From the Republics |
Attacks in Dagestan Will Marginalize and Endanger Russia’s Muslims. Further.By Leyla Latypova“Russia is different now,”
shrugged Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov when journalists asked him whether Sunday’s deadly
events in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan signal that the country is sliding back into the 2000s, a time
marked in Russians’ collective memory by terrorist attacks including the 2002 Nord-Ost hostage crisis and the 2004 Beslan school siege.
“Society is strongly consolidated and criminal terrorist acts like the one we saw in Dagestan yesterday are not supported by society in Russia or Dagestan,” Peskov added.
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