ABSTRACT
This chapter consists many of the meanings and policies that are attached to the North Caucasus and its residents in Russia's public and political discourse have been sketched out, and what appears is a region full of controversy. D. M. Rogozin, the dean of the Sociology and Political Science Faculty at the Moscow Higher School for Social and Economic Sciences, visited the North Caucasus in the early 2000s. In Russia, there are a number of political actors who hold distinctively anti-Caucasian and anti-Islamic attitudes, while seeking to exploit growing nationalist sentiments. They often use overtly racist language and argue against state subsidies to the North Caucasus and looking after 'strangers', when people of their own kind are living in need. The borders of the North Caucasian economic region within Russia were demarcated in Soviet times. At the time, it included Rostov oblast, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krai and the republics of Adygeya, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya-Ingushetia and Dagestan.
