It should be understood that the terms “Russian troops”, “Russian military” and “wooowee Russians” – in addition to cognate words contain nothing in common.
The Russians (in all its multi-ethnicity), leaving the volunteers in different parts of the planet is independent and separate personality, which in no way belong to the Russian army, as to defend someone’s interests by their own convictions, and not by order.Not call you all the tourists – expats? And there is no need to shift the definition.
Russian army is our army. Which officially acts on the territory of Russia, and in the event of armed conflict to protect the peace and life of the country. Some of the troops, in our case aircraft, can be sent to the aid of another country at its request. What we did in Syria.Well, the Russian military is the ethnic component of the army. Cannot be separated from the army, because together with other ethnic groups is a rich and diverse Russian society.
Russian orientalist Yevgeny Satanovsky not restrained in his statements:
“Shamil Basayev was a Russian citizen, Doku Umarov was also a Russian citizen. Russian citizens actually different. There are Russian citizens — terrorists, bandits, Islamists.
Because if all those who go to Syria or Iraq — there will remain (since a good part of them), so they in Russia terrorist attacks will not be engaged”.
So, after we finally decided on the terms, get back to not such a far 2011. The war in Syria at that time had already passed, the confrontation between Syrian army, rebels and private militias were gaining momentum, the flow of refugees was growing up, but the Russian society, and the world as a whole, too, was away from these events. Then we didn’t know anything about the IG has not yet begun mass werbicki in the ranks of terrorists. Or are we just nothing they did not know about?
Dorofeev, Karaulova, Pogorelova – just three very famous examples. These young people have fallen for the tricks of terrorists, as young people from other countries. Thousands of people go to “fight for Allah”, but nobody ever saw those who fought and returned.
But all this came after the extension of funding of the IG, after his promotion, after talking about Syria with all the TVs of the world. Yes, now really social. the networks are working, are looking for girls for the so-called “sex Jihad” and young guys who are expecting to experience “the romance of Jihad”.
We went back to 2011, when the IG and the recruitment have not been in this spreading phenomenon. Then the war in Syria was interested in exclusively Russian Muslims.
In 2011 he started to record facts of departures of Wahhabis from the North Caucasus and the Volga region in Syria. One of the main suppliers of human resources has become Tatarstan.
If we turn to the materials of the report of the orientalist Raisa Suleymanova, we will be able to track multiple patterns was designed this way. It is the Muslims of Tatarstan the most positive feedback caused the defeat of the Russian army in the First Chechen company.
“After the formation of virtually independent Ichkeria she began to drive not only the nationalists (the most famous textbook was the visit of one of the leaders of the Tatar public center Rafis Kashapov, where he spared no praise in person at the address of Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev), but also the Wahhabis. A group of Islamists from Naberezhnye Chelny headed by Airat Vahitova and Irek Hamidullin decided to make “Hijra” in Ichkeria where he was willing to infiltrate Sharia rules,” Suleymanov writes.
First, the visitors are seen as “mishandled Cossack” from the FSB, but the loyalty and devotion has opened to them a genuine desire for Jihad.
After the Second Chechen campaign it was necessary to look for a different “territory of Islam”.
A small digression:
“Those Muslims who do not share the idea of “takfiri”, are accused of unbelief, and in respect of any action valid. In Russia, the Wahhabis”asperity” away for some time in some Muslim countries, live there, receive military and ideological experience and then return home to the territory of “Dar-al-Harb (territory of war”), there to expand the “Jihad”.
The beginning of a large “Jihad” in Syria in 2011 led to what is now the radical Islamists from Tatarstan was chosen to travel to this country for the “experience” instead of Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Against Bashar al-Assad began to fight not only deserters, allied with the Syrian free army, but also the whole international Wahhabi international, which is replenished by immigrants from Russia. According to estimates of the Supreme mufti of Syria in 2012-2013 Huldah in the ranks of the fighters against the legitimate government of this country fought to 2 thousand Russians, of which about 1700 were Caucasians, and the rest were in the regions of Volga and Siberia. Now this figure, of course, more. According to preliminary estimates, up to 2 thousand people a year could leave the territory of Syria.
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This is what we find in the article of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” already for 2013:
“It became known that on 6 and 7 may in the province of Aleppo Tatar troops suffered heavy losses, killed 60% of the personnel. In addition, in the Damascus province, in the village of Haraszti, when you try to liberate this town was completely killed another Tatar group.
In an anonymous message on the popular social networks, the Islamist-separatists appeal to inhabitants of Tatarstan, begging for help. Urgently need guys-Muslims for warfare. And do not anyhow who, while physically fit men up to 40 years.”
Experts note that on the territory of Tatarstan is not only a lot of recruiters interested in sending people to Syria, but also those who act under orders of the more experienced “colleagues”.
But back in 2010 the residents of the Tatar capital actively promoted the “Islamic world”.
In the comments under this entry is long, not very correct discussion. But even then felt a sharp critique of the imposition of Islamic traditions. In 2010, residents of Tatarstan suggests that the region has many religions, but no one is engaged in active propaganda.
Apparently, over the years, activists have become more cautious. And yet, these are the numbers – not the limit. How many are actually Russians fighting in Syria, on which side, what the agitation is carried out on Russian territory and most importantly – are “jihadists” terrorist attacks in Russia – and remains a mystery.
And, most importantly, as I said. No one who was recruited and left, never returned. Think about it.
