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Other provinces with- in the Russian federation — such as Tatarstan, Dagestan and Chechnya — are predominantly populated by Muslims. The mufti's comments come as Russia prepares for parliamen- tary elections in December. With the elections' imminent approach, Muslim participation in Russia's political life became the subject of intense debate af- ter an Islamic political group, the Muslim Union of Russia, declared it would run its own slate rather than back existing parties. The idea of an organized Is- lamic political bloc riled the Russ- ian Orthodox Patriarch, Alexei who warned Muslim leaders that if they persisted in organizing a denomination-based political bloc, Orthodox Christians would do the same. But Muslim religious and po- litical leaders countered that they were simply trying to protect the interests of their constituents, who they said lacked representa- tion in the Russian government. The-Islamic leaders denied that their political bloc has any reli- gious connection. The Muslim Union of Russia is headed by Akhmet Khalitov, a former aide to Russian ultrana- tionalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and one of the founders of the Russian Liberal Democratic Par- ty, which Mr. Zhirinovsky heads. Because of Mr. Khalitov's ties to Mr. Zhirinovsky, the Muslim Union is believed to be an off- spring of Russian nationalist cir- cles. In contrast to the Islamic com- munity, Jews and other religious and ethnic minorities are not seeking separate representation in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The Congress of Ethnic Unions of Russia, a movement that in- cluded several different ethnic groups, dissolved this summer and allowed its members to throw their support behind already ex- isting Russian political parties. The Jewish and Ukrainian sec- tions of the congress decided to join Russia's Choice Party, head- ed by former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. In return, Moscow Jewish ac- tivist and businessman Valery Engel will run on that party's slate as a representative of East- ern Siberia. Other ethnic groups — includ- ing Koreans, Armenians and Kurds — threw their support be- hind the Inter-Ethnic Union, a bloc backing the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. Support Extended To Rwandans Jerusalem (JTA) — An Israeli support group for Holocaust sur- vivors and their children will help Rwandans cope with the psycho- logical effects of last year's geno- cide of more than 500,000 of their people. Rwanda's ambassador to Is- rael, Zac Nsanga, said the group — known as AMCHA — would participate in a Nov. 1 conference on genocide to be held in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. The conference is expected to draw ex- perts from around the world. More than 500,000 people, most of them members of the minority Tutsi tribe, were mur- dered by rival Hutus during 1994. In the summer of 1994, the Is- raeli army flew a mobile field hos- pital to eastern Zaire in order to treat hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees. AMCHA director John Lim- berger said that although it is im- possible to draw straight parallels between the Holocaust and the slaughter in Rwanda, it is im- portant to do something now to address the issue openly — some- thing not done during the Holo- caust, "when no one else cared." He said the group hoped to share its expertise in dealing with post-traumatic stress. "In addition to dealing with dis- placed persons, widows, orphans and relocation, the government should also take on the psycho- logical effects of the genocide, to prevent some of the things that will happen down the road," he told Israel Radio.