As Russia deepens its involvement in Syria, it risks more than a military quagmire. Its intervention exacerbates a growing domestic threat, one that could destabilize the whole country. A new brand of ...

ZVENIGOROD, Russia -- The echo of Moscow's theater siege reverberated loudly in the unheated, unfinished mosque where Zvenigorod's 500 Muslims come to pray. Two Central Asian men, sitting here wrapped ...

Russia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed the Batal Hajji brotherhood, a closed Sufi Muslim order originating from the ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian prosecutors have brought child abuse charges against members of a reclusive Muslim sect accused of keeping some of their children in underground cells for over 10 years. Russia’s ...

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For Russia, the conquest of Crimea was victory. For its Muslims, it was exile. The Crimean Tatars, a proud Turkic Muslim people, were driven from their homeland again and again — by the Tsars, by ...

JEDDAH: Russia renewed its commitment to stronger ties with the Muslim world, vowing respect for religious values and a stronger voice for Islamic nations on the global stage at a forum with Muslim ...

LONDON, 21 November 2007 — Millions of Russians will go to the polls next month in crucial parliamentary elections for the Duma, the outcome of which may well decide the political future of two-term ...

A court in Moscow has jailed two more Muslims who met with others to study the writings of the late Turkish Muslim theologian Said Nursi. Their trial, which lasted eight months and was linked to an ...

Moscow (AsiaNews) - The two major organizations of Muslims in Russia - the spiritual administration of Muslims (Dum) and the Council of Muftis of Russia (SMR) – have invited civil society to join in ...

Russia's top Islamic body has approved a religious edict that allows Muslim men to practice polygamy, which contradicts Russian law that prohibits individuals from entering multiple registered ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may ease restrictions on the Muslim Brotherhood soon to improve relations with Egypt and rebuild influence lost during the Arab Spring revolutions, diplomatic sources say.