• Russia's foreign minister assured leaders of Islamic states on Friday that the country intends to remain a strong ally to the Muslim world on all international issues. Sergei Lavrov is attending a two-day summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in the capital of Senegal, Dakar, which started on Thursday. "As a multinational and multi-confessional society with a centuries-long history, Russia is also part of the Islamic world," he emphasized.
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a letter of greetings to participants and guests of the eleventh summit of the OIC, noting that deeper friendship, cooperation with Islamic world is Russia's strategic course story story2 story3