Northern Caucasus

(1) The territory encompassing Ciscaucasia and the northern slope of the Greater Caucasus, with the exception of the eastern portion of the Greater Caucasus in the Azerbaijan SSR. The Northern Caucasus also includes part of the southern slope of the Greater Caucasus, from the western tip of the Greater Caucasus to the Psou River on the boundary of the Abkhazian SSR. The Northern Caucasus encompasses the southern part of Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar and Stavropol’ krais, the Kabarda-Balkar ASSR, the Severnaia Osetiia ASSR, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, the Dagestan ASSR, and part of the western part of the Kalmyk ASSR.

(2) A name for the Northern Caucasus Economic Region of the USSR, a region including Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar and Stavropol’ krais, the Dagestan ASSR, the Kabarda-Balkar ASSR, the Severnaia Osetiia ASSR, and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR but not the western part of the Kalmyk ASSR, which extends into Ciscaucasia.

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Just recall for a moment topics such as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and the northern Caucasus region of Russia, where Islamic radicalism is alive and well.

Russian crisis and total loss of control

Turkish authorities have so far refrained from naming the suicide bomber but reports in Turkey and Russia on Friday identified her as Diana Ramazanova, 18, from the northern Caucasus region of Dagestan.

Around 3,000 people in Turkey linked to 'Islamic State' group

In some parts of the Northern Caucasus and Central Asian regions, Islam is the main religion.

Russian Archpriest: Future Belongs to Muslims

In Russia, the group has been active in the Northern Caucasus as well as in the mainly Muslim Volga regions of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan.

Russia detains alleged banned Islamists in St. Petersburg

The three were childhood friends with roots in the northern Caucasus, a hotbed of Islamist militancy, where they played football together.

World Cup sparks Islamist debate on football's integrity

Alexander Borodai, who calls himself the prime minister of the republic, said the fighters from the northern Caucasus, although not ethnically Russian, ''share much of the same ideology.

Militants from Chechnya fight in Ukraine; Official denies sending forces, says he is powerless to stop them from joining combat

The Northern Caucasus and its vicinity already is a tinderbox; acquiring more territory with disaffected Muslims would undoubtedly yield further security challenges.

In Ukraine, as in Syria, Putin has backed incompetent, brutal partners

What is known already is that Caucasus Emirate, an organization that aspires to establish a hardline Islamic state in the northern Caucasus is allied with Al Qaeda.

Volgograd and Central Asia

Russia has a far worse terrorism problem than the United States, because some six million citizens, living in the Muslim-majority republics of the northern Caucasus, belong to various ethnic groups who see themselves as living under Russian occupation.

Security spending offers poor returns

htm) Islamist insurgency which has spilled over to other regions of the northern Caucasus, like Dagestan.

Russian MP Drops Golden Gun During Fistfight in Parliament

By contrast, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, weighed in with a piece on the Tsarnaev brothers that opened with Stalin's banishment of the Chechen people "from their homeland in the northern Caucasus to Central Asia and the Siberian wastes".

The message from Boston

The importance of the "Circassian question" (see table 1) is systematically muted by the Russian authorities insofar as it affects, firstly, policy towards Abkhazia, and, secondly, the situation in the Northern Caucasus.

Is leviathan back? Circassian ethnic mobilization after the 2012 presidential elections in Russia