted far more…
Over 20% of ISIS’ foreign fighters come from Russia and other post-Soviet states, FSB says
The post-Soviet states are currently supplying 7,000 of the 30,000 foreigners who have gone to Syria to fight…
Ethnic Russians converting to radical Islam and recruited to ISIS in Russian prisons, Silantyev says
At least ten percent of the ethnic Russians in the Russian Federation who have converted to Islam over…
Expert: Ukraine must evolve from Russian to Western approach to Islamic communities
Ukraine is still living with the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD) system the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union…