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The dynamics of the insurgencies and the corresponding counter insurgency measures in the North Caucasus are closely linked with the centralization of power and its penetration to the local level, the amount of subsidies, government innovation programs, and other resources. The securitization of governance in response to insurgencies in the North Caucasus has to be seen also in the wider context of a political transformation in Russia towards an autocratic oppressive model with strictly centralizatized distribution of resources. The paper argues that the centralization of resource distribution power leads to stability in the short-term perspective only, since it does not address causes of the spread of radical elements in society.