This is how empires collapse, Gallyamov said, can events in Dagestan lead to revolution?

Will anti-Jewish protests in Dagestan undermine the situation in Russia / Collage 24 Channel

The anti-Jewish pogroms at Makhachkala airport in Dagestan, which took place on October 29, were suppressed by the Russian authorities. However, such events could become the impetus for more serious unrest in Russian society.

Russian political scientist Abbas Gallyamov told Channel 24 about this, noting that in a multinational state where there are interethnic contradictions, revolutions often arise there and a significant part of it takes place within the framework of interethnic conflicts.

There is a grudge against Russians

What happened in Dagestan was not liked by many in Russia, where anti-emigrant sentiments are already strengthening. And they very quickly transform against nationality.

Men looking for Jews in airplane turbines are repugnant to the average Russian. They don't want to be associated with the crowd that stormed the airport and caused chaos. Both Moscow and the Russian part want to be further from this savagery.

“Caucasians also see this, that Russians despise them and do not rent out apartments in Moscow when they come there. They have a grudge, and now a crack has opened. Therefore, any weakening of the totalitarian regime always leads to an aggravation of all contradictions,” he noted. political scientist.

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Forms fault lines

When the regime loses power, the bonds begin to rust and fall apart, then the fault lines that exist in society begin to widen: between rich and poor, center and periphery, and in particular between different ethnic groups.

The accusations that Vladimir Putin and Russian propaganda accuse the West of being immoral, depraved, are falling apart. So the Dagestanis bring all these accusations against the Russians. They get used to the discourse that it is normal to blame someone.

“And when the Kremlin puts this topic on the agenda, it legitimizes these claims from the Caucasians. The Russian authorities themselves form these fault lines. When the regime begins to collapse and it becomes clear that there is no one to fear, then everything will go into disarray. This is how empires collapse and begin “. civil wars,” Abbas Gallyamov is sure.

What is known about anti-Semitic protests in Dagestan

• At the Makhachkala airport on October 29, an angry crowd of Dagestanis gathered with Palestinian flags to meet a plane from Israel on which Jewish refugees were supposed to fly to Dagestan. They checked people, stopped cars and even a bus with children to determine Israeli citizenship. They also broke into the airport building, where they were looking for Jews.
• When police arrived at the airport, protesters resisted by throwing stones. In the end, security forces cleared the airport of protesters. More than 60 people were detained as the crowd was dispersed.
• Subsequently, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, stated that he was allegedly organizing a rally at the Makhachkala airport. was carried out from Ukraine. This “version” was also confirmed by Putin, commenting on the events in Dagestan. According to him, the protesters were allegedly outraged “through social networks from the territory of Ukraine by the hands of agents of Western intelligence services.”
• At the same time, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller denied Russia's accusations of Ukraine's alleged involvement in organizing anti-Jewish pogroms in Dagestan and called them absurd. He also called on Russia to do everything to ensure the safety of Jews in the country.