The Redeployment of Chechnya-Based Troops to Dagestan: Background, Motives, and Repercussions

Abstract

This article is an attempt to explain the causes and consequences of the Spring 2012 redeployment of Chechnya-based troops of the Russian Ministry of Interior to Dagestan, a neighboring republic on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Keywords

• Chechnya
• Dagestan
• Russia
• insurgency
• counterinsurgency