December 20, 2007 in Karachaevo-Circassia was stated a day off in connection with the Moslem holiday Kurban-bairam. The corresponding decree was signed by the president of the republic Mustafa Batdyev, they informed IА REGNUM correspondent in the press-service of the head of Karachaevo-Circassia on December 14.
This day was announced a day off in connection with the federal law «About religious freedoms and about religious associations» and in view of the petition of the chairman of the presidium of the Spiritual management of Moslems of Karachaevo-Circassia and Stavropol Territory, they explained in the press-service of the president of the republic.
The leader of Karachaevo-Circassia sent his congratulations to the address the chairman of the Moslem Coordination centre of Northern Caucasus, the mufti of Karachaevo-Circassia and Stavropol Territory Ismail Berdiev. M. Batdyev also congratulated all the Moslems of the republic.
«This year the holiday is especially joyful for us. In Cirkessk construction of the new mosque had started, and as much as never before ours compatriots could have gone off to Mecca. We confidently can ascertain that the interethnic conflicts, social intensity now failed and the direct merits in stabilization of the political situation belongs to the Moslem and the Orthodox clergy, and average believers», — it was spoken in the congratulation of the president of the republic.
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