Tag: Abdulla Rinat Mukhametov

Muslims Must Focus on Their Dawning Status as the Dominant Group in Russia, Mukhametov Says

April 19, 2015

Staunton, April 15 — Because of demographic trends, Muslims are on their way to becoming the dominant group in Russian life sometime within the next generation or so, and they need to begin to think about what that will mean and how they should act in anticipation of that, according to Abdulla Rinat Mukhametov, a […]

Putin’s War in Ukraine Saves Tatarstan’s Special Status For Now

September 2, 2014

Staunton, September 2 – Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has “unexpectedly” allowed Tatarstan to retain its presidency and thus “again confirm its status as a special region within Russia, ‘an exception from the rules,’ as former Federal Council speaker Sergey Mironov put it, and thus, “a bastion of federalism” within Russia, according to a Muslim […]