Although Russia's so-called counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya was declared over in 2009, there can be no talk of a relaxation of the situation in the North Caucasus. Regular special police operations, raids and armed confrontations with insurgents, as well as recent attacks in central Russia, testify to a continued significant readiness for violence in the region. Furthermore, the cultural divide between the North Caucasus and the rest of the Russian Federation is growing. An Islamization of society from above, along with increasing sympathies among the youth for the Salafist interpretation of Islam, is causing headaches for Moscow. The North Caucasus is now regarded as Russia's internal foreign territory. Despite the urgency of the issue, there has so far been no systematic analysis of Russian counter-terrorism in the German-speaking world. Logvinov's book fills this gap.