In mid-May, Russia’s authorities created a new bureaucratic structure – the North Caucasus Development Ministry. The move came as no surprise: whenever a centralized system of governance is unable to resolve one or other issue, it resorts to creating a new administrative body vested with the...

In the first few months of 2013, the North Caucasus continued to be plagued by the same core unresolved issues that are the main source of tension in that region. Thus, in particular, no systemic solution has yet been provided to the ongoing conflicts in the land sphere, which are further...