Authors of report "Northern Caucasus: Quo Vadis?" offer "scenario for civil reconciliation"

On Tuesday, Moscow hosted a presentation of the report prepared by Irina Starodubrovskaya and Konstantin Kazenin, staff members of the Institute for Economic Policy named after Yegor Gaidar and entitled "Northern Caucasus: Quo Vadis?". To encourage the region to recover from the crisis, the report has offered a "scenario of civil reconciliation", including a set of political and economic measures.

The report, based on field research recently carried out by the authors in North-Caucasian regions considers the most serious today's problems in Northern Caucasus and the ways to solve them.

The report consists of six chapters dealing with the crisis of "modernization from above", land crisis, crisis of policy toward elite, crisis of anti-terrorist activities, crisis of religious policy, and image crisis of Northern Caucasus.

The authors see three possible scenarios for the development of the situation in Northern Caucasus: inertial scenario, power scenario, and a "scenario of civil reconciliation." The authors of the report believe the latter scenario is the most appropriate one.

The scenario of civil reconciliation implies promoting the processes of modernization "from below", direct elections, development of civil dialogue, and the unconditional observance of constitutional rights and freedoms, including freedom of conscience, stimulating from the federal level of the processes of adaptation militants to civilian life, abolition of the moratorium on land turnover, and opening social mobility perspectives for young people.