MOSCOW: Russia's highest Muslim council on Saturday issued a protest against a ban on some Islamic publications considered by the authorities to be "extremist."

The Council of Muftis "has taken a decision to request that the relevant institutions of the Russian Federation carry out a repeat analysis of the books," the council said in a statement.

The council said it was "seriously concerned" that there was no official committee to analyze the literature and accused the experts who compiled the list of doing so "tendentiously and subjectively."