Russian Prosecutors Seek ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Ban
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti)-The Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the film “Innocence of Muslims” extremist and will seek a court ruling to ban the controversial video in Russia, its...
View ArticleNearly 40% of Russians Justify Islamic Anger With Innocence of Muslims – Poll
MOSCOW. Sept 28 (Interfax) – Sixty-two percent of Russians are aware of the Innocence of Muslims scandalous film released in the United States. Thirty-three percent of them have heard a lot about the...
View ArticlePrimakov alarmed by inter-Islamic strife in Middle East
Moscow, January, 15, Interfax – Russia’s ex prime-minister, Mercury Club president and Academy of Science Presidium member Evgeny Primakov said it is wrong to look at the Islamic forces in the Middle...
View ArticleFive New Statistics about Russia That Say More Than a Glance Might Suggest
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, March 1, 2013 – http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/03/window-on-eurasia-five-new-statistics.html) Five new statistics about Russia this past week ...
View ArticleRussia’s North Caucasus, Islamists seen as main terrorist threats – poll
(Interfax – September 7, 2013) A majority of Russians (55 per cent) are confident, to greater or lesser extent, that the authorities are able to protect the public from new terrorist attacks, Russian...
View ArticleNationalist Riots In Moscow Send Fear Through Muslim Migrant Communities
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Tom Balmforth – MOSCOW, October 14, 2013) Moscow’s migrant workers have seen this story before and they believe they have reason to be afraid. When an unidentified man — believed...
View ArticleEthnic Tensions in Moscow Spook the City’s Migrants
(Howard Amos, RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, October 16, 2013) Public prayers to mark the beginning of the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha were not as crowded as usual this year in Moscow. A violent nationalist...
View ArticleRussian Suicide Bomb Spurs Terror Alert as Putin Meets Muftis
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Henry Meyer and Ilya Arkhipov – October 22, 2013) Russian investigators probed yesterday’s suicide bombing that killed six bus passengers in Volgograd as the southern...
View ArticleRussia not interested in tensions between West, Islamic world – Putin
(Interfax – Ufa, October 22, 2013) The voice of Russian Muslim figures should be heard better both on the international arena and in the international Islamic community, Russian President Vladimir...
View ArticleWhat is it like to be a Muslim in Russia?
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Marina Obrazkova, RBTH – February 3, 2014) RBTH talks to Muslims in Russia and searches for the reasons behind the country’s apprehensive attitude toward Islam....
View ArticleIslamic State Grooms Chechen Fighters Against Putin
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Michael Winfrey – October 9, 2014) When the Islamic State commander known as “Omar the Chechen” called to tell his father they’d routed the Iraqi army and taken the city of...
View ArticleInterfax: Most Russians unaware of ISIL, others see it as threat to peace,...
MOSCOW. Oct 9 (Interfax) – Only 13% of Russians are aware of the existence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and 54% learned about it during a poll held by the Public Opinion...
View ArticleNearly 90% of Russians Oppose Polygamy, Poll Shows
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Jennifer Monaghan – June 3, 2015) Weeks after a Chechen police chief took a 17-year-old local girl as his second bride, a state-run pollster has revealed that 87...
View ArticleNEWSLINK Christian Science Monitor: Islamist threat to Russia looms large at...
The Kremlin is increasingly concerned about an Islamist uprising in one of the weak autocracies along its southern flank, all of which will be attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit...
View ArticleFive facts about Moscow’s new central mosque
Ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) on September 23, a new central mosque was thrown open to the public after a special ceremony in Moscow. (Russia Beyond the Headlines –...
View ArticleUmmah: Islam in the post-Soviet world
(opendemocracy.net – Editors of OpenDemocracy Russia – October 19, 2015) oDR introduces a new series devoted to reporting and comment on Islamic life in the post-Soviet space. The Ummah, the worldwide...
View ArticleCombating ISIS from within; Officials look for ways to stop the influence of...
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – ALEXEY TIMOFEYCHEV, RBTH – December 1, 2015) On the eve of the Paris attacks, ISIS extremists published a video in Russian: “Soon, very soon,” it said, “there...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH AP: “Chechnya Holds Classes to Counter IS Propaganda”
AP covers Chechnya’s difficulties with Islamic terrorist recruiting. Authorities in Russia’s predominantly Muslim republic of Chechnya have organized classes to stave off Islamic State recruitment....
View ArticleChechen Separatist Leader: Kadyrov Is Here To Stay
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Natalya Golitsyna – February 19, 2016) One of Ramzan Kadyrov’s staunchest critics says the Chechen leader remains one of the most powerful men in Russia despite mounting criticism...
View ArticleRBTH: Why does Moscow need Syrian Kurdistan?
Why is the Kremlin supporting the Syrian Kurds, who are now complicating the reginal picture by pushing for federalization, and how will this affect Russian assistance to the Bashar al-Assad regime?...
