No pope: Islam is a very democratic religion, we do not have one hierarchy like in Christianity., There is no pope or Ecumenical Patriarch for Islam. Within each district, each block or panchayat or whatever is the lowest administrative unit gets it in proportion to their population. There was much evidence of official conciliation toward Islam in Russia in the 1990s. [53][54][55][56], A chain e-mail spread a hoax speech attributed to Putin which called for tough assimilation policies on immigrants, no evidence of any such speech can be found in Russian media or Duma archives. Muslims in India - With over 209 million followers (2021), Islam is the second-largest religion in India after Hinduism. 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One skinhead who claimed his girlfriend was killed in the bombing of the Moscow apartments in 1999, which were blamed on Chechens, told the Washington Post, The Dark ones, I hate them. [51] In 1995 the newly established Union of Muslims of Russia, led by Imam Khatyb Mukaddas of Tatarstan, began organizing a movement aimed at improving inter-ethnic understanding and ending Russians' lingering misconception of Islam. [25], The Cossack Hetmanate recruited and incorporated Muslim Mishar Tatars. Islam is the second largest religion in Russia after Russian Orthodoxy. Communist rule oppressed and suppressed Islam, like other religions in the Soviet Union.[when?] Only a handful of Muslim were allowed to make the haj. Text Sources: Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia, China, edited by Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond (C.K. Russian girls were legally allowed to be sold in Russian-controlled Novgorod to Tatars from Kazan in the 1600s by Russian law. Russians, Germans, Belarusians and Ukrainians). The latter is a post-Soviet group that claims the allegiance of the majority of Russias Muslim groups. [80], A survey published in 2019 by the Pew Research Center found that 76% of Russians had a favourable view of Muslims in their country, whereas 19% had an unfavourable view.[81]. "There are approximately 3.5 million Muslims in Moscow who have little chance to hear the Gospel of Jesus in a way they understand," Powell said. Elghobashy made history when she became the first hijabi athlete to . [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *], Representatives attended from several newly independent Central Asian republics, from Azerbaijan, and from several autonomous jurisdictions of Russia, including the secessionist-minded autonomous republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. Regarded as criminals and often referred to as "blacks" or chernozhopy (black asses), they include people from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and other regions in the Caucasus Mountains. . The number of mosques in Russia increased from around 500 in the Soviet era to around 5,000 around 2000. Russia is a secular state by constitution, and its largest religion is Christianity. Muslim population grew by 4.4% while that of Hindus declined by 4.3%: Study Hindus increased from 304 million (30.4 crore) to 966 million (96.6 crore), Muslims grew from 35 million (3.5 crore). [13], Russia is a multinational state,[16] home to over 193 ethnic groups nationwide. Gaynetdin has told Anadolu news agency that t. Sheikh Gaynetdin said most Muslims in the country live in the Moscow region and other major metropolitan areas such as St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Russian Army will be a majority Muslim Army by 2020. [56] Russia has one of the world's most female-biased sex ratios, with 0.859 males to every female,[12] due to its high male mortality rate. Between 1993 and 2008, Russia 's population saw a considerable decline in its population from 148.37 million to 143.25. The KGB watched over Islamic organizations. According to a comprehensive survey conducted in 2012, Muslims were 6.5% of Russia's population. Graffiti in Moscow reads "Kill the blacks.". The current population of the Russian Federation is 146,093,083 as of Tuesday, January 17, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data. On the same day an 18-year-old Chechen was stabbed to death by skinheads outside the Kremlin. This page was last edited on 16 January 2023, at 23:47. Moscow has the largest Muslim community in Europe. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. An interim Russian-controlled administration was imposed in Chechnya in 2000, headed by the ex-Mufti and, therefore, religious leader of Sufism, Akhmad Kadyrov. The Muslim population still grows at a faster rate than the Hindu population, but the gap between the two growth rates is narrowing fast. [64], In 1991, Chechnya declared independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Many mosques (for some estimates,[50] more than 83% in Tatarstan) were closed. [8], The history of Islam and Russia encompasses periods of conflict between the Muslim minority and the Orthodox majority, as well as periods of collaboration and mutual support. Speaking at a conference in Moscow, Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin said the number of Muslims in . 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[citation needed] Due to overwhelming demand from Russian Muslims, on 5 July 2011, Muftis requested President Dmitry Medvedev's assistance in increasing the allocated by Saudi Arabia pilgrimage quota in Vladikavkaz. [76] The III International Conference on Hajj Management attended by some 170 delegates from 12 counties was held in Kazan from 7 9 July 2011. Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. [100], Islam is the second-largest religion in Russia, and it is the traditional religion amongst most peoples of the North Caucasus, and amongst some Turkic peoples scattered along the Volga-Ural region. [18], Demographic statistics according to the latest Rosstat vital statistics[19] and the World Population Review in 2019. According to the report, the Christian population increased by 2% in 2021. Population of Russia in 2022 - 146 million or 14.6 Crores Russia has a population growth rate during 2020-2021 of 0.04 %. [70][71] Turkic peoples form a large minority, and are spread around pockets across the vast nation. km (6,323,482 sq. [12] Moscow, the capital and largest city, has a population estimated at 12.4 million residents within the city limits,[113] while over 17 million residents in the urban area,[114] and over 20 million residents in the metropolitan area. There are also an additional 3 million to 4 million migrants from former Soviet states. There are over 5,000 registered Muslim communities in Russia. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, had a population of 147.2 million according to the 2021 census, or 144.7 million when excluding Crimea and Sevastopol, up from 142.8 million in the 2010 census. ", "Islam, Islamism, and Terrorism in the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia: A Critical Assessment", "ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS: WHAT KIND OF THREAT FOR REGIONAL SECURITY? Central mosque of Karachaevsk, Karachaevo-Cherkessia. [16], The Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, the last remaining successor to the Golden Horde, continued to raid Southern Russia and burnt down parts of Moscow in 1571. Russia will continue to have the largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in Europe in 2030. Their follow-up study in 2011 found that the number of mosques had grown to 2,106, and the 2020 version found 2,769 mosques . Ivan the Terrible subjugated the Tatars and forcibly converted[citation needed] some of them to Christianity. A separate private health insurance plan is needed to access private healthcare in Russia. For that reason, the Russian government has provided extensive military and political support to secular leaders of the five Central Asian republics, all of whom are publicly opposed to political Islam. The relationship between the government and radicals deteriorated. According to a US State Department release and Pew research group, the population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim. Since Soviet times, the Russian government has divided Russia into a number of Muslim Spiritual Directorates. [27] Muslim Turkics and Buddhist Kalmyks served as Cossacks. [107] It spent roughly 4.7% of its GDP on education in 2018. Yekaterinburg, the fourth-largest city in the country. Gavrilova, N.S., Semyonova, V.G., Evdokushkina G.N., Gavrilov, L.A. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. [11] Subsequently, the nation has an ageing population, with the median age of the country being 40.3 years. "When I was a kid, everything about religion was kept quiet" one Dagestan resident told the Los Angeles Times, "You'd say things like, 'have you washed yet today?' More than 58 peoples, nationalities and ethnic groups have historically practised Islam,Gaynetdinsaid. [99] According to various reports, the proportion of Atheists in Russia is between 16% and 48% of the population. Chechen and Azerbaijani street traders have had their goods and money seized and their kiosks bulldozed by Russian authorities. India in numbers India now has 966.3 million Hindus,. 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Leaders in Dagestan have urged people to join together in a "single spiritual space.". The Muslim population in Europe is about 50 million today going to 60 million by 2030, forming 8% of Europe's population (excluding Turkey). [59], The principal cause of death in Russia are cardiovascular diseases. Christianity is becoming a religion of the past; Islam appears that of the future. The rector of the madrasah Ilyas hazrat Ziganshin and the first deputy head of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of the Tatars Mars Tukaev also took part in the meeting. Islam remains the largest non-Christian faith group at 6.5% of the population, versus 4.9% in 2011. More recently, President Putin consolidated this trend, subsidizing the creation of mosques and Islamic education, which he called an "integral part of Russia's cultural code",[10] encouraging immigration from Muslim-majority former Soviet bloc states, and condemning the anti-Muslim hate speech, such as caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [101] Buddhists are home to a sizeable population in three Siberian republics: Buryatia, Tuva, Zabaykalsky Krai, and in Kalmykia; the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the most practised religion. After his death, his successor, Dokka Umarov, declared continuing jihad to establish an Islamic fundamentalist Caucasus Emirate in the North Caucasus and beyond. [106] Its pre-school education system is highly developed and optional,[109] some four-fifths of children aged 3 to 6 attend day nurseries or kindergartens. [74], A record 18,000 Russian Muslim pilgrims from all over the country attended the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2006. In the Soviet-era, one Tatar told National Geographic, "I only heard the Koran read at funerals. Russia Will Be One-Third Muslim in 15 Years, Chief Mufti Predicts March 5, 2019 Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of the Council of Muftis Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency Around 30 percent of the. The number of Muslims is increasing, in part because their birthrate is higher. . The Muslim population, which stood at 3.9 million or 6.5 percent of the population, up from 4.9 percent before, Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Tuesday. The Russian Federation inherited two of the four spiritual boards, or muftiates, created during the Stalinist era to supervise the religious activities of Islamic groups in various parts of the Soviet Union; the other two are located in Tashkent and Baku. " Russia's Turning Muslim, Says Mufti " is the startling headline in the Times of London today. [72] Various distinct ethnic groups also inhabit the North Caucasus. The Russian army rounded up people, driving Muslims from their villages to ports on the Black Sea, where they awaited ships provided by the neighboring Ottoman Empire. Muslims accused of having Wahabbi sympathies have had he mosques raided and religious material, including Korans, confiscated. [77], For centuries, the Tatars constituted the only Muslim ethnic group in European Russia, with Tatar language being the only language used in their mosques, a situation which saw rapid change over the course of the 20th century as a large number of Caucasian and Central Asian Muslims migrated to central Russian cities and began attending Tatar-speaking mosques, generating pressure on the imams of such mosques to begin using Russian. In fact, in 2020/2021, 45% of religious hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales were targeted against Muslims. The faith was introduced by merchants visiting the Swahili coast, as it became connected to a larger maritime trade network dominated by Muslims.This would lead to local conversions and assimilations of . [110] The oldest and largest universities in Russia are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. Celebrations were muted for a second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through the . [8] Asia [ edit] [34] They were in a non-standard capacity in the military. Russia, the largest country in the world by area, had a population of 147.2 million according to the 2021 census,[1] or 144.7 million when excluding Crimea and Sevastopol,[a] up from 142.8 million in the 2010 census. Frank, Allen J. Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 17801910. . None of the Medium-Growth Muslim population countries will have a majority of Muslim population in the next 200 years, the most will be more than 25 per cent of the population in Italy (in 2220) and Switzerland (in 2200). The Muslim population in the United States is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a new Pew Forum report. Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Orthodox Christianity is much closer to Islam than Catholicism is. The annexation is internationally recognized only by North Korea. It doesnt just burn me up, it drives me crazy. Police routinely stop people suspected as being from the Caucasus on the streets and extract a bride even when all their papers are in order. [46] They were given a choice as to where to be resettled: in the Ottoman Empire, in Persia, or Russia far from their old lands. Russian Shias are mainly Azeris and Tajiks from Pamir and they are small in number. The growth rate for the Muslim population in Russia is projected to be 0.6% annually over the next two decades. Dark-skinned men with beards are particularly suspected. [82] Russian is the second-most used language on the Internet after English,[83] and is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station,[84] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Immigrants and migrant workers from Central Asia, which experts estimate at six to seven million, are mostly Muslim. And as Muslim families have a birth rate one child higher than the rest of the continent, the Pew Research Center projects nearly 1 in 5 people will be Muslim in the United Kingdom (17%),. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *], There is much evidence of official conciliation toward Islam in Russia in the 1990s. Shireen Tahmasseb Hunter, Jeffrey L. Thomas, Alexander Melikishvili. They are shouted down in the streets with the call, Eh, Shamil!, a reference to the 19th century Chechen leader Shamil Basayev. Animosity towards them has been extrapolated to other peoples of the Caucasus, even Christians, who are also reviled. Only the old men know it. [33] In August 2012, as the country saw its first demographic growth since the 1990s, President Putin declared that Russia's population could reach 146 million by 2025, mainly as a result of immigration. [47] Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. [10] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth was 71.54 years (66.49 years for males and 76.43 years for females). Gavrilova N.S., Gavrilov L.A. In: P. Uhlenberg (Editor), International Handbook of the Demography of Aging, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp. [34] New citizenship rules introduced in April 2014 allowing eligible citizens from former Soviet republics to obtain Russian citizenship, have gained strong interest among Russian-speaking residents of those countries (i.e. Anti-Muslim feelings were stoked by the war in Chechnya and terrorist attacks by Chechen fighters in the 1990s and early 2000s. Rival Muslim groups accuse each other of being Wahhabis as a way of undermining them. A census in 2002 counted 14.5 million while Russian Muslim leaders claim there are 23 million. Hence in communal riots the police, which is 98% . Russian data includes occupied Crimea and Sevastopol starting in 2014, Ethnic groups in Russia of more than 1 million people in 2010, Percentage of ethnic Russians by region in 2010. Thus, combatting Islamophobia is sacrosanct. Russia was the world's fifth-leading destination for international students in 2019, hosting roughly 300,000. [36] Denis Davidov mentioned the arrows and bows wielded by the Bashkirs. As average population is an estimate of the population in the middle of the year and not end of the year, crude migration is thus an extrapolation. According to US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population. [51], Russia, by constitution, guarantees free, universal health care for all Russian citizens, through a compulsory state health insurance program. Insurgency in the North Caucasus continued until 2017. Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, . 