Due to the riots at Dagestan’s airport, Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting today with representatives of the security forces, the Prime Minister and members of parliament.
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.
Before officers could control the situation, the crowd chased the bus with passengers and threw stones at it. Protesters also checked cars leaving the airport for Jews.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that more than 150 participants in the riots had been identified (independent media reported that 1,500 people took part in the incidents) and that 60 suspects had been arrested. Twenty people were injured, five of them are in hospital.
The airport resumed operations on Monday afternoon.
Putin responds to riots at Dagestan airport
“President Putin plans to convene a large representative meeting tonight around 7 p.m. to discuss attempts by the West to use events in the Middle East to divide Russian society,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin.
According to him, the president will personally appear at the meeting, give a speech and then participate in the meeting, which will take place behind closed doors.
When Peskov was previously asked about the events at Makhachkala airport, he suggested it was a “provocation from outside.” He argued that against the backdrop of television material showing that “the horrors of what is happening in the Gaza Strip – the deaths of civilians, children, the elderly and doctors – it is very easy for unfriendly people (Russia – ed.) to turn the situation around to provoke and incite.”
Zakharova found those responsible for the attack on the plane from Israel. This is Ukraine
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova spoke in a similar tone, arguing that the riots in Dagestan “are the result of a planned and executed external provocation aimed at undermining harmonious development and ethno-religious unity of the people of the Russian Federation.”
According to her, in carrying out the riots, “a direct and key role was entrusted to the criminal regime in Kiev, which in turn acted through the notorious Russians living there.”
Zakharova is convinced that “a quick and unequivocal response from Russia’s leadership and coordinated, clear and proportionate actions by the country’s law enforcement agencies are a clear answer for all those who hope to sow confusion and discord in Russia.”
Source: Do Rzeczy
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