Students from Tajikistan are trying to turn a university into a madrasa in Surgut

Students from Tajikistan accused the leadership of Surgut State University of discrimination. It all started because of the rector's refusal to allocate a room for prayers to Muslim students, reports TC "Tsargrad".

The first such demand was made by immigrants from Tajikistan, but they were rebuffed. Moreover, they began to make remarks when suddenly Tajik students began to regularly spread mats, demonstratively kneel down and do namaz. When they were asked not to do this in the corridors, they moved under the stairs, then into the rooms where the cleaners store inventory, and the teachers — visual aids.

"They pray anywhere: in the corridors, under the stairs and even in the back rooms due to the fact that they were refused to provide a prayer room," other university students say.

The conflict group of students from Tajikistan was supported by the diaspora. The walkers went to the city administration, trying to break through to the mayor of Surgut, so that he forced the rector to allocate premises for prayers. Against this background, Tajik students were joined by students from Arab countries.

The university management is still holding the line:

"The university is a secular institution with its own charter and certain rules. The student is obliged to understand and accept this even at the time of admission to the university."

Surgut State University (SurGU) — the first university in the territory of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Ugra). It was founded in 1993. It consists of 6 institutes and a medical college, as well as 2 research institutes (including 13 scientific laboratories), 2 research centers and 4 independent scientific laboratories. He is a member of the International Association of Circumpolar Universities "University of the Arctic" and in Eurasian Association of Universities (EAU).