"Russian Community" Announces Conflict with "Caucasian Community" in Ugra

People from the Caucasus in Yugra demanded an apology from a member of the “Russian Community” who distributed a video of one of them on social networks, the association claims.

The official Telegram channel of the "Russian Community" reported today on a conflict with members of a chat called "Caucasian Community" in the city of Pyt-Yakh (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug).

According to the association, one of the members of the "Russian Community" was threatened by a "crowd of bearded men." The conflict arose after this "vigilante" filmed a man of Caucasian appearance on the street and published the video on social networks. After this, the fellow countrymen of the man who was caught on video allegedly found the author of the recording and forced him to record a video with an apology.

The published video contains fragments of recordings made by members of the "Russian Community". The author of the first video, which became the reason for the conflict, filmed a man on the street who, in his opinion, was intoxicated with drugs. In the video, this man is leaning on a parapet and holding his shin with his hand. Further on, the footage shows a group of several dozen men gathered in the courtyard of a multi-story building, one of them demands that the author of the video stop recording.

“Some of them introduced themselves as “Kumyk elders,” others - differently. They surrounded him and tried to force him to apologize on camera. They said, “You filmed our friends as if they were drug addicts!” - this is how the “Russian Community” describes the conflict.

According to the association, at some point the police appeared on the scene, but they “just watched what was happening.” As a result, “the crowd forced the vigilante to record a video with a refutation.”

“It turns out that there is a certain chat called “Caucasian Community,” where participants call for reprisals against people and, first of all, against participants of the “Russian Community.” Immediately after recording the video with an “apology” from our brother, the bearded men shouted slogans “This is our city!” - the publication claims.

The post concludes by stating that the “Russian Community” will seek a public apology from the provocateurs.” The publication contains tags for the official channels of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, the Investigative Committee, and the head of this agency, Alexander Bastrykin.

The “Caucasian Knot” does not have confirmation of the information about the nationality of the participants in the conflict or the existence of a network association in Yugra called the “Caucasian Community.”

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