Putin's Secret War in the North Caucasus - By Sarah Mendelson

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Putin's Secret War in the North Caucasus - By Sarah Mendelson | Foreign Policy

2:45 AM caucasian studies, Caucasus, chechnya, conflict, dagestan, ingushetia, north caucasus, POLITICS, Putin, Russia, secret war

I put this news, because something is going wrong in the North Caucasus. At least 10 people die every day in this region. This region is multicultural; there are Ingushes, Dagestanis, Chechens, North Ossetians, and other small societies. But these people are mainly Muslim. Violent incidents include abductions of military personnel and civilians, bombings, assassinations of key civilian and military leaders, rebel attacks, police or military operations against suspected militants, destruction of property by militants, etc. All these incidents are occurring in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, and Dagestan. As a result, someone or something tries to quieten down some people in this region. For more information about this issue, you should read this article. It is really interesting!

Putin's Secret War in the North Caucasus - By Sarah Mendelson | Foreign Policy

İsa Burak Gonca graduated from the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Eastern Mediterranean University of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Masters Program in Political Science and International Relations of the Institute of Social Sciences of Yeditepe University. He is now a PhD Candidate in the Field of the International Relations of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Suleyman Demirel University. He is currently doing his PhD studies on China's energy security and geoeconomic interests in Central Asia.