Mufti Muqaddas-Hazrat Bibarsov, the head of the religious administration of Volgaboyi Muslims, criticized the fatwa of the mufti of Dagestan on the "temporary" prohibition of the niqab. "It is very sad that the Mufti of Dagestan followed the lead of those who are shaking the religious situation in the country..." he wrote.

The fatwa department of the Mufti of Dagestan issued a fatwa on the temporary ban on the niqab. According to him, the ban is due to threats to the security of the republic's population, and it will be in effect until these threats are eliminated and a "new fatwa" is issued. Earlier, the mufti of Dagestan announced that it could not find sufficient Islamic grounds to ban the niqab altogether, but allowed a "local ban" on the wearing of traditional clothing.

The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, opposed the wearing of face-covering clothes, including masks, by women "from the point of view of security". He said that the burqa is a "clothing that is not characteristic of the people of the Caucasus" and added that "men hide behind the headscarf, and women carry forbidden things."

Deputies of the State Duma will soon vote on the draft law on the prohibition of face-covering clothing, including the mask. According to deputies, wearing a mask makes it difficult to identify a person's face from surveillance cameras in public places.