title: A DECEPTIVE LULL: WHY RADICALIZATION OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS CONTINUES
abstract: (By Sergei Markedonov. Slon.ru, April 1, 2016, https://slon.ru/posts/66100.
   Condensed text:) In late March, media outlets reported two
   incidents in Dagestan in as many days. Police cars were blown up on
   the Caucasus Highway and in the Tabasaran District. In the first
   attack, terrorist targeted a group of law-enforcement officers
   recently deployed to the North Caucasus’s largest republic from
   Krasnoyarsk Territory. The Islamic State [of Iraq and Sham, aka
   ISIS], a terrorist organization ba
journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The