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Can long beard cause problems in Central Asia and Caucasus?

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Many long-term travelers in Central Asia sport a travel beard. They are not hassled, since police and border guards are aware that they are Western or Eastern and thus not Muslim. Your mileage may vary, since you are perceived to be a Muslim. read more

Back then it was believed that it might cause a domino effect on other Soviet republics, including those in Central Asia, according to a declassified CIA file. Indeed, similar violent conflicts erupted later in Abkhazia and South Ossetia of Georgia, Transnistria of Moldova, and more recently, in Ukraine. read more

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