Concern is growing for prominent moderate Muslims in Russia’s Dagestan region after an imam was shot dead days after the killing of an academic.
Unidentified gunmen shot Ashurlav Kurbanov near his mosque in the northern village of Mikheyevka, investigators said.
Maksud Sadikov, rector of an Islamic college in the regional capital Makhachkala, was killed last week.
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