ISIS: a Threat to the Greater Caucasus

... Caucasus Emirate, were eliminated [6] . In Azerbaijan, religious radicals have been split (in the southern part, they look up to Iran and Shiite Islam, while in the northern part – to Dagestan and the Salafi movement) [7] . Commenting on threats to the Georgian national security, Defense Minister Mrs. Tinatin Khidasheli said at the end of July 2015 that she did not expect the Islamic State to create any problems in Georgia [8] . Experts also point out that the adherents of the specific, to put it mildly,...