Antisemitic Attacks in Russia: A problem for Putin?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
An antisemitic mob stormed Makhachkala airport in Dagestan over the weekend, looking for Jewish passengers arriving from Israel.
What could this violence mean for the Kremlin?
To answer this - and more - Victoria and Vitaly chat with author and journalist Oliver Bullough and Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Keiligh Baker, Arsenii Sokolov and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 615 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.0 | I will be okay with this! |
| 0:12.0 | I will be okay with this! |
| 0:14.0 | I will be okay with this! |
| 0:17.0 | I will be okay with this! |
| 0:19.0 | What you can hear there are the sounds of a mob. |
| 0:24.0 | Breaking through an airport, through security doors, through security barriers, |
| 0:29.0 | and onto the runway of an airport in Dagestan because a plane had arrived from Israel. |
| 0:36.0 | Hundreds of people, some of whom were shouting, anti-Semitic slogans, |
| 0:42.0 | broke into the main airport in Dagestan, which was a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia, |
| 0:49.0 | amid rumours that refugees from Israel had been taken by plane |
| 0:55.0 | and were being resettled in that part of Russia. |
| 0:59.0 | And these rumours turned out to be untrue. |
| 1:02.0 | There are plenty of videos on social media which you may well have come across, |
| 1:07.0 | where the crowds were demanding passports from some of the passengers. |
| 1:11.0 | They literally got onto the runway. |
| 1:13.0 | They were surrounding some of the passengers, demanding their passports, |
| 1:17.0 | demanding their phones. |
| 1:19.0 | It was completely and utterly terrifying. |
| 1:23.0 | And we are going to ask in this episode of Ukrainecast, |
| 1:26.0 | why a war in the Middle East is impacting this region of Russia. |
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