Tajuddin noted that the text of the amendment “does not bulge out that the Russian people are only a state-forming one, it’s justification for the Russian language to be the state language throughout Russia.”
“I am for it,” RIA Novosti quotes the Supreme Mufti.
Also, as the agency writes, the amendment states that the Russian people are members of the Union of Equal Peoples of Russia.
As Tajuddin said, "this also indicates that we have a voluntary union, not won, not colonies, small and large nations entered the union on equal terms, live in one united Fatherland."
“I fully support it,” he added.
In turn, the Mufti of Tatarstan Kamil Samigullin criticized this amendment to the fundamental law.
On March 2, Russian leader Vladimir Putin introduced amendments to the bill to amend the Constitution in the lower house of parliament.
Among them are provisions with reference to God, succession in relation to the USSR, marriage as a union of a man and a woman, and a number of others.