All right, Alexander, let's talk about the terrorist attack in Dagestan, targeting two cities, including the region's capital.

Orthodox Church was targeted, synagogue was targeted, priest was killed, security officials, police were also killed in another

terrorist attack in Russia. We're about three, four months removed or maybe more from

Krokus, about three months removed from Crocus?

Yes.

And here we are again with another terrorist attack this time in Dagestan.

What's your take on this?

Well, this has been a sequence of attacks of this kind.

First of all, as you correctly said, there was Crocus City Hall.

The Crocus City Hall attack. I think it was in March, in Moscow. We remember and discussed all of that.

Then a couple of days ago, there was some kind of hostage siege in Rostov. This apparently

happened in a prison. We haven't been given a huge amount of information

about the people who carried out this hostage siege, only that they were prisoners, that they

were people who were being held in a prison in Rostov, and that the security forces were able

to free the hostages,

and that all of the people who had seized the hostages were killed,

and that their bodies would not be returned to their families. And now we've had these attacks in Dagestan, which is one of the Muslim republics in the northern Caucasus.

It's close to Chechnya.

And it's in two places, in two towns there.

Mahchakala, which is the capital, and Derbent, which is on the Caspian Sea.

And the attacks in Dagestan specifically focused upon religious centres, places of worship,

by non-Muslim community there.

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