MUSLIM UMMAH IN THE SYSTEM OF STATE POLICY OF CHUVASHIA IN THE 1990S
The article considers the evolution of the Chuvash Republic state policy with respect to the local Muslim Ummah during the 1990s. The study of these processes is accompanied by the complex analysis of the sources and historiography of the problem. Basing on the information of the State Historical Archives of the Chuvash Republic and the State Archives of Contemporary History of the Chuvash Republic, introduced into scientific use for the first time in the national historical science, the author singles out the main trends, peculiarities and problems of state-Islamic interaction in the chronological framework of the research.