http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18542&Itemid=132

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom’s Eleventh Annual Report on Religious Freedom, released on April 29, paints a bleak picture of the state of religious freedom in the North Caucasus. It states that the region –particularly in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria– is facing “chronic instability due to severe economic dislocation, especially among young men; certain radical foreign influences on indigenous Muslims, and endemic corruption and local political grievances.” All these factors, the report adds, are fuelling “increasingly widespread and sometimes violent expressions of popular dissatisfaction by Muslims with the local and national Russian government.”