Is Putin's Ukraine obsession distracting from a rising threat at home? NBC News Technology Yuliya Talmazan and Tom Winter 26 June 2024 at 04:35 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. ยฉ ReutersThe street of Makhachkala in southern Russia and plumes of smoke rising from a building in Derbent, Russia, on Monday. ยฉ AFP - Getty ImagesOfficials inside a burned-out synagogue in Derbent, Dagestan, on Tuesday. ยฉ Alexander KazakovPutin during a wreath laying ceremony in the Alexandrovsky Garden in Moscow earlier this month.