22 year old widow. She has no reason to live? Jihad is too convenient a word for iconic strikes against governments and innocent people. These militants remind of the KKK. They have high esteem for themselves while they objectify others.
US intelligence has been accepted by Russia to help with Olympic security.
The response to the violence caused by this region of Russia created different majority hate groups. The Russian government needs to dialogue with the public to suppress hate driven speech. The more these Muslims are hated, the more the hate will be returned.
Russia has an intractable situation with it's people in regard to the Caucuses. Russia can return function to their society by dialoguing first with peaceful demonstrators in Moscow. I am sure these demonstrators have some leaders that can carry their message. If Russia promotes respectful speech it would begin to defuse hatred.
It is not unusual in the USA for minority populations to have community leaders that understand circumstances of the people. These leaders come forward at the times of trouble. They speak for the people. Often, the community leaders can move government to solve the problems the people are facing. If nothing else it proves the government can respect individuals and agree to seek solutions to problems.
The Caucasus Region can have community leaders as well that understand respect and the importance of avoiding violence to move a government to solutions and not confrontation. It may be that violence has become a solution because the current iconic leaders will be arrested and held accountable for deaths. The community leaders have to come to realize these iconic leaders have hurt the outcome of their people. They have to realize if they step back from the violence they will have better outcomes because the government will respond to them. If Russia is chronically faced with militarized response, there is no chance for real solutions to develop.
I believe Russia is locked into intractable circumstances. It isn't as though Russia is incapable of settling disputes. Russia understands diplomacy. They need to practice it domestically as well. The hatred in this case is based in ethnic and religious differences. Better outcomes need to fight not each other, but, poverty.
11.06.13
On Monday afternoon, (click here) Russian nationalists and fascists marched in 15 well-organized blocs down Moscow’s streets in honor of national Unity Day. Their leaders said some 20,000 people turned out to agitate in the Russian capital; officials put the number lower, around 8,000. They shouted demands that ranged from “A Visa Regime for Central Asian and Caucuses migrants!” (currently, immigrants from the region do not need visas to work in Russia) to race-based obscenities. The angriest group, comprised mostly of teenage boys and men in their early 20s, damned the Caucuses using the rudest verb in Russian slang. Some even humiliated the name of Allah....
