A Dagestani resident publicly apologized for a conflict with teenagers.

A 34-year-old Leninkent resident publicly apologized after admonishing several teenagers for not following his orders as an older man.

A video of the 34-year-old Leninkent resident's apology was released on the "Criminal Chronicle" Telegram channel on June 27.

The video shows him giving testimony to law enforcement. The man explained that he had a conflict with a teenager over selling corn on the beach. According to the Leninkent resident, his mother was selling corn on the beach, and several teenagers also began selling it there. The man asked them to sell it on another beach. However, the teenagers continued to sell corn on this very beach.

"It's like in Dagestan: when a person makes a remark to a younger person, it's taken normally. I take it normally myself. I do what my elders tell me," a Leninkent resident explained to security forces.

He noted that the fact that the teenagers failed to follow his instructions, as someone older than them, evoked emotions in him. And in his emotions, he reprimanded them.

"I also met with his father, and I apologized to his father," the Leninkent resident said.

This post on the Instagram* public page tut.dagestan, which has about 1.6 million followers, had garnered 1,089 reactions and 693 comments as of 12:30 PM Moscow time on June 28. Some of the authors considered it inappropriate that security forces posted a public apology from a Leninkent resident online. Caucasian Knot also wrote that the practice of public apologies, at the instigation of Ramzan Kadyrov, has spread beyond Chechnya to other regions of Russia. You can read more about this practice in the "Caucasian Knot" help document "The Fashion for Apologies: From Chechnya to the Outskirts".

"Caucasian Knot" also leads "Chronicle of public apologies in the Caucasus", and posts news about the latest apologies on the thematic page "Whom the Caucasus makes apologize".