According to the order of the President, it is planned to conserve and restore Osman Mushafi, known as "Tashkent Qur'an". This book is kept in the museum-library of the "Moyi Mubarak" madrasa of the Office of Muslims of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. The manuscript was rewritten in the Hijaz script in the 7th century by the order of the third caliph Usman ibn Affan.

Hollywood star Will Smith announced that he read the entire Koran during Ramadan. "I was struck by its simplicity... The Qur'an is simple and everything in it is crystal clear... and after reading it, it is very difficult to have any misunderstanding," he said.

The court of Grozny sentenced Nikita Juravel, a resident of the Volgograd region of Russia, to 3.5 years of imprisonment for protesting the burning of the Koran. The defendant partially admitted his guilt.