Six months after invading Ukraine in 2022, Putin signed a decree reinstating the Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award, given to women with ten children. The first winner was Medni Kadyrova, wife of the Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov. Who is he trying to fool?
In 1991, the Soviet Union had 120 mosques. Within twenty years, they built 8,000.
These are the numbers that make Vladimir Putin sleepless, together with the massacre against the churches and synagogue in Dagestan.
In the next 15 years, a very probable scenario will be one in which in the largest metropolitan areas of Russia – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg – the majority of the population will be made up by the Muslim community.
