Two weeks ago the Russian state bank Sberbank opened a branch in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, a republic with a Muslim population, following a strategy of developing Islamic banking. This initiative came as no surprise due to the Western sanctions Islamic banking and finance serve as an alternative to the Russian financial system. Islamic banking and finance have been
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