Kyrgyzstan president: ‘Women in MiniSkirts Don’t Become Suicide Bombers’

And: "If you do not like Kyrgyzstan you can leave our country and go wherever you want. We can pay your travel expenses, even to Syria," the president said - an apparent reference to his government's claim that around 350 Kyrgyz citizens are fighting with jihadi groups in Syria and Iraq.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36846249

Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/08/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-8132016/#more-40605

Without Moscow to keep them in line …

‘Georgia’s Child Brides: Opting for Marriage over School’

“While the Caucasus long has had a reputation for bride kidnapping, early marriages started to soar after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, as civil war and rampant unemployment fomented chaos, researchers say. Parents sometimes would agree to their daughters’ marriages to prevent them from being kidnapped.”

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/73076

‘Kyrgyzstan Sees Rise in Child Brides’

“Kyrgyzstan’s minimum legal marriage age is 18. But since the fall of the Soviet Union, weddings increasingly have been performed by Islamic clergy in a ceremony known as nikaah that is often not registered with the state. Because the marriages fall outside of state control, there is no oversight to ensure the bride and groom are of legal age.”

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/73086