Commentary
Nikolay Petrov
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Two Militants Allegedly Behind Blasts at Hydropower Plant Killed
The attack at the Baksan hydropower station may be a sign that the militants in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria are switching to guerilla warfare and that the authorities must rethink their strategy for how to deal with the North Caucasus.
Published on Jul 26, 2010
Source: Russia Today
On July 21, four blasts rocked the power plant, damaging three electric generators, while another bomb was found unexploded and subsequently defused. The attackers, reportedly at least six men, murdered two security guards. They also beat and tortured two turbine room workers in order to find out the location of the control switches.
On Russia Today, Nikolay Petrov said that this form of attack could be a dangerous sign that the militants are switching to guerilla warfare, which is harder for authorities to respond to. Petrov underscored that the authorities must rethink and revise their whole concept for how to deal with the North Caucasus. It is necessary to approach to this problem with a new kind of strategy, not just new tactics, he contended, and to consider the necessary steps for the social, political and economic modernization of the region.
About the Author
Nikolay Petrov
Former Scholar-in-Residence, Society and Regions Program, Moscow Center
Nikolay Petrov was the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. Until 2006, he also worked at the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he started to work in 1982.
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