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    1. cherrystarburst_17 on

      What does Ethnic Muslim mean? Maybe muslim majority ethnic groups or just muslim by religion?

    2. Traditional muslim ethnicities doesn’t mean their whole population are muslims for real. Many are secular.

      And many others who do believe at this point in Russia are practicing near secular Islam different from what you imagining from the cliches or migrants coming to your countries.

    3. Playful-Demand2312 on

      No such thing as ethnic Muslims

      There is different groups such as Azeris, Chechens even Russians that are typically Muslim

    4. Muslim is not an ethnicity, it is a religion. This may be different in Bosnia, where Bosniaks identify as Muslims in an ethnic sense, but in Russia most probably identify as Tatar, Dagestani, Chechen, Abkhaz etc.

    5. Thrustdre4m23 on

      The concentration in the Caucasus is wild to see visualized like this.

    6. It is an interesting fact to remember that the USSR collapsed when Ukraine decided to leave and Russia realized it would be left alone with all the predominantly Muslim republics and their rapidly growing populations.

      An edit dedicated to those who downvoted me: “…Yeltsin made a conscious decision to amputate the Asian and Muslim component of the state once it became clear that Ukraine was irrevocably leaving” – Stephen Kotkin

      “Without Ukraine, the Russian leadership felt the Union lost its geopolitical meaning. They feared the Russian Federation would have to bear the economic burden of subsidizing the increasingly populous Central Asian republics alone. Furthermore, it altered the demographic balance, leaving an ethnically Slavic Russia tied to a predominantly Muslim bloc, something the new Russian elite was unwilling to accept for its future.” – S. Plokhy

      “…Yeltsin understood that a union without the Slavic demographic counterweight and the wealth of Ukraine would leave Russia as the sole financial provider for the impoverished Islamic republics of the south.” Vladislav Zubok