In the coming decades, challenges from the North Caucasus will constitute the most serious threat to Russia; the entire region is rife with problems. Russia’s other Muslim enclaves are not safe from the threat of conflict, either.
In the coming decades, challenges from the North Caucasus will constitute the most serious threat to Russia; the entire region is rife with problems. Russia’s other Muslim enclaves are not safe from the threat of conflict, either.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.