Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday gave their backing to new government proposals for tighter controls on religion, prompted by concern about a rise in extremism in the central Asian state.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, January 22. President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Zhaparov, signed a new law limiting religious influence, ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed into law a measure prohibiting the wearing of face coverings, including full-face ...

“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,” ...