One of the consequences of V. Putin's participation in the work of the OIC in Kuala Lumpur was the discussion in the presidential administration of the issue of introducing a new post of Assistant to the President for Muslim Affairs in Russia and international Islamic organizations, the website "Regions.ru" reports .

The editor-in-chief of the site MIDEAST.RU Alexander Shumilin draws attention to the internal political aspect of V. Putin's initiative to establish cooperation with the OIC. According to A.

On October 17, the Moscow City Court overturned the October 3 ruling on the expulsion from Russia of adherents of the religious movement "Falun Gong" - Chinese spouses Li Zhi He and Zhang Guirong. Two years ago, the couple applied for political asylum to the Moscow office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). From there, the appeal was sent to the territorial department of the Federal Migration Service, where they were put on the waiting list.

The Committee for Youth Affairs of the Krasnodar Territory and the Yekaterinodar and Kuban diocese have signed agreement a cooperation .

"NG-Religions" publishes an article by employees of the Department of Religious Studies of the Russian Academy of Civil Service under the President of the Russian Federation A.V. Zhuravsky and A.I. Kyrlezhev, devoted to the problem of the conceptual foundations on which the state policy towards religious associations should be built.

On October 20, the Information and Analytical Agency "Marketing and Consulting" published an appeal by the chairman of the association "Tatar Teachers" Farit Rakhimov and the chairman of the Naberezhnye Chelny Tatar Public Center Rafis Kashapov, addressed to the presidents of Russia and other CIS countries, presidents of republics, governors of Russia, mayors of cities, candidates for deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the media.