ABSTRACT
Although it had been visible for at least the last decade, in the aftermath of the bomb attack in May 2010 outside the House of Culture and Sport in Stavropol' it became clear that ethno-nationalist conflict is a reality for people in Stavropol' krai. The attack, responsibility for which is believed to lie with Russian nationalists, 1 took place only moments before a Chechen dance ensemble were due to perform on stage. Three years earlier, in the summer of 2007, six weeks of interethnic rioting in Stavropol' left three students dead (one ethnic Chechen and two ethnic Russians) and numerous others injured (Foxall 2010). And the geopolitics of Russo-North Caucasian relations has been manifest in numerous other examples of interethnic conflict in Stavropol' krai since 1991.