View ArticleRussia’s Moves, Terrorism Fuel Talk of War in Europe – The Daily Signal [also...
[article also appeared at Newsweek.com as “Europeans are quietly preparing for war with Russia”] (Nolan Peterson – @nolanwpeterson – The Daily Signal – dailysignal.com – The Heritage Foundation –...
View ArticleDemographic Collapse of Ethnic Russian Nation Seen Accelerating
(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, January 25, 2017) Russian demographers predict that the total population of the Russian Federation will be relatively stable over the next two decades but...
View ArticleWhat Vladimir Putin Could Explain to Donald Trump
(Jack Matlock, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991 – jackmatlock.com – January 31, 2017) The telephone conversation last Saturday between the American and Russian presidents seems to...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “The ‘Russia Scare’ Coalition: ISIL’s ‘Useful Idiots’? Victory by...
“The turmoil surrounding Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s resignation and wider allegations of links between President Donald Trump, his campaign and Russia seems to have made a strong impression in Moscow....
View ArticleRUSSIALINK RBTH: “Should Muscovites fear Muslims?”
Over the past decade the Russian capital’s Muslim population has swelled to almost 2 million, or about 15 percent of the total population. This has led to tensions with locals who are increasingly...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Did St. Petersburg bombing bring Russia’s Syria intervention back...
“Though #Russia has been dealing with #terrorism for many years, it has mostly been rooted in domestic conflicts in the Caucasus. But Monday’s deadly bombing of a St. Petersburg metro seems likely...
View ArticleRussia’s Muslims Are as Diverse as Their Experiences
(The Kennan Institute – wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute – Liliya Karimova – May 25, 2017) Professorial Lecturer at Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication, the George...
View ArticleThirty Percent of Russians Now Identify as Muslims, New Survey Finds
(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, June 20, 2017) Thirty percent of Russians now identify as Muslims, according to a new survey by the ZoomMarket marketing agency, just 12 percent fewer than...
View ArticleVIDEO NEWSWATCH: “Why are so many from this Russian republic fighting for...
(PBS Newshour – July 12, 2017 – also appeared at pbs.org/newshour/bb/many-russian-republic-fighting-isis) “In the republic of Dagestan, a brutal separatist insurgency has long fought against the...
View ArticleRussian investigators say Nemtsov not killed over religion
(Interfax – July 13, 2017) The Russian Investigations Committee has ruled out the theory that opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was murdered on religious, rather than financial grounds, its...
View ArticleU.S. Religious Freedom Report Names Russia ‘Country of Concern’
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – August 16, 2017) A U.S. report on religious freedoms puts Russia on a par with countries like North Korea and Sudan in its treatment of religious minorities. The...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir...
“Kremlin trolls stole the identity of an authentic U.S. Muslim organization-first to smear John McCain and Hillary Clinton, then to sing her praises. …”
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Putin Declares St. Petersburg Blast Terrorism; Grocery store...
“A bomb blast at a St. Petersburg grocery store [from a handmade explosive device] … injured 13 …. No one has claimed responsibility. … Until recently, Russia’s predominantly Muslim North Caucasus had...
View Article‘Ruins of Empire in Sands of Central Asia’– Russians Leaving Turkmenistan and...
(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, April 23, 2018) Russians constitute only two or three percent of the population of the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan, their departure having been...
View ArticleTerror Threat from Russian-Speaking Jihadists Won’t End with World Cup, and...
(Russia Matters – russiamatters.org – Jean-François Ratelle, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa with an academic focus on insurgency in the North Caucasus – June 13, 2018 –...
View ArticleU.S. Warns Of ‘Terrorism’ Risk During World Cup In Russia
(Article ©2018 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – June 16, 2018 – also appeared at...
View ArticleJRL NEWSWATCH: “How Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov could destabilise Russia;...
“… Kadyrov said the murder of … Kungaeva had been ‘an insult to all of us, and … we will not be dishonoured and humiliated.’ Claiming … Temerkhanov had been tried and imprisoned illegally, he accused...
View ArticleRUSSIALINK: “Russia Will Be One-Third Muslim in 15 Years, Chief Mufti...
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – March 5, 2019) Around 30 percent of the Russian population will practice Islam within the next 15 years, Russia’s grand mufti has predicted, citing demographic...
View ArticleRussia Becoming Part of Central Asia after Trying to Leave It Behind, Kuzmin...
(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, July 23, 2019) Many Russians were pleased that the demise of the Soviet Union meant that the rapidly growing Muslim populations of the Central Asian...
View ArticleRUSSIALINK: “Common moral, ethical values of all religions in Russia ensure...
BOTLIKH VILLAGE, Dagestan. Sept 12 (Interfax) – The common moral and ethical values of all religions represented in Russia guarantee the stability of the Russian state, Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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