Social Radicalization in Modern Russia and Its Impact on Human Security

Abstract

In the post-Soviet period, the North Caucasus region of modern Russia has become one of the most complex ethno-political regions of the country. The consequences of the ill-conceived cutting of territories and the delimitation of borders between the republics in the early years of Soviet power, the historical memory of the Caucasian War, deportations, exiles, repression, crisis circumstances, mass unemployment, and other socio-economic problems as a result of the severe crisis caused by the collapse of the USSR and liberal economic reforms, which in one way or another affected all neighboring republics, inter-ethnic and intra-confessional conflicts, and the struggle of ethno-clan groups for power, determines the realities of modern life of the population of the North Caucasian region at all levels, from political to domestic, affecting the social, state, and boarder security.