Officials from Russia's Investigative Committee in the republic of Tatarstan have said that authorities are looking for two local citizens allegedly involved in a July attack against two Islamic clerics.
An apparent Islamic militant is claiming responsibility for attacks in Tatarstan last month that killed a prominent Islamic cleric in the Russian republic and seriously injured the chief mufti.
The acting mufti of Russia's republic of Tatarstan, Abdulla Adygamov, says all candidates nominated to serve as Imams should be thoroughly checked if they got religious education abroad.
Rights activists in the Russian republic of Tatarstan have discovered a baseball bat at a prison hospital that they say could have been used to abuse inmates. The accusations deal another blow to law enforcement authorities in the republic, which have been hit by a series of torture scandals in recent months.
Russia plans to establish a new Islamic television channel for the country's Muslims in August.
In the wake of two separate terrorist attacks against leading pro-Kremlin Islamic figures in the Tatarstan capital, Kazan, the authorities have advised the media to quote only seven officially approved experts on all issues related to "Islamic life in the republic."
Graffiti artists from a dozen countries took part in a festival of street art in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan. The event, the first of its kind in Tatarstan, gave a face-lift to some 40 sites around the city.
Three historians, a businessman, and an on-line journalist in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan have been given suspended jail terms for extremist activities.
Investigators in Russia say five men have been arrested in connection with the attacks on two Islamic spiritual leaders in the mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan.
The brazen murder of a powerful Muslim cleric in Tatarstan and a separate assassination attempt on the republic's mufti have shaken authorities in what is traditionally one of Russia's most stable Muslim-majority regions.
Ildus Faizov, the Islamic leader in Russia's republic of Tatarstan, sustained injuries when unknown individuals blew up his car on July 19 in the Tatar capital Kazan.
The government-backed top Islamic leader in Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan has been injured and his former deputy killed in two separate attacks.
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