Rally in Grozny Ends in Collective Prayer
Lesson Brief
BBC Russian
There was a mass rally in the Chechen capital of Grozny on Sunday in support of the prophet Muhammad. Hundreds of thousands of people came out to show that they did not support the publication of a magazine cover depicting Muhammad after the killing of Charlie Hebdo in France. Moreover, the Russian government warned that the publication of the magazine in Russia would be against the ethnic and moral norms in the country.