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[BURNS-CABLE] A Caucasus Wedding
Functional Programmers Anonymous
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Show Notes
Weddings are elaborate in Dagestan, the largest autonomy in the North Caucasus. On August 22 we attended a wedding in Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital: Duma member and Dagestan Oil Company chief Gadzhi Makhachev's son married a classmate. The lavish display and heavy drinking concealed the deadly serious North Caucasus politics of land, ethnicity, clan, and alliance. The guest list spanned the Caucasus power structure, guest starring Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and underlined just how personal the region's politics can be.