Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that miscreants had used the widely visible images of suffering in Gaza to mobilize people in the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus region.
The Kremlin also said President Vladimir Putin would hold a meeting later Monday to discuss Western attempts to divide Russian society.
“It is very easy for the enemies to take advantage of the television footage showing the terrible events in the Gaza Strip – the deaths of people, children, and elderly people and provoke the situation,” D. Peskov told reporters on Monday.
The Kremlin did not comment further on its claim of “external interference”.
State media previously quoted the governor of Dagestan as saying that “the initiators of this action are our enemies who organized it from the territory of Ukraine.”
The incident, which comes amid ongoing war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, prompted Israel to call on Russia to protect its citizens and the United States to condemn the unrest.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement late Sunday: “Israel expects the Russian authorities to defend all Israeli citizens and all Jews and take decisive action against rioters and incitement of violence against Jews and Israelis.”
Adrienne Watson, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said on the X social network: “The United States strongly condemns the anti-Semitic protests in Dagestan, Russia. The United States unequivocally supports the entire Jewish community as anti-Semitism grows rapidly around the world.”
The governor of Dagestan promised that those responsible for the incident would be punished.
VIDEO: Chaos erupted at a Russian airport, crowds of people stormed in search of Israelis
Crowds broke into the airport in search of Israelis who had arrived: they broke down doors and barriers, 60 people were arrested
15min recalls that Russia’s Makhachkala airport in the Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday a crowd of Israelis and Jews poured inafter rumors spread that a plane was arriving from Israel.
VIDEO: An angry mob tried to break into an Israeli plane at a Russian airport
60 people were detained after the incident, the Russian Interior Ministry said on Monday.
“More than 150 active participants in the unrest have been identified and 60 of them have been arrested,” the ministry said in a statement.
Dozens of protesters, most chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greater than all), broke down doors and barriers at Makhachkala airport, and some stormed the runway, according to videos posted on social media and by Russian media outlets RT and Izvestia. .
VIDEO: An angry crowd stormed the airport in Dagestan
The Russian aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, soon announced that it had closed the airport to inbound and outbound flights and that security forces had arrived.
A statement from the Ministry of Health of the Republic states that there were injured people, but it does not detail how many and who were affected.
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