ArmInfo.Doctor of Political Science, Candidate of Technical Sciences, expert on military and national security issues Hrachya Arzumanyan is surprised by the resonance caused by the murder of an Orthodox priest in Derbent and the subsequent developments. According to the Armenian expert, these developments were expected, which he has repeatedly spoken about, especially after the terrorist attack in Crocus City near Moscow.
"Yes, the spearhead of the Islamic world in form of Turkiye /Ottoman Empire will enter the soft underbelly of the RF/Russian Empire through the eastern province of Azerbaijan and Dagestan. Since Turkiye/Azerbaijan has secure control over a number of Kremlin, Moscow and St. Petersburg towers.
What's unexpected about that? And yes, the Russian Empire will remain, and even the Russian people will remain. It's just that its ethnic composition and religion will change. The Slavs will become a shrinking minority within the Eurasian Slavic-Turkic Union, which has been built by the special services and the General Staff of Russia over the past 40 years," Arzumanyan assures.
The political scientist predicts that Russia will abandon Christianity in the future against the backdrop of the processes taking place today, the "conversion" of Christian churches into mosques. "Russian Orthodox priests will undergo advanced training courses at the Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul and return with the necessary instructions. A new page in the history of the Russian people is beginning, which will be written by the Horde. But where will they receive a label for rule in the Great Porte or from the Emperor of China himself? There are options here," Arzumanyan assured.
On June 23 in the afternoon, reports began to arrive of an attack by unknown persons on the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God on Lenin Street and the Kele-Numaz Synagogue on Tagi-Zade Street in Derbent.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, the attackers fired at the church and synagogue with machine guns. As a result of these actions, a strong fire started in the synagogue, which was only extinguished late at night. It was later learned that the attackers, using methods typical of ISIS militants, killed the rector of the church, 66-year-old Father Nikolai Kotelnikov, who dedicated 40 years of his life to serving God. "Father Nikolai was killed in a church in Derbent, his throat was cut," wrote Shamil Khadulaev, deputy chairman of the public monitoring commission of Dagestan, in a telegram on Sunday, adding that the attackers also shot a church guard in Makhachkala, who was armed only with a gas pistol. The Investigative Committee of Russia reported in the morning that 15 security officers and four civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed as a result of the attack. It was also learned that six militants had been eliminated.
According to Russian media, three of the killed were identified as the sons and nephew of the head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Magomed Omarov. The latter resigned in the evening and was detained by law enforcement. Another person killed was a former MMA fighter. The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on charges of terrorist attack, illegal storage and theft of firearms. Three days of mourning have been declared in Dagestan.