The events at Makhachkala airport were largely the result of outside interference, said Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman. Hundreds of people stormed the tarmac in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim republic of Dagestan in the southern Russian Federation, on Sunday evening when it was announced that a plane from Israel would land there. […]
Tag: Dagestan
Riots at Dagestan airport. Israel appeals to Russia
A crowd protesting the arrival of the plane from Tel Aviv stormed the airport runway in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala. Makhachkala Airport is closed. Aircraft are sent to alternate airports or returned to their departure airports. The plane from Tel Aviv landed in the capital of Dagestan in southern Russia at 7:17 PM local time. Several […]