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Russia has committed itself to butcher reindeer meat according to Muslim dietary laws and export it to the Muslim world, starting with Qatar, in a joint Russian-Qatari venture. The reindeer meat will come from the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of Russia, much of which lies above the Arctic circle. A new ... Read More »

By Will Englund Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, December 21, 2010; 9:28 PM ALMETYEVSK, RUSSIA Rustam Sarachev should have had a hangover the first time he set foot in the central mosque here. He had wanted to throw a raucous party the night before, a send-off for himself on his way ... Read More »

The heads of Russia's main religious faiths condemned on Monday the two Moscow subway blasts that killed least 37 people and injured dozens. The Council of Muftis said "extremism and terrorism have no basis in the Holy Quran." It said "a terrorist cannot be a Muslim while a Muslim cannot be a terrorist." Read More »

Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports. Read More »

I spent a week in Moscow this Ramadan. At one of the main mosques in Moscow (I believe there are 4-6 total), I met a brother, Muḥammad, a foreign student from Ghana, studying at the Moscow University. Like other “stranger” brothers during my trips to Paris and Moscow, Muḥammad displayed ... Read More »