Russia will launch its first Islamic channel in late February or early
March, the head of the Russian Mufti Council said, RIA Novosti
reports.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed organizing such a channel
at a meeting in support of Muslim religious organization in the North
Caucasus in August 2009. The channel was planned in order to teach the
basics of Islamic religion.
The mufti said that the main content of the channel is education
programmes, mainly for young people. Gaynutdin said that the channel
will teach tolerance and patriotism.
He added that people of other confessions are involved in the project as well.
The inter-ethnic peace topic was raised after the mass disorders on
Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on December 11, when radical youth started
pogroms and attacking people under nationalistic slogans
