A large-scale presidential program for training “Islamic cadres” loyal to the government is starting.

At the February meeting of the Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, with the Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation V.Yu. Surkov, it was decided that within the framework of the presidential target program at the Department of Regional Studies of the Faculty of International Relations of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky from the new academic year, places will be allocated for students in the direction from the Nizhny Novgorod representative office of the RMC in the Volga Federal District. According to the Islam in Nizhny Novgorod website , "such a practice ... already exists. Students sent by DUMNO, for example, study at the Institute of African and Asian Countries at Moscow State University."

As follows from an article in Izvestiya , published on March 24, this refers to the launch of a large-scale presidential program to train "Islamic cadres" loyal to the authorities - religious scholars and representatives of the Muslim clergy. The introduction of quotas for students sent by Muslim organizations in secular universities is only the first step. It is assumed that in addition to the Nizhny Novgorod University, the program will be attended by the Moscow Linguistic University. Maurice Thorez and Petersburg State University. In each of them, 10 places will be allocated for the training of students sent by IMR in the specialties of "religious studies", "regional studies", etc. It is also planned to create large non-state centers of Islamic education in Moscow, Kazan, Rostov and Krasnodar.

Sources

• Ulema from a secular university // Islam in Nizhny Novgorod. 2005. March 21.
• Ivanova-Gladilshchikova N., Kiseleva P. Muslims will be taught to love their Motherland // News. 2005. March 24.