The editor-in-chief of the Dagestani media outlet RIA Derbent, Milrad Fatullaev, filed complaints with the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, and Roskomnadzor regarding the dissemination of "fake" information on behalf of his publication. Unknown individuals are spreading a false report via instant messaging apps about the planned resettlement of Israeli Jews to Derbent.
The editors note that similar provocations also occurred last fall. The "fake" news, gaining traction on social media, concerns 500 "Orthodox families" from Israel, for whom modular homes will allegedly be built using funds from Senator Suleiman Kerimov.
The publication recalls that in October 2023, similar disinformation reports about evacuation flights carrying refugees from Israel provoked mass riots at Makhachkala Airport, as well as other incidents, including an attack on the construction site of a Jewish cultural center in Nalchik.
