This article was originally published on Ria Novosti
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Thus the abominable has happened yet. At 14:30 on Monday, a suicide bomber detonated his bomb in the arrival hall of the international airport Domodedovo. The attack, which occurred after the visit of Russian President Middle East and on the eve of the World Summit in Davos, was clearly aimed at weakening both the Russian authorities worry that the international community, including targeting foreigners. The heavy toll, 35 people died and 180 injured. Russia learns we could also end the year worst since 2010 the suicide bomber from the airport would be linked to a terrorist cell, during the identification and dismantling , who planned an attack on Red Square December 31 evening.
Even in this difficult time, Russia has not entitled to much criticism and little support. Special mention to the French press has yet distinguished. For Helen White on France-Info, for example, must be especially careful, she says, citing the series of attacks that had killed 293 in Russia in 1999: "These attacks were not the work of Chechens which one have been assigned but the work of the FSB. For Anne Nivat : "Medvedev as Putin exploit the obsession with security to get votes and they got elected thanks to their rhetoric on Chechnya." For Le Figaro correspondent in Russia, Pierre Avril "the country would be facing a quasi civil war." Finally for Vincent Jauvert , the attack demonstrates "the failure of the Putin system". This assertion has already been hammered this summer, when the fires that have struck Russia had supposedly demonstrated bankruptcy of a hypothetical system Putin. In addition, he adds: "corrupt and incompetent, the security services have not identified the suicide bomber."
Yet, far from the editorial offices of the upscale suburbs of Moscow or Paris, on the ground, the results of Russia on anti-terrorism are quite eloquent. For the single year 2010, in the North Caucasus, 301 terrorists were killed and 468 arrested, 4,500 raids were conducted and 50 major anti-terrorist operations. 66 attacks have been thwarted, even if 500 terrorist acts (including 92 explosions and attacks) have killed over 600 people. Russia to 2010 alone, more than 360 Russian policemen have died in the line of duty.
course, the Muslim Caucasus, Chechnya head, long been presented by the media Western world as a region occupied by the tyrannical Russia, but aspiring to independence and freedom. Terrorism in the Caucasus would be a kind of desperate reaction of oppressed peoples. The French, with the nostalgia of the Gaulish village besieged by the mighty Rome and misinformed about the reality on the ground, could only be seduced, at least for a large part of them. Yet it is not. The goal of terrorists is not to liberate oppressed peoples but to enslave them. Caucasian terrorists are linked to Islamist under strong foreign influence, Wahhabi, connected it to a revolutionary and destructive ideology, which aims at establishing an Islamic Emirate in the whole region. This core Wahhabi probably has its roots in the first Chechen war, when many foreign auxiliaries (Arabs, Afghans ...) have joined the Chechens, thinking to transform the war for independence in a religious conflict and bring the holy war in region. We know what happened, Chechen nationalists, they lost the war on the ground against the federal army, were ultimately obtained for Chechnya autonomy very important, political and religious, but within the federation. Tensions between Caucasians and even strangers have exploded into the open, first failing to recognize that the methods of the latter difficult and intransigent radical, far Sufism from the Caucasus, which was still any less accommodated local traditions. Ramzan Kadyrov also recently proclaimed symbolically defeat of Wahhabism in Chechnya.
The separation of the Caucasus and Russia as the Wahhabis and the Islamists want and some foreign intellectuals does not represent a solution. It seems clear that the primary consequence of such a decision would deliver the region to internal conflicts with the likelihood that it will soon become a hotbed of regional terrorism. We must also remember that these regions of southern Russia are mostly longer than Russian Nice is definitely become French. Finally, many Muslims feel Russian Caucasians and full citizens of the federation, they represent one facet of multicultural identity.
It would be nice if foreign commentators focus their energy and their attacks on criminals and not the Russian state. As far as I know, from Madrid to London or Moscow, the victims are the victims of a single terrorism. I do not think that when similar events have affected other European democracies, like Spain or England, in 2004 and 2005, reading from Russian commentators that the attacks meant a failure of the governments of these countries or that the security services have not done their job. For the simple reason that it is virtually impossible to prevent all terrorist attacks. The Spaniards, Israelis, Turks and Indians, whose countries are often targeted by terrorism have long understood the need for drastic security measures to prevent the most of these attacks, with varying degrees of success. These measures even if they restrict certain liberties are undoubtedly essential for life to follow a peaceful course despite the threat.
minds are prepared if further attacks occur, Russia and perhaps even in the capital, which unfortunately seems inevitable. The goal of terrorists is always to frighten the population and destabilize society. But no circumstances do we need to Russian citizens and foreigners leave us destabilize. Quite the contrary, the coordination of a voluntary state and decided, and a cohesive and caring people which is the best bulwark against terrorism. Russia has the ability to overcome these hardships. As aptly summarized Pimanov Alexei, the program presenter Chelovek i Zakon (Man and Law) in the recent issue devoted to these events: "Those who spontaneously and voluntarily offered their assistance following this attack, who carried free of charge from the airport to subway passengers, those who gave their blood and helped rescue in the first difficult moments, these people represent the real Russia. "
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