A nineteenth-century map of Kazan. For
the past two decades, Russian and Western experts, human-rights
activists and journalists have become accustomed to the political
violence of the North Caucasus. No matter how sad it is to receive news
of new terrorist bombings or sabotage acts from Dagestan, Ingushetia and
Chechnya, these acts are perceived as somehow inherent to the region.
But a recent tragedy in the Volga region suggests that this sort of
violence—and the Islamist terrorists that practice it—may not be
confined to the Caucasus.Read More.........................
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