This substantive report on Russian-speaking foreign fighters and Islamic State’s influence in the North Caucasus has been written by CREST Researcher Cerwyn Moore and ESRC-funded PhD Student Mark Youngman.
The report shows that:
- Islamic State has established a patchy toehold in Russia, in particular by linking up with a much-weakened domestic insurgency
- This has lead to a wave of incidents, including an attack in Derbent, Dagestan in December 2015, and an attack in December 2016 in Grozny, Chechnya.
- Whilst other incidents have been attributed to IS, many of these have been rudimentary attacks
- The terrorist threat facing Russia is not reducible to IS.
To read the the full report download it here.
This report is available to download in a variety of formats. This page links to the full report. The executive summary can be found here, and a one-page policy brief here.
Mark Youngman is an ESRC-funded doctoral student based in the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Cerwyn Moore is a CREST-funded researcher and a senior lecturer in International Relations, in the Department of Political Science and International Studies University of Birmingham. He leads CREST’s Actors and Narratives programme.
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