From the BZ editorial team
In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a crowd of people forced their way into the airport on Sunday evening because a plane from Tel Aviv had landed there, allegedly carrying refugees from Israel.
The mob entered the airport with the aim of attacking the passengers.
► Numerous people also ran onto the airfield and tried to storm the plane.
The airfield was temporarily closed and incoming aircraft were diverted to other airports, the state aviation regulator Rosawiazija told the Tass agency.
As several media outlets unanimously reported, parts of the mob also searched cars for Israelis and Jews and asked the occupants to show their passports.
There is currently an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Russia’s Muslim-dominated North Caucasus.
► On Saturday, a crowd surrounded a hotel in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan because of a rumor that refugees from Israel were being housed there. The Kremlin-affiliated state news agency Ria confirmed this incident. According to local reports, several dozen men broke into the hotel to check the passports of hotel guests. The police are said to have cordoned off the hotel.
► In the town of Nalchik, tires were set on fire next to a Jewish cultural center under construction on Sunday, Ria reported. According to the security authorities of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, the building was daubed with extremist slogans. According to photos, it said “Death to the Jews.” In the republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, demonstrators called for the local Jewish population to be deported.