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2025-07-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Four airport rioters convicted in Dagestan
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced the defendants in the case of the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport to terms of 11 to 11 years and 6 months in prison. Among those convicted is the only woman among all the defendants, Patimat Sharudinova.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the first hearing in the Stavropol Regional Court on the case against four natives of Dagestan took place on December 3, 2024.

Today, the Stavropol Regional Court announced the verdict for four more residents of Dagestan in the case of the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport. Devletkhan Ramazanov, Gadzhi Imanmurzaev, Asker Budaykhanov and Patimat Sharudinova were found guilty of organizing mass riots and violating transport security. They received sentences ranging from 11 to 11.5 years, the Stavropol Regional Prosecutor's Office reported on its Telegram channel. 

According to the investigation, on October 29, 2023, all four came to the Makhachkala airport, where riots were taking place "based on national and religious hatred and hostility towards Israeli citizens" due to the arrival of a flight from Tel Aviv. There they "refused to comply with the lawful demands of law enforcement officers, took part in mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property," but their specific actions are not named.

A RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies reported that Sharudinova is the only woman involved in the cases of unrest at Uytash airport.

This trial can be called the most important, since in the dock there are natives of Dagestan, who are accused not just of participating, but of organizing the riots, the chairman of the Dagestan POC Shamil Khadulaev said earlier. "It seems that they want to make these people the main culprits, although many questions arise in general about this case. One of such episodes is the accusation against Gadzhi Imanmurzaev. There is a video in which you can hear him calling on people to calm down, trying to stop what is happening. But the investigation believes that he is the organizer and did not want to stop, but, on the contrary, provoked the riots," Khadulaev told the "Caucasian Knot".

"(Sharudinova) waved a flag and did nothing else. Putting her in jail for these actions is a very big mistake. Especially since she is a woman, disabled and the mother of a minor child," said former member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan Arsen Magomedov.

The Times of Israel provides an overview:
Russian courts sentence 135 people linked to 2023 antisemitic airport riot

Mob attacked plane landing from Israel in first weeks of war with Hamas; Dagestan region has seen uptick of antisemitism since war began

Russian courts sentenced 135 people to lengthy prison sentences in connection with a mass antisemitic riot in October 2023 at an airport in the predominantly Moslem Dagestan
...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca...
region, the country’s Investigative Committee said on Friday.

Hundreds of rioters stormed an airport in the city of Makhachkala, where a plane from Tel Aviv had just arrived, amid unrest in the North Caucasus over Israel’s war against Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, which had begun a few weeks earlier when the terror group launched the October 7 massacre.

Investigators said they completed probes into the participation of 139 in the events.

Three additional people, whom they say had organized the riots via posts on a Telegram channel, were put on Russia’s wanted list.

The 135 convicted people were given prison terms ranging from six and a half to 15 years for participating in mass riots and other crimes. Investigators did not name the people or say how they pleaded.

In January, four members of the mob were sentenced to a decade in a penal colony. In August, five rioters were sentenced to jail terms ranging from six to nine years.

Video footage at the time showed the protesters, mostly young men, waving Paleostinian flags, breaking down glass doors and running through the airport shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great).

More than 20 people were maimed before security forces could contain the unrest. No passengers on the plane were hurt.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
blamed the West and Ukraine for the unrest, without providing evidence. Kyiv denied any role, and the United States strongly condemned the violence.

The Republic of Dagestan has seen notable amounts of antisemitism since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out.

Last July, Jewish graves in the area were destroyed, though authorities said they were damaged in a traffic accident.

Last June, 22 people were killed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked holy warriors in an attack that targeted two synagogues and two churches.
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