From the early morning of May 18, delegates of the VIII All-Russian Forum of Tatar religious figures “National Identity and Religion” began to gather in the building of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars for registration. Today the forum starts working in sectional meetings.

The section “Islam and Tatar national identity” will work at  the NCC “Kazan”, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan – “Bulgarian Islamic Academy as the center of revival of the national theological thought”, at  the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan – “Mosque and the Tatar family”, in the IT park – “Islam and the media”.

In the evening, delegates are awaited at the Kamalovsky Theater. Here  Yuzeyev’s play  “My White Kalfack”   will  be presented.

As previously reported, 1,050 people representing the Republic of Tatarstan and 68 regions of the Russian Federation have been  invited to the forum.