Women not thinking much. I can believe that.

Especially when referring to religious issues, intolerable carries a connotation of disgust and condemnation. I think it also carries an implicit threat of action to stop or punish the action being judged.

I think, given Ian’s correction of the softer synonyms I had originally translated for the Uzbek term, that there’s less of a case to be made that there were deliberate shades of meaning emphasized in one translation or another. What probably happened is that somebody looked it up in the dictionary and picked a synonym—and since the translator doesn’t seem to have been a native English speaker, I don’t know that they were conscious of the difference that I’m seeing.

If you have an argument, feel free to make it.

The only difference of any potential significance that jumps out at me is that the English version ends by saying that Bukharan authorities have decided women’s presence in the mosque for Friday prayers is “intolerable,” while the Russian version (недопустимое) is I think closer to a simple “unacceptable”

Would you elaborate, what exact synonym of (недопустимое) seems obviously better to you in Russian version of that article?