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Russian Islamic communities news roundup.
MOSCOW, July 29 (Itar-Tass) - Authorities in Russia's constituent republic of Tatarstan have invited Kuwaiti businesses to invest in the facilities that will be built for the World University Games/Universiade/, due to be held in the republic's capital Kazan in 2013.
An agreement on this was signed last Friday by the Tatarstani Ministry of Economics and Turk Capital Holding company.
Turk Capital's Executive Director, Fawwaz K. Al-Issa recalled thatTurk Capital Holding is a filial company of the Kuwait Finance House and its registered capital stands at 150 million U.S. dollars.
The company invests in projects implemented on the territories ofTurkic countries - Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and others.
Tatarstani Economics Ministry Marat Safiullin said at the signingceremony that Islamic finance presents interest for the republic from the angle of view of some promising local projects.
Agreements have been reached on setting up a joint venture where Turk Capital will have 75% and the Tatarstani government, 25%. The JV is expected to have a registered capital of 10 million U.S. dollars.
In the future, the JV will facilitate promotion of the republic'sdeveloper market. It will engage, among other things, in a construction project effectuated in cooperation with the Millennium Zelant City company.
Kuwait Finance House /KFH/ was set up in 1977. It offers Shariah banking services like consumer banking, financing of real estate andleasing projects, direct and portfolio investment.
The KFH has offices in a number of Asian countries, including Turkey where the office was opened in 1989The KFH and the Turkish government organized a joint bank on parity grounds. Its assets currently stand at an estimated 4 billion U.S. dollars.
At a later date, they set up the Turk Capital Holding.
A beach divided in two parts, one for men and the other for women, will be organized in Chechnya's capital Grozny before the end of the bathing season, sources at the press service of the territorialpresidential administration said.
Grozny's mayor Muslim Khuchiyev said amelioration of the bank area isin progress at a section of the Chernorechensky water reservoir.
"With due regard for our Islamic mentality, a beach where men and women will be able to spend leisure time separately will be opened afterthe completion of these works," Khuchiyev said.
*** Christian and Islamic communities in the constituent republic of Komi, a region located in the north of European Russia, have spoken out against the compulsory introduction of Eastern Orthodox Christian subjects in the curricula of general schools, the press service of the republic's SlavicJuridical Center said.
An appeal of the initiative group denouncing the introduction of the Basics of Russian Orthodox Culture as a mandatory subject in the school curricula has been forwarded to the Komi president, Vladimir Torlopov, and the chairman of the commission for inter-ethnic relations and freedom ofconsciousness, Nikolai Svanidze.
Leaders of various non-Orthodox denominations of Christianity present in Komi complained in their letter that many schools in the region have prayer rooms decorated in full compliance with the canons of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, "where the adolescents are motivated to perform religious rites." The authors of the letter assert: "The introduction of the Basics of Russian Orthodox Culture crudely encroaches on the rights of Russian citizens and creates a danger of ethnic strife." The appeal also complains of what its authors describe as intolerance of the Russian Orthodox diocese of Syktyvkar and Vorkuta towards thepeople who do not share the Russian Orthodox creed.
It carries the signatures of thousands of Moslems living in the area of the Arctic coalmining city of Vokuta, as well as Pentecostal,Evangelical and Baptist churches and separate atheists.
*** Saudi authorities have issued a quota for 12,500 people from Russia's North Caucasus regions to perform the hajj this year, Ismail Berdiyev, the chairman of the Coordination Council of Moslems of North Caucasus and theIslamic Religious Department of Karachai-Cherkessia said.
"We'll begin to form the groups of hajjis and detailed preparations for the trip at the end of September, after the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan," Berdiyev said. "First groups will leave for the hajj in December." About 150 hajjis are expected to go to Mecca from the region ofKarachai-Cherkessia.
"All of them pay for themselves but we don't rule out the number of hajjis will grow if some benefactors decide to render assistance, like ithappened in previous years," Berdiyev said.
*** Moscow City mayoralty has issued an order to remove all the street posters and billboards that close the view of mosques, churches,synagogues and other places of prayer.
The deadline for removal is August 1.
Apart from this, all advertising will be removed from the buildingsincluded by UNESCO in the list of world cultural heritage sights.
A resolution on this was signed by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
By the beginning of this fall, posters and billboards will be takenoff the city's most important architectural ensembles.
