Separatism and Islamic Extremism in the Ethnic Republics of the North Caucasus

Author(s): Akhmet Yarlykapov
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 22
Pages: 6-11
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2007

The ethnic republics of the North Caucasus remain a headache and source of alarm for Russia's central government. Moscow's efforts to improve the political climate and the economic situation have not produced the desired results. Today Moscow must support a significant number of intelligence, military, and police personnel in this strategically important region. As the federal government cuts the number of its troops in Chechnya, the number of forces subordinate to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is growing. At the same time, the successful efforts to forcibly remove the separatist fighters from Chechnya during the past few years, has pushed them outside the borders of the Chechen republic. The drop in the number of separatist military operations in Chechnya has been accompanied by a growth in such operations in other North Caucasus republics, particularly Dagestan and Ingushetia, which border Chechnya.

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