December 22, 2017, one of the active leaders of the religious communities of the Moscow region, Rinat hazrat Sayfutdinov, passed away. He organized the construction of a mosque in the city of Shchyolkovo, which was opened in 2001, a Sunday school for teaching the Tatar language.

On December 22, after the Friday prayer at the Ezderbey mosque in Baku (Tatar mosque), the Tatar Diaspora of Azerbaijan met with the first deputy chairman of the Religious Board of the Muslims of the Russian Federation and the Council of Muftis of Russia, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Khazrat Damir Mukhetdinov and the head of the CIS Department of the International Department RBM RF Nail Shakirov.