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	Islam in the North Caucasus
		In the North Caucasus there have been renewed incidences of expulsions and flights of populations, for example Ingush refugees from North Ossetia and refugees from the war in Chechnya.
		The North Caucasus has enormous socio-economic problems, and these have been considerably worsened by the population movements, border closures and economic blockades resulting from the war in Chechnya.
		Ethno-political and territorial conflicts in the North Caucasus are interconnected with similar conflicts in the now independent trans-Caucasian states, particularly in the case of Georgia.
	www.ehess.fr /centres/ceifr/assr/N115/005.htm (8002 words)

	North Caucasus Information
		The North Caucasus (sometimes referred to as Ciscaucasia or Ciscaucasus) is the northern part of the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia.
		Geographically, the term North Caucasus comprises the northern slope and western extremity of the Caucasus Major mountain range, as well as a part of its southern slope to the West (until the Psou River).
		The Forecaucasus steppe area is often also encompassed under the notion of "North Caucasus", thus the northern boundary of the geographical region is generally considered to be the Kuma-Manych Depression.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/North_Caucasus (210 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Kremlin Policies Act as a Catalyst for North Caucasus Violence
		The hostage tragedy in North Ossetia, along with a spate of terrorist episodes in Moscow, is prompting scrutiny of the Russian government’s policies in the North Caucasus, specifically the renegade province of Chechnya.
		In the North Caucasus, the lines separating political and military/security leaders is becoming increasingly blurred.
		The regions of the North Caucasus will need leaders who are not so closely associated to security services if those local governing bodies are to be recognized by the governed as legitimate.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav090204.shtml (986 words)

	North Caucasus: Dmitrii Kozak -- Troubleshooter Or Whipping Boy? - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		Specifically, Kozak brands the leaders of the North Caucasus republics as venal and compromised, alleging that "corporate extended family groupings" within the various republican administrations have "monopolized political and economic resources," destroying the system of checks and balances intended to prevent such abuses.
		In the light of that indictment of corrupt local leaders, it is puzzling that Kozak should have recommended that Putin reappoint for a second term embattled Ingushetian President Murat Zyazikov, whom the Ingushetian opposition claims is widely hated precisely because he turns a blind eye to corruption within the upper echelons of the republic's leadership.
		But any sweeping reform of Moscow's modus operandi in the North Caucasus would be a tacit admission on Putin's part either that he has failed to grasp the nature of the problem until now, and/or that he has made major errors -- for example in reappointing Zyazikov.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/06/5a2ea0a7-20f5-413e-8a7a-c791ef0bb7a2.html (1160 words)

	Caucasus Foundation
		The political leadership in North Ossetia is - as in most of the North Caucasus - conservative out of a fear that changes might imply new conflicts.
		Ossets have the lowest annual population increase (approximately 1 per cent from 1979-89) in the North Caucasus and the highest degree of urbanisation.
		Russians never give up their stronghold in the North Caucasus and the Georgian military highway, the main overland road over the Caucasus range to the Georgian capital Tiflis, the Republic has a strategically important geographical location.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /english/bgkafkas/bukaf_kosetya.html (531 words)

	NORTH CAUCASUS THE REGION, THE REPUBLICS AND THE PEOPLES
		The native population in the North Caucasus is clearly distinct from the main stream of Russian society, in terms of their own sense of identity and in the perce ption of others.
		It became the strongest power north of the mounta ins from the mid-thirteenth century, and was to dominate Russia until the fourteenth century while the Il-Khan Empire, the Persian successor state of Ghengis' Empire extended to the south.
		While the peoples of the North Caucasus discuss possible scenarios for their future, they also express fears that Russia might once again wish to forcibly re-integrate the peoples in a centralized state and combat dissatisfaction with military means.
	www.circassianworld.com /north.html (9535 words)

