Mordovia authorities have denied reports of lifting the ban on wearing hijabs in rural schools

Update. Interfax, citing the data of the Romodanovsky court , reports that the claims against the leadership of the school in Belozerye were actually rejected. At the same time, according to an agency source in the administration of Mordovia, earlier the school management canceled the order on the dress code - this happened after filing lawsuits.

Update 2: On March 29, the Ministry of Education of Mordovia said that a ban on headscarves for teachers introduced in December is still in effect.

The Romodanovsky District Court of Mordovia satisfied the claim of the schoolteachers in the village of Belozerye, who demanded that the management's order to ban the wearing of Muslim headscarves be cancelled.

According to lawyer Ruslan Nagiyev, who wrote about the court decision on Facebook, the court also canceled reprimands for wearing headscarves. The court denied compensation for non-pecuniary damage.

“Praise be to the Almighty, justice has triumphed. Muslim women, being the indigenous inhabitants of Russia, whose ancestors voluntarily converted to Islam more than a thousand years ago, were legally able to obtain the right to wear a headscarf and were rehabilitated,” Nagiyev wrote.

• Belozerye is a village in Mordovia where Muslim Tatars live. It was mentioned in the media due to the fact that several natives of the village left for Syria to participate in hostilities on the side of the terrorists.
• In December, local school officials banned female teachers from wearing the hijab at the facility. After that, as Gazeta.Ru wrote, photographs allegedly taken at school appeared on the Internet, in which underage girls in hijabs pose with weapons and pray.
• In January 2017, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilyeva, commenting on the situation in Belozerye, said that “hijabs, as emphasizing confessional affiliation, have no place in school”, and “true believers”, in her opinion, do not try to “emphasize their attitude towards faith paraphernalia". After that, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov , said that his daughters "will never take off the hijab at school."
• In 2014, Mordovia authorities banned children from wearing hijabs in schools. Residents of Belozerye tried to challenge the ban in court, but the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized it as legal. Earlier, a similar ban was adopted (and recognized as legal) in the Stavropol Territory.