Purpose and Structure
Kavkaz Center is the news portal of the Caucasian Emirate, a militant network aiming to establish an Islamic state in the Caucasus. The organisation is banned in Russia, and it is on the United States' List of Most Wanted Terrorist Organizations. Kavkaz Center is controlled by Movladi Udugov, a skilled propagandist who follows a fundamentalist strain of Islam.
According to Dr Greg Simons from Swedish National Defence College, "not all of the content on Kavkazcenter can be classified as being extremist and dangerous. However, some material that appears on the website clearly is falling into the realm of extremist and terrorist material." Some of the material on the site calls "for the violent overthrow of the current regime that was created by a invasion and for acts of aggression against the civilian population. As such, according to both Russian and international standards this is extremist and terrorist material."
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