There are fewer mosques in Moscow than in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The ridiculously high estimates of Muslim population in Moscow are not official statistics but come from Muslim lobby organizations that are trying to get more mosques built, lol.
The Russian Federation includes entire ethnic regions that are home to majority-Muslim populations in the millions and despite that the self-identified Muslim share of Russia's population is smaller than France's. Moscow has fewer visible immigrants than any German city of 500k.
In 2025 alone, new, stricter immigration laws have reduced the number of immigrant children in Russia by 25%.
If you discount ethnic administrative units - where historical minorities live - and only look at regular Russian oblasts, those are about 95% ethnic Russian. The largest Muslim group in Russia are Tatars who are very secular and barely even register as not ethnic Russian at all.
I still believe that there are immigration problems in Russia and I support the government's current course on restrictive immigration reform - if anything, I think it should be harsher and move more quickly - but Westerners really should stop making things up just to make themselves feel better about what their own countries are doing.
🇷🇺 ⚽ It was not permitted to bring a Russian flag into the stadium for the Champions League final, so the wife of PSG’s Russian goalkeeper, Safonov, made her own out of plastic bags