12/07/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Opinion - ISIS Defeats In Iraq And Syria Seen Leading To New Islamist Attacks In Former Soviet Space
The occupation of ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria in recent days does not end the threat that Islamist activists pose. Indeed, according to some observers, it may open a new phase in which ISIS supporters no longer having a territory to defend will instead turn to terrorist actions outside of the Middle East and in particular in the former Soviet space.
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27/06/2016 | En Parrilla
Draconian New Russian Law Seen Driving Religious Believers Underground Just As In Soviet Times – OpEd
The approval by the Duma of the so-called Yarova-Ozerov package of legislation will among other things drive many followers even of Russia’s “traditional” religions into the underground, leading them to ignore the official leaders of these faiths and opening the way to their radicalization, thus restoring the pattern of the late Soviet period.
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18/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dagestan Plans Anti-Terror Units, Worrying Locals
In spite of the violent precedent of such units in Chechnya, President Dmitry Medvedev has vindicated calls by some in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the creation of anti-terrorist and anti-extremist units staffed by local people. That is an indication of just how poorly the existing policing structures are performing and how powerful the threat from the militants has become.
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18/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dagestan Plans Anti-Terror Units, Worrying Locals
In spite of the violent precedent of such units in Chechnya, President Dmitry Medvedev has vindicated calls by some in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the creation of anti-terrorist and anti-extremist units staffed by local people. That is an indication of just how poorly the existing policing structures are performing and how powerful the threat from the militants has become.
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10/06/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Eye on Eurasia: Russia's friends and foes
Russians identify Belarus as their closest friend and ally but say that the Baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia and the United States are the countries most hostile to their own, according to a new poll. But strikingly there is not a single country that more than 50 percent of Russians think is either a friend or enemy of their own.
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