Women in Kyrgyzstan are banned from wearing niqabs ... sisters have always worn head scarves as part of our traditions and religion.” ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to ...

“Moneylending and moral reasoning on the capitalist frontier in Kyrgyzstan,” Anthropological Quarterly 91 (3): 1049-74. 2014. “Paradoxes of religious freedom and repression in (post-)Soviet contexts,” ...

For now, Kyrgyzstan's decision places it among a growing number of nations reassessing the role of religious attire in public life—and raises questions about the balance between tradition ...