Kazanviolence

olice experts examine the remains of the car of the Islamic leader of Russia's main Muslim region of Tatarstan, following a car blast in Kazan on July 19, 2012. The Mufti of Tatarstan, Ildus Faizov, was wounded in a car explosion in the region's main city of Kazan while his former deputy, Valiulla Yakupov, was shot dead in separate incidents that came only an hour apart.