Moscow, March 26, 2020

The Muslim community of the Russian Federation hopes that citizens will follow all the instructions given by the authorities due to the coronavirus. They urge the believers to spend next weekend and other days performing prayers and reading Koran at home, the chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Assembly of Russia Albir Krganov told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

Nalchik, March 24, 2020

The Muslim clergy in Kabardino-Balkaria declared quarantine in all mosques of the republic due to the coronavirus, and temporarily suspended collective and Friday prayers.

Moscow, March 18, 2020

The head of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia, mufti of Moscow, Albir-hazrat Krganov supported measures taken by the capital’s authority to ban meetings of more than 50 people. The mufti called Muslims of the region not to come to mosques for congregational prayers.

“We want to address to believers with the request to perform prayers at home so as not to put at risk themselves and others”, the mufti told Interfax.

Nalchik, March 9, 2020

Russian Presidential Grants Fund will support the construction of the first museum of Islamic history and culture in Kabardino-Balkarian Republic in 2020. The museum’s exposition are to be hosted at the North Caucasus Islamic University in Nalchik, Alim Sizhazhev, deputy chairman of Muslim Religious Administration of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic told TASS agency on Monday.

Moscow, March 3, 2020

The Moscow Muslim community does not plan to impose restrictions on visiting mosques or holding services because of the coronavirus, told the Moscow News Agency Ildar Alyautdinov, mufti of Moscow, the chief imam of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque.

February 24, a 15-year-old Muslim teenager carried out his neighbour out of a burning house In the Leninogorsk district of Tatarstan. According to the press office of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Tatarstan the fire broke on February 23, in the evening. It had completely covered the wooden house.

According to Tatar-inform, the neighbors who met the firefighters said that there was nobody in the house.

February 24, an unusual friendly match between the representatives of the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy and Muslim Religious Administration of the Moscow Region was held at the Kratovo training complex in the Ramensky district of Moscow.

Moscow, February 19, 2020

A panel discussion dedicated to “The First Sufi Sheikhs of Russia. Contribution of Islamic Heritage to the Spiritual Development of Russian Society” took place in the Public chamber of the Russian Federation. The event was organized by the Commission for Interethnic and Interreligious Relations of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation and the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia.

Kemerovo, February 18, 2020

Festival of Nasheeds dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the All-Russian spiritual and educational newspaper As-Salam was held in Kemerovo on February 18. It was organized by the public organization Kemerovo Regional Centre for Culture and Traditions of Dagestan Peoples “Vatan” (“Homeland”).

Makhachkala, February 10, 2020

Mufti of Dagestan Sheikh Ahmad Afandi was visited by guests from the Kingdom of Brunei - Rector of the Sultan Sharif-Ali Islamic University, Nurarfan bin Zaynal and his deputy Hajj Simali bin Adam, who arrived in Makhachkala on an official visit earlier today. ⠀
The guests were accompanied by Deputy Mufti Akhmad Kakhaev, as well as Shihabudin Guseynov, Head of the DGI International Department, and Israil Kebedov, Advisor to the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan.

Bolgar, January 8, 2020

On Saturday, February 8, the head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, took part in a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Bolgarian Islamic Academy (BIA), chaired by the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Sergey Kiriyenko. The meeting was attended by the heads of several subjects of Russia as well.