98. ANALYSIS: Ivan Klyszcz on Russia’s mobilization and the North Caucasus - Dagestan, Chechnya, protests and mobilization
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Ivan Klyszcz, research fellow at the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Tartu, disucsses Putin's mobilization and the North Caucasus - Dagestan, Chechnya, protests and the possible impacts of mobilization.
'the mobilization puts tremendous pressure on the entire Putin system that has been ruling Russia for two decades now, because this system is premised on demobilizing people, making them apolitical and disengaged from the way the country is ruled...'
'my fear is that mobilization in the North Caucasus will create a new cycle of violence in the region'
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