ITAR-TASS/. Turkish architects having extensive experience with the construction of religious facilities will design five mosques for the Chechen Republic, Musa Dadayev, the chief of the ...

Some of these threats, it said, were contained in a resolution adopted at a meeting between Chechnya’s clergy and public figures at Grozny’s central mosque on April 3. The resolution was devot ...

Chechnya is a roughly 6,700-square-mile autonomous ... through the imposition of a purported ‘traditional’ version of Islam, which falsely claims to defend local belief and culture, and ...

Chechnya's Moscow-backed authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov says he has appointed his 16-year-old son as supervisor at a ...

RUSSIA, GROZNY - APRIL 10, 2024: Muslims pray during a celebration of Eid al-Fitr which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Akhmad Kadyrov (Heart of Chechnya) Mosque.

At the end of 2022, Kadyrov critiqued Chechen residents sporting long beards without attending mosques, proposing they undergo "educational talks". Some experts argue that assigning such ...

Rubin’s book, Russia’s Muslim Heartlands: Islam in the Putin Era (2018), is ... The tactics that served Putin well with Tatar intellectuals or Chechen nationalists were less useful with ...

A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, opening fire and killing six people as they were praying, a Taliban official said Tuesday. Local media reports and a former president of ...

The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office said investigators have detained former Interior Minister Erlan Turghymbaev on a ...

The attitude of the West to its Muslim citizens is beginning to mirror their hostility towards non-client Muslim states ...

The word 'Islam' in Arabic means submission to the will of God. Followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims believe there is one true God Allah (the Arabic word for God). Muslims believe that ...

Chechnya is a roughly 6,700-square-mile autonomous ... through the imposition of a purported 'traditional' version of Islam, which falsely claims to defend local belief and culture, and combat ...