Moscow is coming under increasing pressure to protect the country's Jewish community after the latest episode of antisemitsm highlighted interethnic tensions.
Moscow is coming under increasing pressure to protect the country's Jewish community after an angry mob stormed an airport in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Sunday.Sixty people were detained following the incident.People shouting antisemitic slogans at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, on Oct. 30, 2023.
Dagestan is in Russia's North Caucasus region and is a republic within the Russian Federation. It has a mainly Muslim population of around 3.1 million people. Other republics such as Chechnya, Tatarstan and Ingushetia also have large Muslim-majority populations. The Jewish community, meanwhile, has declined in terms of numbers in recent years and stands at around 82,000, the most recent census in 2021 showed, having declined from around 156,000 in 2010.
They added that the Kremlin is likely to "struggle to reassure constituencies that the situation is under control and convince Jewish audiences that Jewish minorities are safe in Russia despite its efforts to present Russia as a religiously tolerant country." Meanwhile, Rabbi Alexander Boroda, the president of Russia's Federation of Jewish Communities, called for a harsh response from Russia, saying in a statement that the riot had "undermined the basic foundations of our multi-cultural and multi-national state," Reuters reported Monday.
In the last 30 years, for example, Russia has gone from fighting two wars against an independence movement in Muslim-majority Chechnya to co-opting the republic firmly into its orbit in recent years, with Chechen fighters deployed to fight in Ukraine and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov subservient to Putin.
"Dagestan has its own Jewish community, the Mountain Jews, who have lived in the region for thousands of years and are just as indigenous to it as any other Dagestani ethnicity," Max Hess, fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of "Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict Between Russia and the West," told CNBC Monday.
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