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Muslim rituals reflect Muslim beliefs and serve as a basis for the Islamic cult. The most important of them are common to the entire Muslim world.

The organization unites heads of Muslim spiritual boards around the country. This is done for coordination of their activities; a board remains entirely independent when its leader joins the Council.

Like other contemporary successful Muslim movements in Russia, the Union of Russian Muslims is quite moderate in its platform. Since its leader was arrested its activity has remarkably fell though.

The CMSBR succeeds to the Orenburg Mohammedan Spiritual Assembly established by Empress Catherine II's edict in 1788-89. It has survived the USSR and is now successfully developing.

Nur is a broad-based Muslim socio-political movement in Russia. Its moderate, but consistent platform allows it to enjoy increasing support of the Muslim public around the country.

The Muslim renaissance brought about by the break-up of the USSR has led to the emergence of a number of Muslim movements in Russia. Some of them have already left the scene, while others are still developing.

The Battle for the Caucasus is a series of military operations in the N. Caucasus conducted by the Armed Forces of Russia and Nazi Germany. It began on July 25, 1942, and ended on October 9, 1943.

Borga Kash is the earliest of the surviving Muslim monuments in Ingushetia. It was built in 1405-06 in honor of a certain Bek-Sultan and since then has become a very revered place.

The Antiwar Committee in Saint Petersburg put out a regular leaflet against the war in Chechnya.

Islam is the second religion in the number of adherents in Russia. The Muslim community has survived the Russian Empire and Soviet government and is now going through a renaissance.

A mass beating of students of the Chechen nationality with the use of cold steel took place in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, on September 17.

Most of them are members of the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses", which is unregistered in the country.

More than 40 Chechen intellectuals met in Grozny on September 19 to discuss how best to preserve their nation in the era of globalization.

The Council of American-Islamic Relations joined the group supporting the US Congress resolution that commemorates the 15th anniversary of the United States ratification of the UN Convention on Genocide, in which the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the last century is mentioned.

The adoption of such a law in the time that is so decisive for Armenia is inadmissible, therefore it must be prevented by common efforts, stresses the authors of the document.