	Crimes of War > Chechnya Magazine
		The North Caucasus, with its chain of ethnic republics, remains the most troublesome region in the Russian Federation.
		On top of the economic and social problems that are common to all regions of Russia, the North Caucasus faces a number of particular difficulties: the continuing bloodshed in Chechnya, the high level of tension between different communities, and the legacy of earlier conflicts and natural disasters.
		The same is true of North Ossetia; there are a number of experts monitoring the situation, but until recently there have been no long-term NGO programs aimed at improving the situation in the Suburban district.
	www.crimesofwar.org /chechnya-mag/chech-kamenshikov.html (2132 words)

	IWPR: Putin reforms cause north caucasus anxiety \| The Tharwa project
		The political landscape in some parts of the North Caucasus is likely to change drastically with the implementation of President Vladimir Putin's radical proposals to cut back elections, but many analysts believe that in the long run the reforms will not achieve their desired aim of winning Moscow more control.
		The parts of the North Caucasus which are showing the most alarm are those in which the titular ethnic group is in a minority.
		North Ossetia, which has traditionally had the best relations with Moscow of the North Caucasian republics, seems least worried about the plans.
	www.tharwaproject.com /node/440 (1229 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| North Caucasus: At a glance
		The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up towards the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains, often considered the border between Europe and Asia.
		North Ossetia is the most industrialised and urbanised republic in the North Caucasus.
		Although they live in the Southern Caucasus (south of the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains), South Ossetians are closely related to their northern neighbours.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3632274.stm (1092 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Caucasus - Overview
		The Caucasus hotspot spans 532,658 km² in the nations of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, the North Caucasian portion of the Russian Federation (including the Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Northern Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkesia, and Adigea Autonomous Republics), the northeastern part of Turkey, and a part of northwestern Iran.
		The northern third of the hotspot is the broad North Caucasus Plain, the eastern part of which is below sea level.
		Climate throughout the region is variable, with annual rainfall ranging from as little as 150 millimeters in the eastern part of the hotspot on the Caspian Coast to more than 4,000 millimeters in the coastal mountains along the Black Sea.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/caucasus (339 words)

	North Caucasus Muslims under the Soviets
		These orders were to be followed and executed by the local functionaries to the letter, regardless of the ever increasing amount of effort and energy necessary to fulfill the continuously burgeoning required quotas of the people who were to be produced for the Russian hangmen.
		“The Caucasus is the most enlightening demonstration of the reforming and beneficial effects of the Soviet system on the psychology and character of the people who see in the collective system their bulwark, the foundation of their material prosperity and of higher intellectual life....The whole Caucasus has become one mountain village of its people.
		The North Caucassian people were called to appear in Grozny and other points in order to take part in the festivities ordered from the top.
	muslimsonline.com /babri/caucasus1.htm (1992 words)

	North Caucasus State Technical University - NCSTU : official web server
		North Caucasus State Technical University has become not only the center for training highly-skilled personnel for the North Caucasus territory, but it has created favorable conditious for strengthening good-neighbourly relations between the peoples of North Caucasus, thus stimulating stabilization of social-economic situation and reconciliation in the territory.
		North Caucasus Technical University was accredited, and in 1999, July, 29 got a certificate of it.
		North Caucasus State Technical University is the only university in the Stavropol region which has a Federal centre of the global computer network "RUNNet", which opens up quite new perspectives in education, including distance learning and allows to improve radically the efficiency and quality of training specialities.
	www.ncstu.info (1032 words)

