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The Chechen Conflict: Securitisation or Normalisation?
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be ‘fundamentally restructured’,
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the idea that Chechnya is undergoing a process of
normalisation seems intuitively untenable. Nonetheless, it can be argued that the discourse of normalisation serves as a tactic on the part of the regime – just as much as the discourse of securitisation does – seeking to create an impression amongst the populace both in Chechnya and in Russia itself, as well as in the international community, that the government is in control, that life for the ordinary people is improving, and that the state’s policy is not just a military one, but that it also involves tackling Chechnya’s severe socio-economic problems.
It is also worthy of note that, throughout the fierce attacks by Chechen terrorists
on Russian targets in recent years, Putin’s discourse on Chechnya, particularly in a domestic context, remained firmly committed to political normalisation through the support of accelerated reconstruction, social provisions and economic recovery. It is a different matter that these events effected a notable securitisation of other, sometimes seemingly unrelated issues. The French journalist Gwen Roche has remarked that, although for the time being the Putin leadership’s insistent discourse on the ‘de-securitisation’ and normalisation of Chechnya appear nothing more than wishful thinking, it might have a positive psychological effect on the atmosphere in the republic in the long term.
As a result of … the often proclaimed ‘normalisation’, two parallel worlds have been established in Chechnya. On the one hand, there is the real state of war with the occupying forces responding to guerrilla actions against military targets with massive repressions of the civilian population. On the other hand, there is the official Russian representation, which might appear surreal, but is gaining in realistic content in every-day Chechen life.
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ibid.
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G. Roche, ‘Krieg und Normalisierung in Tschetschenien’, Le Monde Diplomatique (Germany), No
7077, 13 June 2003.
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be ‘fundamentally restructured’,
the idea that Chechnya is undergoing a process of
normalisation seems intuitively untenable. Nonetheless, it can be argued that the
discourse of normalisation serves as a tactic on the part of the regime – just as much
as the discourse of securitisation does – seeking to create an impression amongst the
populace both in Chechnya and in Russia itself, as well as in the international
community, that the government is in control, that life for the ordinary people is
improving, and that the state’s policy is not just a military one, but that it also
involves tackling Chechnya’s severe socio-economic problems.
It is also worthy of note that, throughout the fierce attacks by Chechen terrorists
on Russian targets in recent years, Putin’s discourse on Chechnya, particularly in a
domestic context, remained firmly committed to political normalisation through the
support of accelerated reconstruction, social provisions and economic recovery. It is a
different matter that these events effected a notable securitisation of other, sometimes
seemingly unrelated issues. The French journalist Gwen Roche has remarked that,
although for the time being the Putin leadership’s insistent discourse on the ‘de-
securitisation’ and normalisation of Chechnya appear nothing more than wishful
thinking, it might have a positive psychological effect on the atmosphere in the
republic in the long term.
As a result of … the often proclaimed ‘normalisation’, two parallel worlds have
been established in Chechnya. On the one hand, there is the real state of war
with the occupying forces responding to guerrilla actions against military targets
with massive repressions of the civilian population. On the other hand, there is
the official Russian representation, which might appear surreal, but is gaining in
realistic content in every-day Chechen life.
78
ibid.
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G. Roche, ‘Krieg und Normalisierung in Tschetschenien’, Le Monde Diplomatique (Germany), No
7077, 13 June 2003.
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