By January 1, 2009, the city authorities will clear away the streetpromos from the areas adjoining the Kremlin.
An agreement on this was signed last Friday by the Tatarstani Ministry of Economics and Turk Capital Holding company.
Turk Capital's Executive Director, Fawwaz K. Al-Issa recalled thatTurk Capital Holding is a filial company of the Kuwait Finance House and its registered capital stands at 150 million U.S. dollars.
The company invests in projects implemented on the territories ofTurkic countries - Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and others.
Tatarstani Economics Ministry Marat Safiullin said at the signingceremony that Islamic finance presents interest for the republic from the angle of view of some promising local projects.
Agreements have been reached on setting up a joint venture where Turk Capital will have 75% and the Tatarstani government, 25%. The JV is expected to have a registered capital of 10 million U.S. dollars.
In the future, the JV will facilitate promotion of the republic'sdeveloper market. It will engage, among other things, in a construction project effectuated in cooperation with the Millennium Zelant City company.
Kuwait Finance House /KFH/ was set up in 1977. It offers Shariah banking services like consumer banking, financing of real estate andleasing projects, direct and portfolio investment.
The KFH has offices in a number of Asian countries, including Turkey where the office was opened in 1989The KFH and the Turkish government organized a joint bank on parity grounds. Its assets currently stand at an estimated 4 billion U.S. dollars.
At a later date, they set up the Turk Capital Holding.
A beach divided in two parts, one for men and the other for women, will be organized in Chechnya's capital Grozny before the end of the bathing season, sources at the press service of the territorialpresidential administration said.
Grozny's mayor Muslim Khuchiyev said amelioration of the bank area isin progress at a section of the Chernorechensky water reservoir.
"With due regard for our Islamic mentality, a beach where men and women will be able to spend leisure time separately will be opened afterthe completion of these works," Khuchiyev said.
*** Christian and Islamic communities in the constituent republic of Komi, a region located in the north of European Russia, have spoken out against the compulsory introduction of Eastern Orthodox Christian subjects in the curricula of general schools, the press service of the republic's SlavicJuridical Center said.
An appeal of the initiative group denouncing the introduction of the Basics of Russian Orthodox Culture as a mandatory subject in the school curricula has been forwarded to the Komi president, Vladimir Torlopov, and the chairman of the commission for inter-ethnic relations and freedom ofconsciousness, Nikolai Svanidze.
Leaders of various non-Orthodox denominations of Christianity present in Komi complained in their letter that many schools in the region have prayer rooms decorated in full compliance with the canons of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, "where the adolescents are motivated to perform religious rites." The authors of the letter assert: "The introduction of the Basics of Russian Orthodox Culture crudely encroaches on the rights of Russian citizens and creates a danger of ethnic strife." The appeal also complains of what its authors describe as intolerance of the Russian Orthodox diocese of Syktyvkar and Vorkuta towards thepeople who do not share the Russian Orthodox creed.
It carries the signatures of thousands of Moslems living in the area of the Arctic coalmining city of Vokuta, as well as Pentecostal,Evangelical and Baptist churches and separate atheists.
*** Saudi authorities have issued a quota for 12,500 people from Russia's North Caucasus regions to perform the hajj this year, Ismail Berdiyev, the chairman of the Coordination Council of Moslems of North Caucasus and theIslamic Religious Department of Karachai-Cherkessia said.
"We'll begin to form the groups of hajjis and detailed preparations for the trip at the end of September, after the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan," Berdiyev said. "First groups will leave for the hajj in December." About 150 hajjis are expected to go to Mecca from the region ofKarachai-Cherkessia.
"All of them pay for themselves but we don't rule out the number of hajjis will grow if some benefactors decide to render assistance, like ithappened in previous years," Berdiyev said.
*** Moscow City mayoralty has issued an order to remove all the street posters and billboards that close the view of mosques, churches,synagogues and other places of prayer.
The deadline for removal is August 1.
Apart from this, all advertising will be removed from the buildingsincluded by UNESCO in the list of world cultural heritage sights.
A resolution on this was signed by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
By the beginning of this fall, posters and billboards will be takenoff the city's most important architectural ensembles.
By January 1, 2009, the city authorities will clear away the streetpromos from the areas adjoining the Kremlin.
