MAKHACHKALA - On Sunday, according to reports in teh Russian media, police patrols were reinforced at all Christian cemeteries in Dagestan.
This occured in connection with a Christian holiday.
Dagestan's Interior Ministry told Russian media that the ministry had appointed responsible people to take xharge of security in each of the designated areas.
There has never been a case of a Christian cemetary being desecrated in Dagestan. However, a member of the Interior Ministry said, "The events of May 9 in Kaspiisk showed that degenerates hold nothing sacred, and they have none of the spiritual values entertained by every normal person in his soul."