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Mapping the North Caucasus: Russian challenges of Security in the globalised world

Mapping the North Caucasus: Russian challenges of Security in the globalised world. Victor Apryshchenko Southern Federal University, Rostov na Donu , Russia University of Linkoping 22 April 2013. North Caucasus: non-Russian speaking. North Caucasus: Russian speaking.

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Mapping the North Caucasus: Russian challenges of Security in the globalised world

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  1. MappingtheNorthCaucasus:RussianchallengesofSecurityintheglobalisedworldMappingtheNorthCaucasus:RussianchallengesofSecurityintheglobalisedworld Victor Apryshchenko Southern Federal University, Rostov naDonu, Russia University of Linkoping 22 April 2013

  2. North Caucasus: non-Russian speaking

  3. North Caucasus: Russian speaking

  4. Cossacks of the South of Russia

  5. Ethnic and Confession composition • Russian • Ukrainian • Polish • Jewish • Armenians • Christianity • Islam • Buddhism

  6. Caucasian Identity:does it really exist? • In search of Caucasianship • Mentality • Way of life • Cultural stereotypes Factors of integration: • Common natural environment. • Common social and cultural space. • Ethnogenetic relationship. • Common historical past.

  7. Main approaches • Modernisation theory: system transformation • Identity theory: Crisis of identity • Semiology theory: in search of common symbols

  8. Demographic processes • 12% population • Demographically successful regions (Dagestan, Ingushetia) • Demographically depressive areas (Russian-speaking regions)

  9. Migrations 20% of Russian migrant population lives at the North Caucasus • Receiving regions (Krasnodar, Rostov, Stavropol) • Sending regions (former USSR republics), form 372 to 45 thousands people in Chechnya

  10. Ethnic composition of migrant growth, 2001, %

  11. Discrimination, poll data, 2002 Ingushetia – 57 % ChechenRepublic – 40 % Kabardino-Balkariya –29% Dagestan – 17% Vladikavkaz– 54 % (admissioninUniversities). ChechenRepublic – 79% (employment inequality) Adygea – 68% (employment inequality)

  12. Migration reasons,outflow from the North Caucasus • Ethnic and territorialconflicts • Social and cultural separatism • Economic ethnisation • Political Islam • Decline of Russian institutions

  13. Cossack Renaissance DonCossacks at Rostov, KubanCossacksinKrasnodar, TereckCossacksatStavrol Idea of ‘ethnic purity’

  14. Remontnoe Clashes: September, 2012 Rostov region – 4.3 millionpopulation 8,000 ethnic Dargins 10,000 ethnic Chechens 1,740 Dagestan residents living in Remontnoe village (third generation of ethnic Dagestanis)

  15. Governmentdiscourse,AlexsanderTkachev, Krasnodar region, 3 August 2012 “We are glad to gests. Butourmonastery - ourrules” IDEA OF A THREAT “I cannot admit real interethnic clash here and I`m going to resist any accessible methods”

  16. Rising Russian Nationalism? North Caucasus have practically ‘exited from the Russian constitutional, mental, civil and any other space. This is no longer Russia. The generation that grew up there does not equate itself with Russia. In the first place, they are not Russians, but the carriers of Islamic, ethnic, clan or some other identities.’ Andrei Yepifantsev

  17. Reasons of interethnic tensionsin the North Caucasus • Legal • Political and ethnopolitical • Economic • Social • Demographic • Cultural • Religious

  18. Thanks!

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