On 22 November 2019 Zaiyrbek Ergeshov, Director of the State Commission for Religious Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic (SCRA KR) met with Mr. Daniyar Abdyrakhmanov, Rector of the Bulgarian Islamic Academy and Mr. Rafik Mukhametshin, Rector of the Russian Islamic University (Kazan).

During the meeting they considered issues of interstate cooperation in the religious sphere, prevention of radicalism and extremism, and discussed proposals for joint projects in the field of religious education, issues of developing a teaching methodology for religious educational institutions, and prospects for cooperation in this area.

Zaiyrbek Ergeshov, Director of the SCRA KR, told about further plans and activities as a result of the conference “Islam and Orthodoxy - Religions of Peace”.