Alexander Khloponin, plenipotentiary presidential envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District, said that the authorities in the North Caucasus will monitor young people going abroad to study Islam.
This mainly concerns students visiting Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. No monitoring has been held before, Khloponin said, Gazeta.ru reports.
The envoy plans to create two databases: municipal and consulate, and passport services.
Khloponin said that they cannot forbid studies abroad but can have students undergo an adaptation course when they return to explain the basics of a secular state.
