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Akhmet Yarlykapov

Senior research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, for RIA Novosti.

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Eurasia

Russia’s place in the Islamic world

by Akhmet Yarlykapov

1 July 2005

The Russian Federation is not only a european state with an orthodox christian population, it is also an asian state with a muslim population. While part of the russian leading class sticks on to its monoethnical, uncompromising positions and fuels the war in Chechnya, president Putin and his (...)