we are speaking about the insurgents in the north caucasus throughout the north caucasus and moscow and the rest of russia. theher tactic was employment of women. for those familiar with jihad, this is a new tactic. pioneeredn fighters this tactic. womenaditional role for is a secondary role of supporting fighters. in chechnya, women became the active fighters. it spread to moscow and groups reke hamas or al qaeda we implementing this tactic, as well. another shift was the conversion to radicalism and the employment of adherence terroristic attacks. moscow tobe hard in carry out a lone terrorist attack because of your ethnic profile. the tactics the forces implemented was using the slavs who looked like anybody passing by in moscow to carry out suicide attacks. attacks injority of russia have been performed by .he slavic converts o been trends have concurrent with the trend of radicalization in the north caucasus. it became the center in the north caucasus that first supported the chechen caucuses. entirewe speak about the region as engulfed in an insurgency. thesix republics are under

a number of terrorists from the north caucasus have joined the syrian civil war since it started in 2011. some of these groups have declared that they are loyal to the caucasus emirate's establishes in the north caucasus under the leadership of of -- however some of these factions have joined isis and pledged allegiance to isis and are fighting in the name of isis. moreover some of those mujahideen fight against syria have declared that they will be coming back to russia, that they will be striking against russia and some of them have started coming back to russia and this is a growing concern for the russian government and for the russian security services. .. >> >> also eliminated april and august 2015. o last insurgent leader who had some level of control the organization since then is undergoing a lot of transitions. currently we're not speaking of a unified body but instead of lots of different factions and fighting among them. even in 2010 to be in different groups when the leader of the foreign forces of the north caucuses attempted to take over the caucuses had control of the cau

this summer saw isis establish a province in the north caucasus, and the emirate carcasses, the umbrella organization, operating under a caucasus has had long-standing ties with al-qaeda and its leader has praised the imam as their leader. so no surprise that russian officials including foreign minister lavrov and secretary of the security council had described isis as the main threats to rush him a threat to global security respectively. on the u.s. side that lets a group of whether isis represents a top threat i think fbi director has been quoted as saying it's a top threat to the u.s. national security. so since neither of the united states nor russia can tolerate the existence of the state in the form of isis in the middle east and both countries need to counter al-qaeda and keep it on the run and reduce its possibilities, i would argue there's definitely ground for potential cooperation. that is impeded by different approaches towards syria, although i believe and russian officials have said officially that russia is o

>> i was concentrating largely of the militancy inside russia from the north caucasus. intuitively, gangsters usually find a common language. stalin did with hitler, for example. i would not be surprised if that's the case. .f they come to blows first, they take care of the pro-western liberals. again, that may not just apply to the free syrian army, but historically i would think that .s probably quite accurate as somebody who has been putin and hisn -- ideology and his goals, i agree, his plans with regard to assad are secondary. the most important thing is the implementation of the putin doctrine, which is the recovery of geopolitical assets lost by the soviet union in the fall of the soviet state. he wants to establish the presence of russia in the middle east as the dominant outside player. the second thing, let's not forget that assad for no assad, the only thing that a russian pollster told me -- the only thing that is going for this regime, the putin regime, is putin's popularity. popularity?get this he gets this popularity by embodying the thirst and the hunger

i was concentrating largely on the spread of fundamentalism, militancy inside russia from the north caucasus. but intuitively, you know, gangsters usually find common language. stalin did with hitler, for example. so i would not be surprised if that's the case, and in any case they do come to blows up first they take care of the pro-western liberals. and again, you know, that may not just apply directly to the free syrian army, but historically i would think that that's probably quite accurate. as somebody who's been dealing, studying putin and his ideology and his goals, i agree that, even regardless of what his plans are with respect to assad per se, i think they are secondary. i think the most important thing to putin in syria is what i call the implementation of the putin doctrine, as i articulate a few years back, which is the recovery of geopolitical assets lost by the soviet union in the fall of the soviet state. he wants to establish the presence of russia in the middle east as probably the dominant outside player, that's the first thing. the second thing let's not forget that assad

point atg a tipping which fund the last -- fundamentalist, militant islam is migrating from the north caucasus into russia itself, i tonk this is a huge threat russia and the world. that, these types of things are usually enhanced by two mastic political crises and pressures. russia is in a precarious state economically. strains, all kinds of and i think, while we are the failed state in syria, we should worry about how terrorism could become an issue for russia and us. mr. saradzhyan: i would like to reiterate that the u.s. and russia share common interests in countering terrorism and proliferation threats that emanate from syria and iraq, .eaning terrorists groups regardless of disagreements on the future of assad, both countries should work together to counter that threat, which is much more threatening, much more oferior than the intricacies transitions in syria. prof. katz: the rise of jihad is an and russia is not in moscow's interests and is not in the interests of the west either, but this rise of jihad is some and russia isn't occurring in a void. the tragic situation is that russia's

indeed we are witnessing a tipping point at which fundamentalist militant islam is migrating from north caucasus into russia itself, i think this is a huge threat to russia and the world. that, these types of things usually are enhanced by domestic political crises and .ressures and russia is in a very precarious state economically, politically, even though putin would not admit it. there are all kinds of strange -- strains. we should also worry about how the terrorism could become an issue for russia and us. i would like to reiterate that u.s. and russia share common interest in countering proliferation threats that emanate from syria and iraq, meaning terrorist groups based there. ofhink regardless disagreements on the future of assad, both countries can and should work together to counter is much morewhich threatening, much more superior than intricacies of transition and syria. thank you. him --rise of jihad is jihadism in russia is not in the best interest of russia or american os either. americat -- or in either. it is not happening in a void. they are not treated very well by russian gove