Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 07/2010

Violence in the North Caucasus, Spring 2010: On the rise, again?

June 2010

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Abstract

Since 2008, CSIS staff have tracked, on a daily basis, incidents of violence occurring in the North Caucasus. We have released six previous reports, the last of whichillustrated the dramatic rise in violence in 2009. In this report, we present our data for Spring 2010 (January 1–April 30), with special attention given to the disturbing frequency of suicide bombings.