The attacks on synagogues and churches in Dagestan appear to have been Islamist extremism, a rising threat with Vladimir Putin's focus on war in Ukraine.
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The street of Makhachkala in southern Russia and plumes of smoke rising from a building in Derbent, Russia, on Monday.
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Officials inside a burned-out synagogue in Derbent, Dagestan, on Tuesday.
ยฉ Alexander Kazakov
Putin during a wreath laying ceremony in the Alexandrovsky Garden in Moscow earlier this month.