Posts Tagged ‘Chechnya’

Russia’s North Caucasus: What Is To Be Done?

Monday’s twin bombings in the Moscow Metro demonstrate that the war in the North Caucasus is neither over nor just a conflict in a peripheral part of Russia. The Moscow attacks came just four months after the Moscow-St Petersburg railway was bombed, showing that Islamist terrorists are capable of carrying out their threats to take… [Read more]

Russia: Containing Trouble Down South

Russia’s annual Caucasus military exercises, which began on Monday, carry added significance this year, since Moscow last week suffered a blow to its regional strategy with the near-assassination of the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. A bit of background here: Ingushetia is an ethnic republic within Russia, tucked in between Chechnya to its east and… [Read more]


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