It might not have been a matter of nationality
In Yakutsk, as a result of a brawl, an 18-year-old native of Tajikistan killed a 26-year-old resident of Yakutia. The incident sparked protests in the city. «MK» figured out whether the national issue really played a decisive role here.
It all started with a domestic conflict. An 18-year-old guy was relaxing at the Myata club, where a fight broke out between him and a 23-year-old native of Namsky ulus. The next day, the 23-year-old guy took his friends, including a 26-year-old man, and went home to the person with whom the conflict began. A stabbing began on the spot. 3 people were injured, one of them died in the hospital.
The incident caused discontent among local residents, and on January 24, an uncoordinated rally was held in Yakutsk from 12 to 1 p.m. local time. The gathering was announced on Victory Square. Due to the fact that 6 buses of security forces cordoned off the square, the rally participants did not dare to get out of their cars until 12:10. After this, protesters began to gather in small groups on the square.
After 10 minutes, Oleg Lebed, deputy chief of police for public order, came out to the crowd. He tried to calm the protesters: “The killer has been detained. He is a citizen of Russia just like you. We caught him, there will be an investigation. Guys, what are you going to do?»
Soon the participants moved to Ordzhonikidze Square, and, seeing the police officers on duty there, rushed to Lenin Square. At this point, the law enforcement officers’ patience ran out, and they asked those gathered to proceed to the paddy wagons. They, however, did not resist much. By 13:00 the rally was over.
The head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, gave his comments on what happened: “I ordered to strengthen measures of public safety and crime prevention, including monitoring migrants. We will firmly suppress any attempts to destabilize our society.” He also called on the residents of Yakutsk “not to respond to the illegal calls that are now being spread.”
The chairman of the Tajik community, Khodi Oev, did not stand aside. He published his appeal to the residents of the republic: “The culprit will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. We comply and will comply with all laws of Russia. On behalf of those Tajiks who live in Yakutia, I want to say that we sincerely regret what happened and offer deep condolences.”
The suspect in the incident is Mukhamad Odinaev, who was previously convicted of robbery in 2022. Single, no children, citizen of the Russian Federation, works in delivery. The Yakutsk City Court has already held a hearing to select a preventive measure. He was arrested for 2 months.
It is worth noting that there are not many natives of Tajikistan in Yakutsk. At the time of 2022, as the chairman of the board of the Tajik community “Somonien” Muzaffar Sangaliev reported in one of his interviews, about 5 thousand Tajiks lived in the republic, of which 2 thousand had Russian citizenship.
Recall that the protests in In Yakutsk, on the basis of interethnic hatred, events took place in 2019. Then an unknown person forcibly put the resident of Yakutia into a car, took her to the garages, raped her, and then left her in a car workshop with his friends and left. The victim contacted the police with a statement. The suspect turned out to be a native of Kyrgyzstan, he and two of his acquaintances were detained.
A few hours after the rape was reported, a call to go out into the streets and show “the unity of the Sakha people” spread in messengers. As a result, a spontaneous anti-migrant rally with the participation of 200 people gathered on Komsomolskaya Square in the city center.
After the incident, the head of the republic, Aisen Nikolaev, adopted a Decree banning the hiring of foreign workers in Yakutia.
“MK «talked with and asked what this kind of rallies can lead to and how much they are really connected with nationality:
“I don’t think this is specific to Yakutsk. This basically happens from time to time here and there. But it doesn't always sound loud enough. In addition, there is not exactly a huge number of migrants there, and Yakutia does not particularly stand out in terms of crime rates. I don't think local Yakut activists, of whom there are few, should be worried about Tajik cultural expansion. At the same time, they did not fight because they have different ethnic origins. No one even put forward this hypothesis. But criminal incidents cause reactions everywhere. There are two things going on here. People are unhappy with migrants (but people everywhere are unhappy with migrants). And people are dissatisfied with the police, they say, they didn’t keep track of something there.”
— According to my many years of observations, out of the many thousands of fights that take place in the country, some a percentage will come from fights between people of different ethnic backgrounds. And in most cases this point is not emphasized. They fought and fought. But if this topic begins to be discussed a lot in society, then journalists, activists, and officials begin to pay more often attention to the identity of the participant in a certain incident. That is, when this topic is raised in society, a self-sustaining process begins. Those episodes that would previously have gone unnoticed are now being paid attention to.
— Yes. Incidents happen and will continue to happen forever. And if people learn to pay attention precisely to who is of what origin, then their dissatisfaction with something will spill out in precisely this direction. This is fraught.
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