The New York Times newspaper writes that just a year ago, Russian authorities were so proud of their success at bringing order to the North Caucasus. NYT marks that even the skeptics among them left impressed: calm, it seemed, had returned into this "crucible of violence", a newspaper writes.
 
However all changed in the summer of 2009, when endless explosions began. According to the senior researcher at the Oslo-based International Peace Research Institute, "the period of stability is quite clearly over" in Provinces of the Caucasus Emirate.
 
As Igor Yurgens stated to the newspaper, "it is ferociously difficult to expand democracy under violent conditions. We are all confused. I think the president is confused".