A new explosion took place last night near the settlement of Noviy Hushet as a police convoy was moving past. As a result of it one law enforcement officer was killed and another two were injured.
This afternoon the Daesh terrorist group took responsibility for the attack.
The attack recalled conversations about the threat of activation of such criminal activities as extremists against Russia in response to the operation in Syria.
The President of the Institute of National Strategy, Mikhail Remizov, said in an interview with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza that "nuanced analysis can actually show some deviations, but I think that the situation hasn't changed fundamentally." "In recent years it has even improved in terms of statistics of terrorist acts and subversive underground activity,'' he noted.
"Now the most important task is to prevent the return of militants from Syria to Russia, because the directly reached agreements there don't mean a parry of the threat from the potential returnees and generally from underground in the North Caucasus,'' the expert believes.
The President of the counterterrorism division of the Alpha Veterans' Association, Sergey Goncharov, expressed confidence that "the successes that Assad's government army in Syria is having now with the help of our Air Forces is certainly a real achievement, and everyone understands it."
"That's one side of the coin. The other is that a lot of militants who fight in Syria, including those who are from our North Caucasus, are beginning to escape from the areas of battles. They are quite a large number, about 2500 people. But those who have no desire to penetrate somewhere and live in neighboring countries with Syria return to the Caucasus. It will be a headache for our special services and for the leaders of the North Caucasus republics. I expect that it will bring quite serious problems. What we can see in Dagestan now is the echoes of the situation in Syria,'' he said.
The director of the Institute of Political Studies, Sergei Markov, said that "now the danger of penetration of terrorism to our Caucasus hasn't decreased."
"If you hit a puddle of mud, then it starts to splash in all directions. We stroke and it started spilling – Daesh and Dzhabhat en-Nusra militants who escape from that region may try to organize some terrorist acts. Therefore, during the next few years we should not relax, because the threat of terrorism hasn't decreased, but even increased a little bit,'' he explained.
