Vladikavkaz, August 29, 2022

The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Interreligious Dialogue as the Basis for Peace in the Balkans” is being held in Vladikavkaz on August 28-30. The forum organizer is the Coordination Center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus with the assistance of the Fund for the Support of Islamic Culture, Science and Education.

Moscow, August 29, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a greeting to the participants and guests of the Kazan Global Youth Summit, which is taking place from August 27-30. The telegram was published on Monday on the Kremlin website.

Kazan, August 27, 2022

Mufti of Tatarstan Kamil hazrat Samigullin held a meeting with schoolchildren from low-income and large families. Every year, on the eve of the Day of Knowledge, Tatarstan Muftiyat gives schoolbags and all the stationery necessary for the school to needy families.

The meeting was held in the office of Muslim Religious Administration of the Republic of Tatarstan as part of the republican initiative “Help to get ready for school!”

Kuzbass, August 27, 2022

Sports competitions among mosques were held at the “Olimpiets” stadium in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Islam.ru reports. Seven teams from the cities of Prokopievsk, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo, Osinniki, Novokuznetsk, Kiselevsk and the village of Verkh-Egos of the Prokopevsky municipal district took part in the Games.

The athletes competed in six kinds of sport: relay race, pull-ups, push-ups, weights lifting, archery, pulling a rope.

Penza, August 26, 2022

On the eve of the new school year the leadership of the Regional Muslim Religious Administration of the Penza region turned to Muslims with a request to help low-income families to prepare children for school. This initiative is traditionally held every year. Schoolbags, school uniforms, textbooks, stationery, notebooks, sets for children’s creativity, and all collected school supplies will be given to children from large and single-parent families, children left without parental care.

Kazan, August 26, 2022

Russian media manager, ex-head of Muz-TV, Arman Davletyarov, announced his decision to make a mosque from his late mother’s house. There children will also have chance to study the basics of Islam, NUR.KZ reports. Davletyarov said that his mother lived happily in this house.

St. Petersburg, August 25, 2022

A photo exhibition “Lead us on the straight path” dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by the Volga Bolgaria has opened in the Marble Hall of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. The project covers two periods of the modern history of Islam in Tatarstan: the documentary photographers focus on the epoch of the revival of spirituality in the times of the late USSR and the life of the Ummah today.

Kazan, August 24, 2022

Experts discussed religious discrimination in Russian colonies, as well as the socialization of former prisoners during the panel discussion dedicated to the issue of Muslims held in correctional facilities. The meeting was organized by the Billion Tatars project.

A well-known Kazan lawyer Ruslan Nagiyev said that he often encounters complaints from Muslim prisoners about feeding pork which is forbidden in Islam, as well as the ban on the reading Koran or performing prayers.

Moscow, August 24, 2022

Halal products are becoming more and more popular among adherents of a healthy diet. People who are not familiar with Islam mistakenly believe that the concept of halal is exclusively religious and is not appropriate to the representatives of other faiths. However, halal products are produced to high quality standards and are healthy for many reasons.

Kazan, August 23, 2022

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met with the delegation of the Union of Cooperatives of Indonesia “Inkopontren” headed by the Chairman of the Union of Cooperatives of Indonesia Mohamad Sukri Tarmidi.