The North Caucasus: Taking Stock Two Years after Beslan

Author(s): Jeronim Perovic
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 5
Pages: 4-8
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

There have been no major combat operations in Chechnya for several years now. The resistance has dwindled to the point where only a few hundred rebels are carrying on. But despite signs of normalization, the situation remains tense not only in Chechnya, but in the entire predominantly Muslim North Caucasus. Chechnya is only one part of a larger crisis region that is increasingly succumbing to chaos and violence. Two years after Beslan, Moscow still has no recipe for regaining control over the situation.

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