Hawzah News Agency (Moscow, Russia) - According to the Iranian Cultural Center in Russia, the Ekho Moskvy Radio, which is known for its Islamophobic stances, asked for its listeners’ opinion about the Hijab.

In one of the polls, it asked whether they agreed with Chechnya’s President Ramzan Ghadyrov who defended the Hijab or with Russian Education and Science Minister Olga Vasilieva who supports a ban on wearing headscarves in schools.

The majority of those taking part in the opinion poll (82 percent) supported Ghadyrov’s view.

Asked whether seeing a Hijab-wearing girl in school makes them feel offended, 75 percent said no.

On whether religious symbols should be banned in schools, the answer of 80 percent of the respondents was negative.

Vasilyeva recently said that pupils of Russian schools should not demonstrate their faith by wearing certain religious items.

Ghadyrov rejected Vasilyeva’s idea, saying she tries to impose her personal opinion on the society.

"A headscarf is not an attribute. Rather it is an important part of a Muslim woman's clothes," he said.

The Russian Presidential Human Rights Council has reacted to this situation.

Russia’s regions should have a right to make their own decisions on whether to allow hijabs at schools, Yevgeny Bobrov, the council’s deputy chairman and head of the council’s commission for migration policy and protection of human rights in the sphere of interethnic regions, said.

"I think that they [hijabs] should be allowed in regions where the practice [of wearing them] has long existed," he said.