Attacks by gunmen in two cities appeared to catch local security officials by surprise
that left at least 19 people dead has highlighted Russia’s growing difficulties in managing a tide of Islamist terror at home as its security forces are engaged in the war in Ukraine.
The mostly Muslim region in the North Caucasus in southern Russia is one of the country’s most restive, and the growing social unrest and violence there could indicate that the Kremlin is struggling to maintain order at home amid Vladimir Putin’s singular focus on his generational conflict with the west.
To prevent that from happening, Russian officials quickly moved to try to portray the attack as a “provocation” by outside forces, including the US and the Nato military alliance, despite ample evidence of homegrown terrorism in Russia stemming back to the devastating wars of the 1990s in the North Caucasus.
Two of the attackers were reported to be sons of the head of Dagestan’s Sergokalinsky district, Magomed Omarov, who was detained for questioning. His records have been removed from the site of United Russia, the country’s ruling party, of which he was a member. Russian media reports on Monday said he had told investigators that he knew several members of his family had been radicalised years earlier, and the identities of a number of the assailants were known to police in advance.
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