At least 20 people were killed on Sunday in a seemingly coordinated assault in the Dagestan region of southern Russia. The Russian authorities have designated the attack as an act of terror, but it was not immediately clear who was responsible. The gunmen targeted a police station as well as synagogues and Orthodox churches.
The attack was reminiscent of the intense violence that gripped the Northern Caucasus in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That bloodshed was caused by a combination of Islamic fundamentalism and organized crime, threatening the legacy of suppressing violence that Vladimir Putin had previously claimed.
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