| Summary: | The “Caucasian Emirate”: Great Potential or Illusion of Power?
The article discusses current problems of many years of fighting in the North Caucasus between Islamic militants of the armed underground and the troops of the Russian Federation and its constituent republics of the Caucasus. The mujahideen, led by Dokka Umarov, strive to gain liberation from the domination of Moscow and create their own Koranic state called the “Caucasus Emirate”. In the text the author considers to what extend it is possible to separate the North Caucasus from Russia and turn the area into an independent state. For this purpose, the four elements that make up the state of potential “Emirate” were described: the structure, the number of members declared and supporters loosely associated with the organisation, as well as finance and weapons and the means of acquiring them. On the basis of the above elements, the author presents the armed Islamic underground of the Caucasus militants.
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