By Fatima Tlisova. Fatima Tlisova is a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Moscow is boosting its programs to support Cossack communities in the Caucasus. The Russian president’s advisor for Cossack affairs, General Gennady Troshev, recently toured the republics of the North Caucasus and met with their respective presidents. The discussions focused on the issues related to government support for the Cossack communities, providing them with office space, government jobs, and involving Cossack troops in protecting the state borders of the Russian Federation (adjoining Georgia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus) and in combating terrorism and extremism. Read more...
- The Jamestown Foundation, Chechnya Weekly - Volume 9, Issue 14 (April 10, 2008)
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