Russians are reportedly growing exasperated with Central Asian Muslim migrants praying in public places, while the migrants say Russian cities do not have enough mosques to accommodate their need to pray five times each day.

Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported on Sunday that two social media videos appear to have galvanized Russian anger, one from Vladivostok in March and another from the far eastern city of Khabarovsk in October, that showed Muslim migrant bus drivers kneeling to pray in front of the vehicles they were supposed to be driving.

The October video was particularly irksome because it depicted passengers sitting inside the bus, waiting over ten minutes for the driver to finish his prayers. The regional transportation ministry received complaints from some of the pass

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