The attack on high-ranking Muslim clerics took place in Tatarstan on July 19, on the eve of Ramadan. In Kazan, the former deputy mufti of the republic, head of the educational department of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Tatarstan, Valiulla Yakupov, was killed in the entrance of his own house. An hour later, the official car of Mufti Ildus Fayzov himself was blown up. The mufti is wounded.