From what was reported in the Russian media at the time these were not simply protests in the Muslim majority area but literally violent riots and they wanted to drag people off of landing planes and beat them and worse. In theory these people are probably extremists who fell for the hating all Jews thing.

The leader of the region at the time said something to the effect of using a bullet between the eyes on these people so I think given it’s a Muslim majority region it likely went far beyond flag burnings and the usual marches.

Do NOT attempt to conflate this with the criminalization of simple speech and peaceful protests or vandalism activism that the west is actively engaging in. The west is silencing all speech with full spectrum dominance pushing the zionist narrative in media, censoring Palestinian and anti-genocide voices on social media, arming and enabling the genocide and sanctioning the ICC and other international officials who have declared it a genocide to gag and silence them.

These are nothing alike.

Russia is not funding the zionist regime. Russia is not enabling them at the UN like the US. The genocide and responsibility for it and the repression of those fighting against it falls on THE WEST and the zionist entity which is a part of the west.

Whatever else Russia does or has done (and their media is hardly anti-zionist, waffling between repeating hasbara just like western media and musing about the whole Ukraine thing and how upset western leaders are about that compared to Palestine and the hypocrisy).

Russia was never going to allow a mob to lynch a bunch of “israeli” settlers. Most countries wouldn’t and that likely even includes places like South Africa that are at the forefront of prosecuting “israel” for genocide at the ICJ. I personally would say they’re all guilty when part of the project BUT stories like this are mainly used to shift attention from the west’s enabling of the genocide and repression at home to “zomg look how bad things are in bad nation”.