Foreign ministry says Kyiv played ‘direct and key role’ after mob stormed planes in search of Israeli passengers
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, said on Monday that the riot was the result of a “provocation” orchestrated from outside Russia, with
RT, a state-funded news agency that coordinates its coverage with Kremlin officials, released a report on Utro Dagestan on Monday, claiming that the channel’s anonymous administrator, who it said had been detained in Makhachkala, was linked to Ilya Ponomarev, a Kyiv-based former Russian official who opposes the Kremlin. Ponomarev said on Sunday that he had had no control over the channel for more than a year.
Several other demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and against Jewish people have also taken place in cities across the Caucasus in recent days despite strict laws that limit public protests.The anti-Jewish demonstrations come against the backdrop of Putin taking a pro-Palestinian stance in Israel’s war in Gaza, a position that aligns the Kremlin with its ally Iran in what analysts have described as a growing global divide between east and west.
“For a long time, any form of antisemitism was prohibited in the political and media spheres,” said Ilya Yablokov, a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, who has written about antisemitism in Russia In Makhachkala on Sunday night, Yablokov said, pre-existing anti-Jewish sentiments appeared to have been stoked by growing anti-Israeli sentiments aired on state media.
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