In the competition for the radio frequency of 95.5 MHz in Kazan, the Russian Orthodox channel «Radio Vera» won against the company «Tatmedia», which proposed to create a Tatar-language broadcasting on this frequency. Now the channel of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate «24 hours a day, 7 days a week» will tell the residents of Kazan about the «eternal truths of the Orthodox faith», as it is stated in the description of the «Radio Vera» channel.
In this regard, it should be noted that the last time a Tatar-language radio channel received a broadcasting license in Kazan was in 2011. And in 2017, despite the protests of listeners and the Tatar community, one of the few Tatar-language channels — «Tartip FM Radio» — was deprived of its frequency.
These events are another vivid illustration of the increasingly entrenched role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Putin-Gundyayev’s Russia, as well as the ethnic-confessional hierarchy within it, and the situation in modern Tatarstan, which is gradually turning into the Kazan province.
(In the photo: the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tatarstan, Metropolitan Theofan, and the head of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Tatarstan, Kamil Samigullin)