Abstract
Muslims in the Russian Army today face systematic institutional discrimination in relation to their ethnic Russian counterparts. This ethnically‐based subjugation of Muslims in the Russian Army is a continuation of discrimination that existed in the Soviet and Tsarist eras. It is kept alive today through lingering attitudes and prejudices among the Russian military leadership, almost all of whom served alongside Muslims in Soviet times, particularly in Afghanistan. In the search for a post‐Soviet ideology, the Russian Army was subjected to both official and unofficial attempts to give it a Russian‐Christian character. Though reconciliation attempts continue, Muslims are greatly underrepresented in the Russian Army, and this poses a larger risk to the welfare of the Russian state as a whole.
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