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There was no mass cancellation of tours to Dagestan amid the unrest in Makhachkala, but some tourists refused to travel to the republic, representatives of travel agencies report. They have pointed out that because of the unrest, Dagestan risks losing its attractiveness for guests from other regions.

The “Kamerton” detachment, created as part of the Akhmat special forces by former fighters of the Wagner PMC, is undergoing combat training, as follows from public videos.

The Karabudakhkent District Court received 37 protocols against participants of the riots at the Makhachkala airport under the article on violating the procedure for holding protests; in 14 cases decisions on punishment have already been made.

The National Centre of the Kyrgyz Republic for the Prevention of Torture received a complaint about torture in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya.

Investigators considered legal the actions of border guard service officers at an airport in the city of Mineralnye Vody, who forced human rights defender Olga Begretova to submit fingerprints and biological material.

Those who gathered for the protest rally at the Makhachkala airport showed “great stupidity,” but the riots themselves were the result of insufficient educational work by the authorities with young people, Dagestani activists said.

The court in Grozny interrogated two witnesses in the case against Nikita Zhuravel, who faces imprisonment for burning the Koran. During the trial, he asked Muslims for forgiveness for his actions. The trial was then postponed for the third time due to the absence of the Grozny imams, recognized as victims in the case.

Neither the authorities nor the spiritual leaders of the North Caucasus condemned the riots at the Makhachkala airport and other anti-Semitic protests in the region, said Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar. He expressed fears for the fate of his co-religionists in the south of the country.

The riots in Dagestan were “organized by forces from outside,” and their participants, who became victims of provocation, should be shown mercy, the Chief Mufti of Tatarstan Kamil Samigullin said today.

Batyrkhanov, who took part in the riots at Makhachkala airport, has been fired, the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov announced. In the video, which outraged the head of the republic, the official stated that he was going to the airport so that passengers from Israel would “forget the way” to Dagestan.

Former doctor from Rostov-on-Don Irina Tatti, along with her family, was captured by Hamas militants at the beginning of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the head of the city’s Jewish community said.

Members of the Jewish communities of Kizlyar and Khasavyurt reported a tense atmosphere in Dagestan, but, according to them, there were no targeted threats to community representatives. The work of at least two Jewish communities in the republic has been suspended, they said.

Several local residents were detained in Ingushetia for spreading calls for unrest at Magas airport, the FSB reported.

Participants of the anti-Israeli rally in Cherkessk, after arrests and preventive conversations, abandoned plans to hold a similar rally, one of the detainees said.

The Israeli embassy in Russia is ready to help Dagestani Jews move to Israel, a representative of the diplomatic mission said.

The preliminary amount of damage to the Makhachkala airport amounted to 285 million rubles, said State Duma deputy Khizri Abakarov, proposing to recover the costs from the riot participants themselves, as well as to add them to the airport’s blacklist.

The order of the head of Chechnya cannot serve as a basis for the use of weapons against participants in mass riots; the use of weapons is regulated by the law “On the Police,” the lawyers pointed out. Human rights activists believe that actions similar to the riots in Makhachkala in Chechnya are possible only in a controlled format with the consent of Moscow.

Recently, activists from Russia have often been detained in Kyrgyzstan under various pretexts, Dmitry Kabak, a legal expert, has noted in his comment on the threat of extradition of Mansur Movlaev, a Chechen resident, from there.

All those detained at the action against refugees from Israel in Cherkessk have been released. The court has fined the participants in the anti-Semitic action; and the police issued warnings.

Security forces have strengthened security measures at Magas airport amid information spreading on social networks about the arrival of a flight from Israel, reports the administration of Sunzha.