Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov (left) visits Mufti Ildus Faiz in hospital after the cleric's car was rocked by powerful bomb blasts on July 19. Radio Free Europe
Prominent Russian Muslims Targeted In Attacks -- Washington Post
MOSCOW — Assassins on Thursday attacked Russia’s two most prominent Muslim opponents of religious extremism, killing one, in a move that stoked fears the nation’s long, violent struggle against Islamic radicals may be spreading.
Both men were targeted in Kazan, a serene, prosperous city on the Volga River that is the capital of Tatarstan, Russia’s traditional Muslim heartland. Valiulla Yakupov, a deputy mufti, was killed and Ildus Faizov, Tatarstan’s chief mufti, was hospitalized.
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