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Golden Minbar International Film Festival

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “annual event which provides a forum for muslim filmmakers”. Today it says “redirect from a page that was merged into another page”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “The International Festival of Muslim Cinema”. It now reads “Redirect to: Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema#”.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Golden Minbar» is an annual event which provides a forum for Muslim filmmakers . It is a showcase for Islamic Cinema and Muslim Cinema .1 It provides a place of regular meetings and an exchange of experience of further cooperation among filmmakers of Russia and the Muslim countries and the entire world.2 The festival is open to not only Muslims, but also the representatives of other faiths creating films, popularizing universal spiritually-moral and cultural traditions.3 The purpose of the festival is creation of objective representation in Russian and the world community about Islam and Muslims.4 The high award of the festival is the «Golden minbar» statuette worked out as a reel of cine-film with the ends transforming into the waves carrying the ark with a minbar - a place from where the imam preaches-.5

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “annual event which provides a forum for muslim filmmakers”. Today it says “redirect from a page that was merged into another page”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “The International Festival of Muslim Cinema”. It now reads “Redirect to: Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema#”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

annual event which provides a forum for muslim filmmakers

Now

redirect from a page that was merged into another page

Sections that no longer exist

Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 3 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 3,959 characters shorter.

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