Caucasus EmirateThe Caucasus Emirate also known as the Caucasian Emirate is a self-proclaimed successor state to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and was officially announced on October 31, 2007 by former President Dokka Umarov. Its military branch is the Caucasian Front.
North Caucasia is a subdivisions in the southern of Russia,saparate as seven Republics and two Krais Republics: Adygea,
Declaration
On October 31, 2007, the separatist news agency Chechenpress reported that the President of Ichkeria Doka Umarov had proclaimed an Emirate in the Caucasus and declared himself its Emir, thereby abolishing the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and its presidency.[1] The declaration of the Caucasian Emirate was quickly condemned by Akhmed Zakayev, Umarov’s own minister of foreign affairs; Zakayev, who lives in exile in London, called upon all Chechen separatist fighters and politicians to pledge allegiance directly to his government in exile in an attempt to isolate Umarov from power.[2] Zakayev also expressed regret that Umarov had caved in to pressure from “provocateurs” and committed a “crime” that undermines the legitimacy of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.[3] On his part, Umarov rejected any criticism of his move and warned all Chechen separatists not to cooperate with “infidels” or Western countries, and not to negotiate with the Russian government behind his back. He especially stressed that he was against all “infidel” laws or rules, including democracy. Umarov also said that he did not need any sanction from the Majlis-ul-Shura (the council of rebel field commanders) or anybody else to declare the Emirate, as it “his duty as a Muslim” to establish an Islamic state “as required by Sharia.” Anzor Astemirov, a top rebel leader from the Russia’s Kabardino-Balkar Republic (KBR), took credit for the idea of establishing the Emirate. He also said he unsuccessfully tried to persuade the Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev to this already in Nalchik in 2005, but Basayev strongly declined and instead he demanded the KBR rebel leaders to be pledge an oath of loyalty to the Chechen President Abdul-Halim Sadulayev in return of the Chechen assistance in the Nalchik uprising attempt; supposedly, Basayev’s death in 2006 paved the way for the declaration of the Emirate.
Chechnya,Dagestan,Ingushetia,Kabardino-Balkaria,Karachay-Cherkessia,North Ossetia-Alania Krais: Krasnodar,Stavropol And what i know is region of North Caucasia has a wonderfull teritory, and beautifull mountains but beside all the term that have been mention,there are also a struggle for the independent goal to stablish The Islamic Emirates Of North Caucasia for a hundred year’s with a numereus fact of freedom fighters for there people in the North Caucasia. The Russian invade North Caucasia in the middle of nineteen century in the year of 1858. By the end of the 19th century the size of the empire was about 22,400,000 square kilometres (8,600,000 sq mi) or almost 1/6 of the Earth’s landmass; its only rival in size at the time was the British Empire. However, at this time, the majority of the population lived in European Russia. More than 100 different ethnic groups lived in the Russian Empire, with ethnic Russians comprising about 45% of the population. Southern Federal District (Russian: Ю́жный федера́льный о́круг; tr.: Yuzhny federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It is located in the extreme southwest, between Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Its northern portions are part of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, while the southern parts include the Forecaucasus and the Northern Caucasus. Its population was 22,907,141 in the 2002 census, living on an area of 589,200 km² (38.9/km²). The largest cities of the district are Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd with just above one million inhabitants each. The current Envoy is Vladimir Ustinov, former Justice Minister of Russia. Historically, the region was part of Scythia, comprising Scythia Sindica and the Maeotian marshes. Major rivers are the Don, the lower Volga, and the Kuban. It was also inhabited by the Khazars, and the city of Astrakhan was likely named for a Khazar general, Ras Tarkhan.
Structure
The Caucasus Emirate is claimed to be composed of the following wilayahs (provinces):[5]
Vilayat Noxçiyçö (Chechnya)
Vilayat Ġalġayçö (Ingushetia)
Vilayat Dagestan
Vilayat Iriston (Ossetia)
The joint Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkar (Kabardino-Balkaria) and Karachay (the greater part of Karachay-Cherkessia)
Vilayat Nogay steppe (areas inhabited by the Nogay people in Stavropol Krai)
However, according to Umarov, the bases of the rebel fighters loyal to him “spread from Azerbaijan to Abkhazia.”In August 2008 Movladi Udugov, an ideologue and a spokesman for the Caucasus Emirate, said that “as Dokka Umarov very accurately observed, this Islamic state does not yet have any borders. It’s not correct to say that we want to build some sort of enclave on the territory of these North Caucasus republics. No, today many Muslims living in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Russians from the most widely differing regions of Russia who have accepted Islam, swear an oath of allegiance to Dokka Umarov as the legitimate leader of the Muslims. And wherever he is – in Moscow, Blagoveshchensk, Tyumen – when a Muslim swears that oath, he becomes a fighting unit. Just because these people are not visible in their cities just now and are not active, that doesn’t mean that they won’t become active in the future.”
Subdivisions, with republics marked with an asterisk, and with their respective capitals or administrative centers:
Republic of Adygea* : Maykop
Astrakhan Oblast : Astrakhan
Chechen Republic*: Grozny
Republic of Dagestan* : Makhachkala
Republic of Ingushetia* : Magas
Kabardino-Balkar Republic* : Nalchik
Republic of Kalmykia* : Elista
Karachay-Cherkess Republic* : Cherkessk
Krasnodar Krai : Krasnodar
Republic of North Ossetia-Alania* : Vladikavkaz
Stavropol Krai : Stavropol
Rostov Oblast : Rostov on Don
Volgograd Oblast : Volgograd
Presidential plenipotentiary envoys
Viktor Kazantsev (May 18, 2000, – March 9, 2004)
Vladimir Yakovlev (March 9, 2004 – September 13, 2004)
Dmitry Kozak (September 13, 2004 – September 24, 2007)
Grigory Rapota (September 24, 2007 – May 12, 2008)
Vladimir Ustinov (May 12, 2008 – )
