The Caucasian issue has always been one of the main trump cards in the propaganda arsenal of Russia’s enemies - for two centuries the West has been accusing our country of “colonialism”, “imperial expansion” and “conquest of the Caucasus”. Well-known historian, best-selling author of “The Primordial Gods of Rus'” , “Svyatoslav the Great” and “Evpatiy Kolovrat”, leaves no stone unturned from these accusations, irrefutably proving that there is every reason to consider our Slavic ancestors as one of the indigenous peoples of the North Caucasus, and the Caucasus itself has been Russian land since ancient times.