Andrey Izerov - About the Caucasus

Andrei Iserov writes deputy dean of the faculty of humanitarian sciences “Higher School of Economics”:

“The Caucasus is not the most huge space, but the connecting link between the two seas, forest and the steppe. This is an ancient land, it has always been an economic intersection. The steppes have always been a gate of invasions from the East, and some peoples of Dagestan are the descendants of these waves of invasions.

The territory from the Northern Black Sea region up to Southern Siberia and Northern China is a single archaeological space. At the junction of the years near the time of the birth of Christ, it was a single world of the steppe, united by conquering campaigns and trade.

When the Russian Empire united the Caucasus, its economy began to grow, since the region connected to a huge growing market. Not because there was nothing before, but because by this time the world economy and trade began to rely on industrial production.

The Transcaucasia is unresolved, and no one will help the Russian Federation settle it, but on the contrary, they will interfere. One can imagine in what state the national economy of the North Caucasian republics would be in the 1990s. The region split.

The Caucasus is a gate facing the Caspian, to the world of the steppe, from where the conquerors once came. Obviously, the time has come to strengthen international trade through the Caucasus on a new basis. ”