Tatar President A No-Show For ‘World’s Largest Koran’

KAZAN, Russia — A Koran billed as the world’s largest has been unveiled in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who was scheduled to attend the November 17 ceremony at Kazan’s Qol Sharif Mosque, did not show up. Minnikhanov’s predecessor, longtime Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev, […]