Russian Council of Muftis

[2] The Council is responsible for allocating the slots for the Hajj assigned to Russia.

[citation needed] The Council of Muftis of Russia was founded on July 2, 1996 in Moscow at a meeting of muftis convened by the chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Central European Region of Russia Ravil Gainutdin, elected chairman of the new association.

[4] On November 25, 1998, the Council of Muftis of Russia merged with the Supreme Coordination Center of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia and the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus.

In February 2009, the Council of Muftis received a warning from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation due to the discovery during the inspection of violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation—violations that were later corrected.

[7][8] In the mid-2010s, after the largest member of the Council of Muftis of Russia was transformed into the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, becoming one of the all-Russian muftis, the RMC, in turn, became a purely representative body a number of spiritual boards of Muslims.