100 (18111913 .). [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *], In the 1980s, Islam was the second most widespread religion in the Soviet Union; in that period, the number of Soviet citizens identifying themselves as Muslims generally totaled between 45 and 50 million. XX .). [9] It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 per square mile). The Cossack Ural, Terek, Astrakhan, and Don Cossack hosts had Kalmyks in their ranks. In colonial and post-colonial times, dawah has been dramatically affected by the strength of the Muslims and various political and sectarian issues lingering in almost every . Robert Crews's study of Muslims living under the Tsar indicates that "the mass of Muslims" was loyal to that regime after Catherine, and sided with it over its Ottoman rival. The former is based on Bashkortostan and is led by Talgat Tadzhuiddon, who was a member of the Soviet religious bureaucracy. [16], A policy of deliberately enforcing anti-modern, traditional, ancient conservative Islamic education in schools and Islamic ideology was enforced by the Russians in order to deliberately hamper and destroy opposition to their rule by keeping them in a state of torpor to and prevent foreign ideologies from penetrating in.[48][49]. The response of violent mortality to economic crisis in Russia. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *]. Living in the country today are more than 20 million Muslims, including members of more than 30 indigenous Russian nations," according to Talib Saidbaev, advisor to the Head Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia. In 1996 the Muslim population of Russia was estimated at 19 percent of all citizens professing belief in a religion. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. - . Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of country or topic discussed in the article. 18111913 . Origin: Islam came to Russia in the seventh century. [94][95][96] Other branches of Christianity present in Russia include Catholicism (approx. Global Muslim Population A report by Pew Research claims there are 1.8 billion muslims in the world and that's set to rise to around 3 billion by 2060. Some of those who closely followed the teachings of Islam have lost their jobs; mosques have also been closed. ", "Russia's population undergoes largest ever peacetime decline, analysis shows", "Fertility rate, total (births per woman) - Russian Federation", "Mapped: Which country has the most immigrants? [62], According to The Washington Post, "Russian Muslims are split regarding the [Russian] intervention in Syria, but more are pro- than anti-war. Harassment and attacks of people from the Caucasus increased after terrorist attacks involving Chechens. Many other Caucasian Muslims ended up in neighboring Iran - sizeable numbers of Shia Lezgins, Azerbaijanis, Muslim Georgians, Kabardins, and Laks. Mosques and madrassas (Muslim schools) were closed down, turned into museums or run by puppet imams and muftis. [17] In 2010, four-fifths of Russia's population was of European descentof which the vast majority were Slavs,[69] with a substantial minority of Finnic and Germanic peoples. The first Muslim state in the future Russian lands was Volga Bulgaria[15] The meeting's pan-Islamic complexion created concern in Moscow about the possible spread of radical Islam into Russia from the new Muslim states along the periphery of the former Soviet Union. In 1992, for example, Sheikh Ravil Gainurtdin, the imam of the Moscow mosque, complained that "our country [Russia] still retains the ideology of the tsarist empire, which believed that the Orthodox faith alone should be a privileged religion, that is, the state religion." The Chechen separatists were internally divided between the Islamic extremists, the more moderate pro-independent Muslim Chechens and the traditional Islamic authorities with various positions towards Chechen independence. "In Israel, the Christian number is stable because there is freedom of religion," Pastor Petra Heldt, a leading Christian scholar who has lived in Israel 40 years, told Fox News Digital. Gavrilova N.S., Semyonova V.G., Dubrovina E., Evdokushkina G.N., Ivanova A.E., Gavrilov L.A. Russian Mortality Crisis and the Quality of Vital Statistics. [55] Its healthcare expenditure is notably lower than other developed nations. Around 30 percent of the Russian population will practice Islam within the next 15 years, Russias grand mufti has predicted, citing demographic trends. [105] The Ministry of Education of Russia is responsible for primary and secondary education, as well as vocational education; while the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia is responsible for science and higher education. Published by Statista Research Department , Dec 14, 2022 The size of the Russian population was estimated to have decreased by approximately 693 thousand between 2021 and 2022. 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Since 1992 he has headed the central or combined Muslim Spiritual Directorate of all of Russia. The changing demographics mean that dozens of new mosques will need to be built in Russias largest cities, Gainutdin, the Govorit Moskva radio station when asked if the, Russia Will Be One-Third Muslim in 15 Years, Chief Mufti Predicts. The number of Muslims allowed to make pilgrimages to Mecca increased sharply after the embargo of the Soviet era ended in 1991. [60] Obesity is a prevalent health issue in Russia; 61.1% of Russian adults were overweight or obese in 2016. The Russo-Circassian War ended with the signing of loyalty oaths by Circassian leaders on 2 June [O.S. [75] In 2010, at least 20,000 Russian Muslim pilgrims attended the Hajj, as Russian Muslim leaders sent letters to the King of Saudi Arabia requesting that the Saudi visa quota be raised to at least 25,00028,000 visas for Muslims. Before 1649 Russians could be sold to Muslims under Russian law in Moscow. 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