	Appeals: Russian Fed. - Chechnya, Inter-Agency Transitional Workplan for the North Caucasus 2007, Situation Reports: ...
		Nearly 80% of the population in the North Caucasus region is estimat ed to live on an income below the national poverty level.
		The need on the ground in the North Caucasus is for a range of assistance proj ects in relief and development to be con ducted simultaneously for several years.
		Because the North Caucasus remains a difficult operating environment in terms of the safety of humanitarian and development aid workers, the UN and most of its partners take exceptional security measures, including use of armed guards and escorts.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6WEA98?OpenDocument (1086 words)

	freedomhouse.org: Press Release
		The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC) at Freedom House will host a panel discussion on February 23, 2006, on Capitol Hill to commemorate the anniversary of the 1944 deportations of North Caucasus peoples by Stalin to Central Asia.
		Between 1943 and 1944, Stalin attempted to wipe whole ethnic groups off the map of the North Caucasus by deporting approximately 700,000 people in cattle cars to Central Asia and Siberia on the premise that they had collaborated with the Nazis.
		The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC) at Freedom House is dedicated to disseminating analysis and knowledge about the peoples, cultures and politics of the North Caucasus and to supporting human rights defenders in the region.
	www.freedomhouse.org /template.cfm?page=70&release=333 (566 words)

	Balkanalysis.com » Blog Archives » The North Caucasus Knot: Adygeya’s and Ingushetia’s Struggle for ...
		Recent events in Adygeya and Ingushetia, two of the smallest republics in the North Caucasus, demonstrate that much work is to be done to normalize the region.
		Alternatively, relations with North Ossetia have been sour since the renewed Ingush claims for Prigorodny Raion, a district that was a part of Ingushetia prior to the Chechen and Ingush Soviet-era deportation in 1944, when it was transferred to North Ossetia.
		The central priority in the North Caucasus is stabilization and regional mergers evidently hinder this process, as nationals begin to concentrate on issues of ethnicity and border redrawing, as opposed economic and political reform.
	www.balkanalysis.com /2006/08/08/the-north-caucasus-knot-adygeyas-and-ingushetias-struggle-for-autonomy (1818 words)

	Russia, Chechnya, West, North Caucasus - JRL 9-13-05
		Indicatively, intelligence experts have long understood that Chechnya and the North Caucasus pose a threat not only to Russia, and that under the worst-case scenario the region could become another Afghanistan, from which terrorists would be able to strike at any target.
		People in the North Caucasus are very isolated, they don't have an opportunity to travel a lot and study elsewhere in Russia.
		Therefore, it is understandable why many officials in Moscow and the North Caucasus will be very suspicious for a long time to come of any European or American proposals to pool efforts against a common threat.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9243-11.cfm (794 words)

	Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - Trouble in the North Caucasus
		The smoldering centers of conflict in the Caucasus and Trans-Caucasus, including those in the areas of the Armenian-Azerbaijanis, the Chechens, the Ossetian-Ingush, the South Ossetians, the Abkhazijans and the Lezgins, are already negatively affecting the situation in the North Caucasus region, as well as Georgia and Azerbaijan.
		Indisputably, the greatest problem for Russia in the North Caucasus is the "Chechen issue," the fact that a state within the Russian Federation's borders does not recognize Russian federal laws and therefore threatens the integrity and security of Russia.
		The Chechen hotbed is the epicenter of the vast troubled region that includes the entire eastern sector of the North Caucasus: Dagestan, which is destabilized by neighboring Chechnya and multiple ethno-national conflicts; the Ossetian-Ingush conflict zone; and the areas of the Stavropol region [krai] bordering on Chechnya.
	fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/trouble/trouble.htm (6159 words)

	Western Resistance: North Caucasus: The Caliphate Cometh
		WR visited North Ossetia, Ingushetia, and Chechnya and met with a wide variety of people on both sides of the conflict, including federal forces and Islamists.
		The peoples of the North Caucasus, however, were converted by the sword, as was the case in most Muslim countries in the world today.
		Given the violence and bloodshed that led to the conversion of the peoples of the North Caucasus, it's no surprise that feelings of violence and militancy remain strong among them.
	www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/003275.html (892 words)

	North Caucasus Research & Heritage Institute
		It has become apparent in recent times that the peoples of the North Caucasus are in danger of extinction outside their native land due to shrinking numbers of native language speakers and deaths of elders in society, as well as pressures to assimilate in societies the diaspora currently resides.
		Yet the debate or research on such matters seems almost nonexistent today and any new discoveries in or about the North Caucasus are usually credited to Russia, the behemoth most guilty of accelerating the extinction of the indigenous population of the North Caucasus.
		This institute is an effort to stem the tide of extinction of North Caucasus peoples, their cultures, and their languages.
	www.ncrhi.net (370 words)

