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JULY 2013

The North Caucasus as a ‘buffer zone'

posted by eagle on July, 2013 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

The North Caucasus as a ‘buffer zone'

17 July 2013,
Wednesday

The run up to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics has sparked international media interest in the region, specifically in security risks. Insurgency in the region has long been a threat, and the publicity of an international sporting event could well be used as a platform for campaigning by the self-proclaimed leader of the "Caucasus Emirate,” Doku Umarov. Umarov has repeatedly threatened to stage a terrorist attack; he renewed this warning to the Kremlin just a few weeks ago.

The risk that the Olympics will be used to launch an insurgency attack is a central security concern for Russia right now. However, this debate has so far failed to include any discussion of the South Caucasus states interests, and furthermore the urgent need for Moscow to redraw its post-2014 strategy for the North Caucasus region.

In the last six years, a patron-client relationship between Moscow and the North Caucasus has been established. The region has received more money from ...

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Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 28 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus

posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION

Friday, July 26, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown -- 28 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus

Note: This is my 22^nd special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region. These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the coming year, will not aim at being comprehensive but rather will consist of a series bullet points about such developments. I would like to invite anyone with special knowlege or information about this subject to send me references to the materials involved. My email address is paul.goble@gmail.com Allow me to express my thanks to all those who already have. Paul Goble

‘Mounting Concerns’ in Moscow about Impact of Anti-Gay Law on Sochi. The Moscow Times reports that "concerns are mounting” in Moscow over the impact on the Olympics of Russia’s new law against "homosexual propaganda.” Some fear that an international boycott is a possibility while others are concerned that there will be some LGBT demonstration at the games(http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/detentions-intensify-fears-over-gay-rights/483623.html).

Putin Won’t Back Down on Anti-Gay ...

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Window on Eurasia

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1.Ukraine Offers More Reasons for Optimism than Russia Does, Shevtsova Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-ukraine-offers-more.html

2. FSB Now Targeting LGBTs the Way the KGB Did in Soviet Times

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-fsb-now-targeting.html

3.Abdulatipov’s New Hard Line on Islamists Reflects Deteriorating Security Situation in Daghestan

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-abdulatipovs-new-hard.html

4.South Osetia Wants to Join Russia but Moscow Unlikely to Agree

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-south-osetia-wants-to.html

5.Baltic Countries Take Another Step toward Railroad Independence

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-baltic-countries-take.html

6.South Caucasus Nations Overwhelmingly Anti-LGBT, Poll Finds

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-south-caucasus.html

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Window on Eurasia

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1.Moscow Continues to Implement Soviet Nationality Policy, Svyatenkov Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-moscow-continues-to.html

2.Four Paths for Russia Now Have Leaders, St. Petersburg Scholar Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-four-paths-for-russia.html

3.Novosibirsk Activists Seek Unified ‘Macro-Region’ of Siberia

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-novosibirsk-activists.html

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Window on Eurasia

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1.Moscow Focusing on Extremist Propaganda Rather than Extremist Violence, SOVA Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-moscow-focusing-on.html

2.As Vodka Prices Rise in Russia, Demand for Moonshine Equipment Does as Well

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-as-vodka-prices-rise.html

3.Russia Can Bring to Power a Pro-Moscow Regime in Latvia, Report Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-russia-can-bring-to.html

4.Izborsky Club Wants Belgorod Model to Be Extended to All of Russia

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-izborsky-club-wants.html

5.Sochi Countdown -- 29 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-sochi-countdown-29.html

6.Three Straws in the Russian Wind

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-three-straws-in.html

7.Not all Skinheads in Russia are Ethnic Russians

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-not-all-skinheads-in.html

8.Crackdown on Moderate Salafis in Daghestan Driving Them into the Ranks of Extremists, ICG Expert Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-crackdown-on-moderate.html

9.Russia Stands before Abyss of a New Totalitarianism, Pastukhov Says

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-russia-stands-before.html

10.Russians View Opposition Not as Alternative but as Communications Channel, New Study Finds

windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/07/window-on-eurasia-russians-view.html

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