Demographic Consequences of Ethnic and Regional Conflicts in the CIS

Since 1996 there has been no fighting in the post-Soviet space, and the armed ethnopolitical conflicts that occurred earlier are frozen for the moment. However, they are far from over, as the sporadic clashes in Tajikistan, Abkhazia, and other regions attest. The consequences of the conflict are evident even today: peaceful residents are killed by mines; peacemakers and Russian border guards die. In 1998 alone, Russia accepted twenty-seven thousand refugees and forcibly resettled people from zones of armed conflict. The present article summarizes previously published studies and is, in our view, of more than historical interest.1

Armed conflict · Criminology · Development economics · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Sovereignty · Territorial integrity · Law · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends · Russia and Soviet political economy · Soviet and Russian History