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| 'Cynicism and Betrayal.' The pogrom in Makhachkala was prepared according to the Belarusian scheme | |
| 2023-10-31 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Moshkin [REGNUM] “Today we have received absolutely reliable and open information that the channel “Morning Dagestan” , which incited the residents of Makhachkala to riots at the republican airport, “ is administered and regulated from the territory of Ukraine by traitors, Banderaites,” said the head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov on October 30. The night before, October 29, several hundred people broke onto the runway of Uytash Airport after the arrival of a flight from Tel Aviv. It is believed that the rioters were looking for arriving Israeli citizens. A large group of people came with anti-Israel signs and Palestinian flags and chanted slogans in support of Palestine. At one point, part of the crowd shouted “Allahu Akbar!” broke the entrance doors and broke into the airport terminal building. The management and dispatch services of the Makhachkala airport responded - several aircraft were redirected to alternate airfields. But passengers of several landing airliners had to be delayed for several hours getting off the planes - the situation on the tarmac developed unpredictably. When they broke through, the rioters got into a scuffle with the police. “Nine police officers were injured and received various injuries, two of them are in the hospital,” the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan clarified on October 30. In total, at least a dozen people were reportedly taken to hospitals, two are in extremely serious condition, the republican Ministry of Health reported . Help for the wounded is personally supervised by the head of the department, Tatyana Belyaeva . The total number of victims by the morning of October 30 was estimated at 20 people. Makhachkala airport is closed after the riots. Flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Dagestan capital will land in Grozny. What happened on October 29 in Makhachkala was clearly aimed at inciting ethnic hatred, said Federal Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova. She called on Dagestanis not to succumb to provocations and strictly follow the law and the calls of the authorities of the republic. According to police, at least six dozen rioters were detained. In total, more than 150 active participants in the riots have been identified , the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North Caucasus Federal District clarifies. The head of the republic, Melikov, who called the incident a knife in the back of the soldiers in the Northern Military District zone, as well as cynicism and betrayal, advised those arrested to volunteer for the front.
According to Melikov, the police and soldiers of the Russian Guard, for their part, did not use physical force until the very end, hoping to reason with the crowd. The attackers were not controlled by anyone, “except for those operators who controlled remotely” using social networks, the head of Dagestan again emphasized. The “Morning of Dagestan” channel he mentioned and a network of other Telegram resources that provoked unrest on ethnic and religious grounds were launched by fugitive ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev , who received Ukrainian citizenship from Petro Poroshenko (recognized as a foreign agent, included in the list of terrorists and extremists). Ponomarev, we recall, has already acted as a speaker for several projects (National Republican Army, allegedly responsible for the murder of journalist Daria Dugina , the Armed Forces of Ukraine legion “Freedom of Russia” banned in the Russian Federation, etc.) which are more like fake or virtual structures. A more reasonable opinion is that the same structure is behind the murder of Dugina, military commander Vladlen Tatarsky , as well as the sabotage raid of the so-called “Volunteer Corps” in the Bryansk region - the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Military correspondent Alexander Kots compared the actions of the “grid” with the work of the former Belarusian (now Polish) channel Nexta, which provoked and tried to coordinate the actions of Belarusian oppositionists during the unrest of 2020–2021. Nexta, we recall, sought to “direct the protest” in real time - informing about the places and times of gathering of activists, about the routes of movement of law enforcement officers and presenting messages about “harsh detentions” in the right way. Channels that are trying to work with Dagestani public opinion are guided by the same scheme - and in this case, they speculate on pseudo-religious feelings and appeal to the Salafi (Wahhabi) subculture, Kots emphasizes. In his opinion, the action in Makhachkala, formally directed against Israel and in support of Palestine, was only a test run and a test to see whether it was possible to shake up the situation in the Islamic regions of Russia. Now, according to the Dagestan leadership, the situation in the capital of the republic and in the region as a whole is under control. The government and the operational headquarters under the leadership of Melikov are working around the clock. “ We cannot spread panic. From time immemorial, Dagestanis are balanced and fair people. We will not allow the situation in the republic to destabilize,” said the head of the government of the republic, Abdulmuslim Abdulmuslimov. | |
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