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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.

Ten protocols under the article on participation in an unauthorized rally, which led to damage of public property, were received by the Khasavyurt court two days after the protests near the hotel.

In the event of protests in Chechnya, security forces must fire several warning shots in the air, and if the participants of the riot do not respond to the demand, then open fire on them, said the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Mass unrest in Makhachkala was provoked from outside, said Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Vladimir Putin has scheduled a closed meeting in the Kremlin related to the unrest, he said.

Behind the riots at the Makhachkala airport are people who oppose socio-economic transformations in Dagestan, since they deprive them of illegal income, and the riots themselves were supervised from abroad, including through “pro-Ukrainian Telegram channels,” said the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov.

A weekly picket in support of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev did not take place, as the protest posters were stored at Idris Yusupov’s house, searched by the police in connection with the riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

The police took under protection the synagogues in Makhachkala, Buynaksk, Derbent, and Khasavyurt after riots at an airport in Makhachkala.

The events at the Makhachkala Airport and the anti-Semitic actions held in Khasavyurt, Cherkessk and Nalchik are atypical for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and Russia as a whole; they threaten the interreligious and interethnic harmony in the country, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) has stated.

The Israeli National Security Council (NSC) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have raised the level of danger for country's citizens in Northern Caucasus and a number of neighbouring regions up to the maximum, recommending their fellow countrymen not to travel to these regions or leave them as soon as possible.

Northern Caucasus chooses Palestine, fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are unravelling the knots, new awards for Adam Kadyrov, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 23-29, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

In the village of Pavlovskaya, the court has fined Dmitry Tertitsa, a local resident, by 40,000 roubles, finding that the slogan he wrote on the stele in support of Ukraine discredited Russian militaries.

Hundreds of Dagestani residents gathered at the "Uitash" Airport for the arrival of the flight from Tel Aviv, following the calls released in anonymous Telegram channels. The crowd declared that they would not allow Jews to enter the republic. Young people even inspect law enforcers' cars trying to find those arriving from Israel.

Activists and descendants of those repressed have held an action in Vladikavkaz dated to the Remembrance Day of Victims of Political Repressions.

Volgograd university students have taken part in the all-Russian action "Names' Return" by gathering at the monument to the victims of Stalin's repressions and reading out the names of those repressed.

The Coordination Centre for Muslims of Northern Caucasus (CCMNC), while commenting on the action in Cherkessk with calls not to allow refugees from Israel into the republic, has treated anti-Semitic actions as unacceptable and called not to regard the opinion of their participants as the opinion of the whole nation.

Hundreds of people gathered outside a hotel in Khasavyurt after reports in social networks that refugees from Israel had been accommodated at the hotel. Law enforcers allowed the protesters to get convinced that only tourists from Russia were among the hotel guests, after which the protesters dispersed.

In Makhachkala, thousands have taken part in collective prayer for the Muslims of Palestine, the Muftiate of Dagestan has reported. Mass prayers for Palestinians were also held in mosques in Karachay-Cherkessia and Chechnya.