North Caucasus — a Wall Against or a Bridge for IS?

... people (including young women, as highlighted by the recent and ongoing cases of Moscow students Varvara Karaulova and Maryam Ismailova). In certain ways, some of these radicalized cells and individuals appear to more closely resemble self-generating jihadi cells in Europe than the North Caucasus underground (even if they are still much fewer than homegrown European jihadi cells). Remarkably, this type of cell, not mired in the North Caucasus’ contextual dynamics, is in fact more likely to develop an interest in the ideology ...