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Russian muftis are waiting for the Muslim communities of the LDNR

Russia and the CIS (bbabo.net) - The Council of Imams of the Lugansk People's Republic, headed by the Imam of the Luhansk Cathedral Mosque Eldar Gambarov, announced its withdrawal from the Ukrainian Spiritual Board of Muslims and the transition to the Russian one. The imam said this in an interview with the NTV channel.

The imams decided to join the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia, headed by Mufti Albir Krganov. Krganov himself confirmed to BUSINESS Online the desire of Muslim communities from the LPR to join his religious structure.

Earlier, the head of another centralized religious structure, the DUM RF, Ravil Gainutdin, expressed a desire to accept Muslims from the DPR and LPR into their ranks. “We know how and with what the Muslims of Donetsk, Luhansk, Debaltseve, Gorlovka and other cities live, what they have had to endure in recent years. We are one with the brothers of Donbass, and no one will be able to divide us. It is quite logical that their Islamic centers will become an integral part of the DUM of the Russian Federation, ”RIA Novosti quotes Gainutdin.

According to Ukrainian data until 2014, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions together constituted the second largest ethnic Muslim region in pre-Maidan Ukraine after Crimea. Representatives of many Muslim peoples compactly live in the Donbass. The absolute core of the Muslim community of Donbass is the Tatars.

Russian muftis are waiting for the Muslim communities of the LDNR