Kaitaeva, Khalimat I. , Apazheva, Elena Kh.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2024. IIS 51 (90). P.48-64.

Abstract:
Political extremism continues to remain in the field of scientific interest of scientists
from various fields of science: historians, lawyers, sociologists, psychologists, etc. Although
the time of violent extremism is behind us, no one can say with certainty that it has passed
irrevocably. From time to time, extremist events related to inter-ethnic or religious conflicts
that take on a political issue occur in different regions of the country. This topic becomes
relevant with the conduct of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine and migration flows
from this country to Russia. The demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine recalled
the events on the territory of Chechnya related to the fight against international terrorism.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the forms and methods of extremist militant
technologies tested on the territory of the Russian Federation at the end of the 20th and
beginning of the 11th centuries. The objectives of the study are to analyze the reasons for
the escalation of extremism in the south of the country, the forms and methods of political
extremism, as well as to identify the role of external factors. We have paid close attention
to the latter aspect in this article in order to refute once again the claims that Russia was
fighting against Chechnya and the Chechens at that time. The training of militants, the
supply of weapons, underground gangs, and monetary support for extremism are all links
in the same chain of an external factor – to put pressure on the Russian political leadership
and create a so-called “free Chechnya” on the territory of the Russian Federation as a
springboard for the further collapse of the country. Using historical research methods, we
have identified three stages of extremist activity in Chechnya and conducted a generalizing
analysis of the forms and methods of political and religious extremism over a difficult
historical period.

Keywords: political extremism, hostage taking, religious factor, gangs, Dudayev’s regime.

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