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The Islamic Federation of Russia (Russian: Исламская Федерация России, Islamskaya Federatsiya Rossii) or just the Islamic Federation, is a Muslim-rights advocacy group based in Moscow, Russia. It is Russia's most powerful and influential Muslim-rights group.

The group was found in 2012, by a mix of Muslim Russian citizens from the Caucasus, Chechnya, Dagestan and Central Asia during the height of seemingly anti-Islamic policies being enacted by the government in Moscow, especially against native local Azeris in the Caucasus, one of Russia's predominantly-Muslim republics. The main founder, Ragima Omarova, an Azeri from the Caucasus, felt that Muslim citizens in Russia lacked unity.

Originally based in Grozny, the organization moved its headquarters to Moscow, as a symbolic gesture of remaining faithful Russian citizens, and to include all citizens of Russia, Muslim and non-Muslim, of fostering peace and cooperation between all Russian citizens.

The Islamic Federation is divided into republic-level chapters. The federation hosts charitable events across Russia, as well as political lobbying for Muslim rights, including government-sanctioned studies of Russian Islamic History across public schools in Russia.