300 detained at Moscow Muslim prayer room following Putin crackdown

Moscow police detained 300 Muslims after President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown on radical Islamists ahead of next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The 300 people, including 170 foreigners, were held at a Muslim prayer room in the capital, and police said Islamist literature had been confiscated, according to Radio Free Europe.
It is the third such raid targeting Muslim places of worship in Moscow or St. Petersburg this year, Reuters reported.
The “fight against corruption, crime and the insurgency has to be carried out harshly and consistently,” Putin told a meeting of security force officers, according to the radio station.

Mess with Putin at your peril , a truly great leader of Russia

Hmm.... despite the low birth rate, the ethnic composition of Russia seems to be remaining more or less stable. According to the 2002 Census, 86% of the population was white. Came down to 85% in the 2010 Census.





For comparison, the same in the US went down from to 69.1% in 2000 to 63.7% in 2010.


Birth rate in Russia grew from 1.195 children / women in 2000 to 1.694 children / woman in 2010.


In USA, the birth rate declined from 2.034 in 2000 to 1.894 in 2010.