Contagion of religious extremism in the North Caucasus

The article carries out an integrated study of forms and methods of combating the religious extremism. The author considers interaction of various government branches focused on identifying, documenting and exposing of the activities of terrorist organizations. Special attention is paid to the causes of the extremism emergence in the modern Russia. It has been found, that the popularization of the Wahhabism ideology in the North Caucasus began in 1980-1990-s. Propaganda was carried out by young people who had been educated in the Middle East.