MOSCOW. (Maxim Krans, RIA Novosti political...
was killed recently in a high-profile attack. She monitored the situation in various "hot spots" in the North Caucasus and reported her observations of growing violence to the international community.Both federal and local authorities have been fighting separatism, religious extremism, and terrorism in the North Caucasus for one and half decades, but they aren"t reaching the underlying reasons of these phenomena.
The reasons might seem obvious, especially the economic ones. The old federal targeted program for the development of southern Russia in 2002 through 2006 was not very effective, as admitted by Alexander Torshin, head of the parliamentary commission on Beslan.
The Southern Federal District is still far behind the other constituent entities of Russia in terms of social and economic indicators. For example, the unemployed account for 30% of residents in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, and for up to 80% in the republic"s mountainous areas. In
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