Tag: Ravil Gainutdin

Newly-Reopened Mosque Anchor for Moscow’s 2.5 Million Muslims

September 23, 2015
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, September 22 Vladimir Putin and other dignitaries attended the re-opening of the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow today. Russian media celebrated this as the largest mosque in Europe; they mostly did not focus on the fact that Moscow’s Muslim community is the largest in any European capital or that the Russian city has only three […]

Russia’s Closing Of Crimean Tatar Media Backfires On Moscow

April 3, 2015
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, April 2 — No Crimean Tatar media outlet could ever do as much harm to Russia’s reputation and its ability to attract any members of that nation to its side as Moscow’s decision to shut down ATR and other Crimean Tatar broadcasters and publications already has, according to Anatoly Baranov, a Moscow commentator who […]