November 15, 2011 Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin, during the meeting dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the JIM, proposed to develop uniform for all constituent entities of the Russian Federation rules for the allocation of land plots for construction of new mosques. In his opinion, it is necessary "to find ways to overcome on the ground, in certain regions of a subjective approach to resolving the issue of allocation of land for the construction of mosques.
"When developing a coping mechanism, it is important lay in it a provision that the policy of the federal center in relation to to the needs of believing citizens should be united in a single and integral territory country," he added. Sources