Region Kaukazu Północnego w lustrze polskiego reportażu (,,Matrioszka w hidżabie” Iwony Kaliszewskiej i Macieja Falkowskiego)

Abstract

"Matryoshka doll in hijab" is the result of years of research in the Caucasus region, led by Iwona Kaliszewska, an anthropologist and ethnographer, and Maciej Falkowski, a diplomat and analyst from the Centre for Eastern Studies. The reportage comprises two parts, the first one dedicated to Dagestan, the second – to Chechnya. The division of the text is a message (or metaphor) in itself: the North Caucasus is not a monolithic land, embracing as it does various socio-political processes. The authors carry on their journey with the awareness that the region is gradually and inevitably separating itself from the civilization of Russia – this is the main thought of their article.