Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance

English Language Department

Chair 1

“The Chaos In the Caucasus”

Written by Nebesoff I.,

453. gr.

Checked by Kirillova O.G.

Saint-Petersburg,

2002.

Contents.

Contents. 2

Introduction. 3

Chapter 1. History of terrorism. 4

Chapter 2. Clash, or conspiracy? 5

Chapter 3. Enter the Wahhabis 6

Chapter 4. Geopolicy. 8

Chapter 5. Economy. 9

Conclusion 12

Introduction.

You see, nowadays the Caucasus problem is one of the sharpest and most important for our country. Chechnya and Dagestan are not only oil, but the source of destability and terrorism.

After last autumn events in the United States even Americans and
Europeans understood that war in Checnya is not only Russia’s internal business, and this war, which we have been leading for several years already is not only the wish of the Russian Government and oligarchs to take ‘their piece of pie’ from the Caucasus oil. The world community has finally recognised that threat of world-wide terrorism is not a myth, and this battle has to be led by forces of all countries, which want to live undisturbed.

In this work I am trying to show the roots of Islam movement and the history of confrontation in Chechnya. Another aim of this paper is to show links between Chechnya and world Islamic terrorism, and to show how these links work. Only when we recognise that terrorism is the ‘world-wide web’, civilized world would be able to unite against this, maybe, the greatest evil on the Earth, and, probably, one of the biggest world problems in the new century.

And the last aim was to show how the Chechen war is affecting the
Russian economy, and what losses we have had since this war started

Chapter 1. History of terrorism.

At least until recently, the main enemy of Islamic terrorism seemed to be the United States. However diverse and quarrelsome its practitioners, they knew what they hated most: the global policeman whom they accused of propping up Israel, starving the Iraqis and undermining the Muslim way of life with an insidiously attractive culture.

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