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DAGESTAN SHOOTINGS SPOTLIGHT RISING ISLAMIST THREAT FOR PUTIN

By Andrew Osborn
June 25, 202411:34 AM GMT+2Updated 2 months ago
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Item 1 of 5 Russian President Vladimir Putin lights a candle in memory of the
victims of the Crocus City Hall attack, on the day of national mourning in a
church at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 24,
2024. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
[1/5]Russian President Vladimir Putin lights a candle in memory of the victims
of the Crocus City Hall attack, on the day of national mourning in a church at
the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 24, 2024.
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 * At least 20 killed in coordinated shootings in Dagestan
 * Islamists exploiting Russia's Ukraine focus - experts
 * Kremlin plays down fears of return to 1990s attacks

LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin says Russia's war in
Ukraine is part of an existential struggle with the West that demands total
focus - but deadly shootings in Dagestan show that militant Islam is a rising
threat that may force him to redirect resources.
The latest violence, in which at least 20 people were killed on Sunday evening
in a series of apparently coordinated shootings in Russia's far south, raises
awkward questions for its intelligence and security services.
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They appear to have been caught off guard at a time when much of their attention
is focused on Ukraine and the threat of Ukrainian-linked attacks inside Russia.
"Radical Islamism is again raising its head in Russia," said Sergei Markov, a
former Kremlin adviser, who had just returned from a trip to the North Caucasus
region.
"It is clear that there is a problem with Islamist terrorism and it is very
serious. We need action from the authorities."
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The reported involvement of two relatives of a local official who had held a
counter-terrorism meeting as recently as April, and another attacker's past
affiliation with a pro-Kremlin party, have raised fears of infiltration of the
local elite.
The attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala, in which a Russian Orthodox priest and
at least 15 policemen were killed and a synagogue was burned down, is a blow to
Putin's long-standing pledge to the Russian people that he will ensure domestic
stability.

Residents of Makhachkala, the regional capital, on Tuesday reported much tighter
security measures with more police patrols and vehicle checkpoints as the city
observed a second official day of mourning.
The assaults may also prompt a review in Moscow of the way that impoverished
majority-Muslim Dagestan is run, according to some experts.
The same region, some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) south of Moscow, was rocked in
October when rioters shouting "Allahu Akbar" or "God is Greatest" stormed an
airport to "catch" Jewish passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv.

Dagestan is important to the military, and a naval base for Russia's "Caspian
Flotilla" is being built there.
To its west lies Chechnya, also a majority-Muslim region, where Moscow has
fought two wars with separatists since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Riccardo Valle, Director of Research at The Khorasan Diary, a non-partisan
centre that reports on militancy in the region, told Reuters that Islamic State
and other jihadist groups had been discussing the opportunity that Russia's war
in Ukraine presented for them.

He said the Ukraine war had hindered essential cooperation between Moscow and
the West on tackling Islamic State, as well as diverted Russian resources, and
that the Dagestan attack showed "a huge security gap in Russian
intelligence-gathering".
Meanwhile, he said, jihadists had been "writing in articles about how Ukraine is
the so-called 'black hole' for the West and Russia. Meaning that, while the West
and Russia are focusing their attention in Ukraine, jihadists can take advantage
of this situation and strike".


DAGESTAN SHOOTINGS FOLLOW CONCERT HALL ATTACK

In an attack in March claimed by Islamic State, gunmen raided the Crocus City
concert hall near Moscow, killing nearly 150 people in an incident that Moscow
suggested Ukraine had also had a hand in directing - an allegation Kyiv denied.
And just over a week ago, a bloody Islamic State-linked prison uprising took
place in Rostov, southern Russia, in which special forces shot dead six inmates
who had taken hostages.
Western military experts said Sunday's attacks looked well planned and
coordinated.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the Russian branch of
Islamic State-Khorasan's Al-Azaim Media posted a statement praising what it
called "brothers from the Caucasus" for the attack.
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in a research note that
Wilayat Kavkaz, the Northern Caucasus branch of Islamic State, had "likely
conducted" the shootings.
The Kremlin said Putin had been following events closely and giving orders, and
that an investigation was under way.
When asked by a reporter, Putin's spokesman played down fears of any return to
the late 1990s and early 2000s, a period when Islamist militants launched
regular attacks on civilian targets across Russia.
"Russia is different now, society is absolutely consolidated. And such criminal
terrorist manifestations as we saw in Dagestan yesterday are not supported by
society, either in Russia itself or in Dagestan," Dmitry Peskov said.
Sergei Melikov, head of the Dagestan region, called the attacks an attempt to
destabilise society.
The United States gave Russia advanced warning of the Moscow concert hall attack
in March, but the Kremlin has insisted that it has not taken its eye off the
ball, and that no country is immune to terrorism, while accepting that the
Ukraine war has damaged international counter-terrorism cooperation.
Valle, of the Khorasan Diary, said that "some days ago, Turkish government
sources revealed that Turkey helped Russia to disrupt a cell which intended to
carry out another attack in Moscow ...
"So it means that there is an ongoing issue within the security environment in
Russia which has been deepened by the war in Ukraine."

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Reporting by Andrew Osborn; Additional reporting by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by
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and wars in Georgia and Ukraine. Andrew was part of a Wall Street Journal
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