Chairman of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation Chief Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin congratulates President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin on his birthday. Putin:
Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!
On behalf of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, the multimillion-strong Ummah of Russia and on my own behalf, I cordially congratulate you on your birthday!
Thanks to your many labours and outstanding mind, Russia today has a unique national policy that helps representatives of the most diverse peoples, religions and cultures living in the vast expanses of our Motherland in their creative work for the benefit of the state. Nationally elected President, you demonstrate by your personal example a model of respectful attitude to religious shrines and feelings of believers and invariably broadcast the message of unity, brotherhood, good neighbourliness of peoples and religious communities of Russia. Among the Muslims of Russia, you enjoy the deepest respect and trust as a defender of traditional spiritual and moral values at the global level.
On your birthday, dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, I sincerely wish you good health, wisdom and inexhaustible energy. I prayerfully ask the Almighty God to support your noble state labour for the benefit of Russia and all peoples of the world!
With respect and kind prayers,
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin
