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> but it's often not just the sheep that farmers are concerned about.

Often you say? The sources you pulled up, cite 150 year old horror stories (i.e. the height of wolf panic that led to their extinction in most of Europe) from sparsely populated areas. The event in Russia is tragic, but as one of your sources points out, the vast majority of attacks are from rabid animals. Rabies is largely extinct in Europe, maybe not so much in Dagestan?

The point is that outside of sparsely populated mountain regions, hardly anyone has to be fearful of the big bad wolf. <3000 deadly encounters in the past 300 years, most of them (>80%) due to rabies. Statistically the opposite of often.