Framework of Russias national policy in the Northern Caucasus: the experience and the lessons of history

Abstract

The Caucasus has always been and now
remains an important hub of national and religious controversy,
fierce military and political confrontation in
which Russia has to take part since the beginning of
its natural geopolitical extension to the south. Hostilities
in the North Caucasus in the 1990s and at the beginning
of the new XXI century affected each local nation
in varying degrees and visibly increased interest to the
historical past of this disquieting region, particularly, to
the polyhedral and complicated history of the state nation-
building in the North Caucasus. This article submits
specific features of Russian national policy in terms of a
weighted objective analysis