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Rubles Against the Insurgency: Paradoxes from the North Caucasus Counties

As part of its counter-insurgency strategy in the volatile North Caucasus region, the Russian government has stressed economic development and invested considerable resources into the region. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin…

Russia’s Gordian Knot: Radical Nationalism, the North Caucasus, and Migration

With the legislative and presidential campaign of 2011-2012, Russia is entering a phase of uncertainty, and debates that have hitherto been reserved for the establishment have become ever more visible.…

Prospects for Islamic Radicalism and Violent Extremism in the North Caucasus and Central Asia

The decision by leaders of the armed separatist movement in Chechnya in the late 1990s to embrace a radical Islamic agenda raised concerns that Islamic terrorist groups would seek to…

Why Young People Turn to Islam in the North Caucasus

Next to the apartment building I live in, there is a mosque. Ten years ago, when it was still under construction, I walked past it with a good friend of…

Xenophobia in Russia: Are the Young Driving It?

Since the mid-1990s, human rights groups, scholars, government agencies, and the media in the Russian Federation have documented a rising wave of individual and group acts of violence, destruction, or…

On Double Standards: Toward Strategic Liberalism in U.S. Russia Policy

Over the past year, perhaps no single theme has become more prominent among Russian diplomats, officials, and journalists commenting on relations with the United States than the refrain that the…

The Coming Revolutions in the North Caucasus

A specter is haunting Eurasia: the specter of revolution. Ironically, this time Washington stands accused of promoting subversion while Moscow emerges as the headquarters of counterrevolution and conservative order. Serbia,…

Instability in the North Caucasus and the Political Implications for the Russian-Chechen War

Over the past few years the various forms of warfare in Chechnya, including guerrilla operations against Russian federal forces, suicide bombings and assassinations directed against the pro-Russian Chechen government, and…

Has Russia Achieved a Victory in Its War Against Terror?

Russia launched its own war against terror in September 1999 when the country, shocked by twin bomb attacks in Moscow, made a contract with newly appointed prime minister Vladimir Putin.…

The Changing Context of Russian Federal Policy in the North Caucasus

A year ago, the prospects for stability in the North Caucasus appeared dim at best. Violent clashes, bombings, and terrorist attacks in Chechnya remained common and continued to produce bloodshed,…

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