Opinion: spearhead of Islamic world in form of Turkiye will enter  soft underbelly of Russia through eastern province of Azerbaijan and  Dagestan

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.