The Association promotes education and mutual understanding of representatives of different religions and nations. For intolerance, hostility, discrimiantion on the basis of religion or ethnics stems from lack of authentic information and ignorance. That is why qualitative information is an important means of strengthening of good-neighbourliness in the society, and its easiness of access is an essential indication of openness of modern society. So, since 1998, the monthly newspaper “Arraid” in Russian has been published, intended for free distribution across Ukraine. The newspaper is an official edition of the Association. Its contents are also available in electronic form (http://gazeta.arraid.in.ua/). It is especially popular for Crimean Tatars for whom it often appears to be the only source connecting them with the Muslim world. The newspaper also comes out in Arabic for the Arabian Diaspora in Ukraine.
The latest news and details related to the Association’s activities, as well as documents from conferences, media reviews and press-releases can be found on the official site of “Arraid” (http://www.arraid.in.ua/).
One can aquaint himself with Ukrainian and foreign news of the Islamic world on the web-site “Islam for All” (http://www.islam.com.ua/), functioning since 1999. The site conents material explaining the principles and essence of Islam, its significance and role in the past and present. The news page, informing about current events in Ukraine and the countries of Islamic world is regularly renewed. On the site are also published Fatwas of authoritative Islamic scholars. At the present time it is collected more than 1000 questions and answers. An actively functioning forum allows the users to discuss Islamic faith and recommends books educating on spiritual issues.
Translations of the meanings of the Holy Quran are available on the separate page (http://www.quran.org.ua/), supplied with convenient tools for search and thematic index.
Since 2006 functions one more site – “Islam in Ukraine” (http://www.islam.in.ua/). It operates in Ukrainian, Russian and English languages. The task of this resource is to provide the readers with truthful and objective information about Islam in Ukraine. This site represents a call to religious dialogue between Christians and Muslims, informationally-analytical ground for the discussion of actual issues. It introduces Islamic culture and religion, informs about Muslim’s position in Ukraine and in the whole world. The site contains Ukrainian and international news, media reviews (for instance, Al-Jazeera TV-channel), analytic and scholarly papers. The menu of the site is decorated by the real art product – arabesque, which means “Islam in Ukraine”. The site presupposes possibility of usage of different functions: receiving of information from other sources with the help of RSS-channels, search in the articles, built-in forum, discussion of news and articles, etc.
Since 2000 “Assalamu aleikum!” (“Peace be upon you!”) radio-programm is broadcasted, too. Guests of this programm are popular religious, state and civil agents, orientalists, scholars of religious and Islamic studies, and not just Ukrainian. The programm was broadcasted on different radio channels. Since June 2007 it is broadcasted every Sunday at 9 PM on radio “Meydan” (102,7 FM) in Crimea, or on the web-page of this sadio-station (http://www.meidan.com/), or on the page of the programm(http://www.radio.arraid.in.ua/).