Dagestan

It had already halted flights to Grozny and Makhachkala in neighbouring Dagestan, but has now added the cities of Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara and Mineralnye Vody.

In a windswept corner we came across a woman willing to talk - Saida Temirbulatova, 47, a former tax inspector from Dagestan.

Conor McGregor, the brash, arrogant former champion from Ireland, baited his nemesis, Khabib Nurmagomedov—a stoic generational talent from Dagestan—by personally insulting him and his family with Islamophobic remarks.

Her first husband died after a couple of months, then she married a man from Dagestan and had his child.

Another blow to the Kremlin’s carefully cultivated notion of total control was the riot at an airport in the Russian province of Dagestan, targeting a flight from Israel.