The Russian region of Dagestan has been rocked by a series of shooting incidents that have left at least six policemen and two assailants dead, the region’s interior ministry said, as well as a Russian orthodox priest who was beheaded according to one report, and a synagogue and two churches. “According to the information I received, Father Nikolai was killed in a church in Derbent, his throat was cut. He was 66 years old and very ill. Security guard Mikhail in the Makhachkala-1 church, armed only with a gas pistol, was shot. The priests locked themselves in the church, waiting for help,” the …