Dagestani official sacked after sons implicated in Sunday’s deadly attacks

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1. Excerpts:

   “We understand perfectly who is behind it,” Peskov said, telling reporters to ask Europe and the United States why they were “killing Russian children.”

   A local official in Russia’s Dagestan region was sacked on Monday after two of his sons were reported to be among the gunmen who attacked religious sites there on Sunday.

   Sunday’s attacks targeted two synagogues and two Orthodox churches as well as a police checkpoint in the regional capital Makhachkala and the city of Derbent, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Caspian Sea.

   Sunday’s assault was the second mass shooting in Russia this year, after gunmen in March opened fire on a large crowd in the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow. That massacre, which killed 145 people, was claimed by Islamic State.

   Russian officials and media, however, used the Crocus attack to serve their own ends, claiming to have found evidence of a “Ukrainian trace.” Ever since Moscow launched its full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian officials and state media have referred to Ukrainians as “terrorists.”

   Еarly signs suggest a similar smokescreen might be fabricated this time as well.

   Late on Sunday, State Duma Deputy Abdulkhakim Gadzhiyev claimed that Ukraine and unspecified NATO countries “were no doubt behind the attacks” in an effort to “destabilize our country from within” due to what he described as Russia’s success on the battlefield.

2. I never cease to be amazed by the utter bullshit the Kremlin put’s out just as I never cease to be amazed by the gullible idiots who believe it

3. In the West, we have to wait for the terrorists to put out a press release claiming responsibility for an attack. In Russia, terrorists have to rush the press release before the Kremlin claims someone is responsible.

4. In unrelated news, Russian deaths in Ukraine are 50 times this number. Every single day.

5. Daesh has definitely made significant inroads in Dagestan. They are going to make the Circassian Emirate insurgency look like Sesame Street.

6. Dagestan is wild. Finally decided to look at the wiki just for basic information.

   >Dagestan covers an area of 50,300 square kilometres (19,400 square miles), with a population of over 3.1 million,[12] consisting of over 30 ethnic groups and 81 nationalities.[13] With 14 official languages, and 12 ethnic groups each constituting more than 1% of its total population, the republic is one of Russia’s most linguistically and ethnically diverse, and one of the most heterogeneous administrative divisions in the world.[14]

   >Dagestan has the second highest life expectancy in Russia. Higher duration of life is observed only in Ingushetia

   >According to a 2012 survey which interviewed 56,900 people,[59] 83% of the population of Dagestan adheres to Islam, 2.4% to the Russian Orthodox Church, 2% to Caucasian folk religion and other native faiths, 1% are non-denominational Christians. In addition, 9% of the population identify as “spiritual but not religious”, 2% as atheist, and 0.6% as other and no answer.[59]