Director of the Moscow-based Al Wasatiya Center, Russia
Professor Vyacheslav Ali Polosin
He has been the Head of the Russian Center for Moderation since 2011 and the Deputy Director General of the Fund for Support of Islamic Culture, Science, and Education under the Office of the President of the Russian Federation since 2013. He served as a member of the Russian Parliament representing the Kaluzhsk region and was a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 1993. In 1999, he became an advisor to the Council of Muftis of the Russian Federation and later assumed the role of head of the Islamic religious institution "Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqim" in Moscow in 2000. He has also been a teacher of Comparative Religions at the Islamic University of Moscow since 2000.
