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Head of Russia's Mufti Council Ravil Gainutdin agreed on "mutual help and cooperation" with the HAMAS Palestinian movement, the Council's website reports.
"Muslims of Russia take the situation in Palestine with sore heart. We speak out to condemn the policy of Israel aimed at expanding occupation of Palestinian land," Gainutdin said on Tuesday in Moscow at the meeting with Chairman of the HAMAS political bureau Khaled Mashal.