“It really is. We officially reported this on the Mufti Council website. Just now I was talking with my assistant; she will be sending out a newsletter with accreditation coordinates for this event on Friday. I think we will somehow do this quite cinematically and brightly. Because they are parishioners of our mosque... It will be on Friday afternoon,” Gazieva said.

Earlier, the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, nominated 15-year-old Islam Khalilov for the award, who saved more than 100 people from Crocus City Hall.