What future for Chechen and North Caucasian fighters in Syria?

Neil Hauer assesses whether Syria’s victorious North Caucasus rebel fighters will settle in Syria, redeploy to Ukraine, or try to bring a jihadist insurgency back into Russia

2022 was a disaster for Russia in the Caucasus too

Neil Hauer traces how Moscow’s disastrous war in Ukraine sabotaged its influence over the South Causasus

2021 was a good year for Russia’s South Caucasus policy

Neil Hauer on how Russia ends 2021 with a stronger hold over security issues across the Caucasus

Russia’s response to Belarus crisis: possible lessons from Abkhazia

Neil Hauer finds Russia’s reactions to popular uprisings in Abkhazia a compelling historical indicator of how Russia might react to the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus

Big Trouble in Little Chechnya

Neil Hauer on how Ramzan Kadyrov’s new round of purges reveal a deep-rooted insecurity

Ramzan Kadyrov’s Next Target

Chechnya’s recent move to grab territory from a neighbour is unlikely to be its last