	Global Voices Online » Russia: Sorry State of North Caucasus Journalism
		During the round table that we did prior to the seminar, I suggested that we discuss which form of journalism was the most popular in the North Caucasus - [interactive] civic journalism, informational (traditional), post-Soviet or some other form.
		That's why we decided that, with some exceptions, journalism everywhere in the North Caucasus is Soviet [in style].
		And the rest of them were saying that [their editors] demand that it's crucial to have a thought and their own opinion, even in straight news items.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /2007/01/03/russia-sorry-state-of-north-caucasus-journalism (918 words)

	Wide Angle . Beslan: Siege of School #1 . Interactive Map: What is the North Caucasus? \| PBS
		The North Caucasus region is considered to be the border between Europe and Asia.
		Nestled in the southwestern corner of Russia, the area is comprised largely of mountainous and rough terrain that can be seen as a physical reflection of the history of the area, which has been riddled with conflict and strife for hundreds of years.
		Recently the North Caucasus region has received international attention because of a series of appalling acts of terrorist violence occurring in and around southwestern Russia.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/beslan/map.html (304 words)

	After Maskhadov: Islamist Terrorism Threatens North Caucasus and Russia
		On the contrary, in his last interviews, he advocated expansion of terrorist activities beyond Chechnya to the rest of the North Caucasus, with Russian civilians as the targets.
		The czar was proud of both the plan of his expedition of 1845, (which caused numerous casualties and failed), and of the plan of slow movement forward, despite the fact that the two plans clearly contradicted one another.
		In 1850, the czar again ordered his Caucasus Viceroy, Prince Michael Vorontsov, to “firmly follow my system of destruction of dwellings and food supply, and bothering them with incursions.”[3] The Chechen reaction to the devastation of their settlements and the death of their women, children, and elderly was hardly surprising.
	www.heritage.org /Research/RussiaandEurasia/bg1838.cfm (2063 words)

	ISN Publishing House: The North Caucasus and the Future of Russian Statehood
		It points out that Russia is losing sovereignty over the region, although the corrupt power regimes in the North Caucasus rally for Russia's support in a standoff against contentious society.
		The author claims that the unstable situation is important for the corrupt regimes to prove their importance to Moscow.
		In addition, he claims that powerful forces outside the region have a strong interest in either preserving the present situation in the North Caucasus or aggravating it further.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /pubs/ph/details.cfm?v21=68201&lng=en&size51=20,20&id=17529 (184 words)

	North Caucasus at risk - The Washington Times: Commentary - April 10, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the contrary, in his latest interviews he advocated expansion of the "jihad" beyond Chechnya, to the rest of Northern Caucasus, and targeting Russian civilians.
		The North Caucasus Islamist movement and its allies believe their geopolitical goal -- creating the North Caucasus Califate, a militaristic Sharia-based dictatorship between the Black Sea and the Caspian -- just got a bit closer.
		Russiawide terrorism will escalate, as will "jihad" in the Russian-controlled republics of North Caucasus, where security forces increasingly impose political controls and the Kremlin moves toward setting up its loyalists as presidents and governors.
	washingtontimes.com /commentary/20050409-102739-6102r.htm (951 words)

	International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
		Overview of the Situation in the North Caucasus
		Although the situation in Chechnya appears to be stabilizing on the surface, the underlying conflict remains unresolved and insecurity and impunity continue to reign in the republic.
		While independent reporting on the situation in Chechnya remains restricted, human rights activists addressing issues relating to so-called anti-terrorism policies in the North Caucasus region work at great danger.
	www.ihf-hr.org /cms/cms.php?sec_id=54 (147 words)

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