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introducing a nationwide legal ban on the niqab, a full-face veil worn by some Muslim women.The debate was triggered by a report that one of
the armed assailants had planned to escape from the manhunt by wearing a niqab
Though this report was not confirmed, local spiritual authorities in at least three Russian regions have since issued Islamic law rulings
communities of the Caucasus and the Volga-Ural regions and in the republics they populate.Most Russian Muslims adhere to the Hanafi school
Court upheld a ban on wearing an Islamic scarf, the hijab, in schools imposed by local authorities in the Orthodox-majority republic of
educational institutions over their refusal to take off a headcover emerged from various corners of Russia, including the Vladimir region,
chief religious authority, as well as the muftis of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan.Adam Dilimkhanov, a Chechen deputy in the federal State Duma
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