On the Internet, you can often read that the mayor of the Yakut capital did not meet the requirements of local migrants. We checked whether this happened in reality.

Here is what the news is popular in Runet: “The mayor of Yakutsk, who refused to remove pork from the school canteens menu at the request of Muslims, commented on his decision: "Muslims should understand that they should integrate and learn to live in Yakutsk. They must understand that they must change their lifestyle, and not the Yakutians who have so generously welcomed them. Muslims should understand that the Yakutians are not racists, not xenophobes. Yakutia accepted a lot of immigrants before the Muslims appeared here. Just like other nations, the Yakutians are not ready. To abandon his identity or his culture, and if Yakutia has accepted someone on his land, then this is not the mayor of the Yakut people as a whole. They feel comfortable in Yakutia, there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world, most of them are sparsely populated and ready to meet them with open arms ”” (spelling is preserved. - Ed.).

This information is popular both in social networks (more than 5000 reposts in Facebook, 249,000 views in "VKontakte"), and on other news resources (9111.ru, Joyreactor, website Armenian Museum of Moscow and Culture of Nations). Some sources even indicate the name of the mayor - Aisen Sergeyevich Nikolaev.

A careful person may catch a large scatter in the dates of publications: so, on the resource "YaPlakal"The post appeared in November 2016, and in"VKontakte"(With the mention of Nikolaev) - in December 2021. And although in the latter case everything is submitted in the present tense (“Now the mayors will begin to poison”), but it is easy Find outthat this post Aisen Nikolaev occupied from 2012 to 2018, and now heads the whole republic. There is also a mistake of coordination (“in Yakutia with his Tengrian”, “are ready to meet with open arms”), which cannot be submitted in a statement by an official of such a rank. Another problem is that the information about Nikolaev’s act until November 2016 is not found at all. There are no them in official reports after this date. Not to mention the fact that Russia is a multi -confessional country (Muslim only here He lives About 20 million), in which such a sharp statement could not be left without reaction.

But on the resource "Picabu" you can meet publication From November 24, 2015 with almost literally the same text, but ... about the mayor of the Canadian Quebec. From another similar news You can find out that it was the mayor not the city of Quebec, but the suburbs of Montreal - Dorval, which is part of the Quebec province. Strange, isn't it? Further - more. If we turn to English -speaking sources, we will find such news about the mayors of the Australian towns Maroboro (2016) and Dzhundalup (2019). This could be mistaken for a flash mob if the text of the news did not coincide with the accuracy until the translation. In addition, if the Yakutsk city hall did not particularly react to this information, then, for example, in Dorvale, refuted her.

However, neither Canadian nor Australian cities claim the championship in this fake with elements of xenophobia. It all started in 2013 with the Belgian town of AT, and the main character of the viral news He became his mayor Mark Duvivier. Soon, in response to rumors on the municipality website, a refutation appeared. Duvivier declaredthat "not a single person, no matter what his nationality or ethnicity, has made such a request to municipal services." Moreover, the mayor filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies. Nevertheless, history not only survived to this day, but also migrated to other countries and cities.

Interestingly, in 2018, a similar case really occurred in France. The extreme right mayor of the French city Boker Julien Sanchez canceled Alternative pork dishes in school canteens, saying that "religious exceptions to the menu violate the law" and that "in France the republic has priority before religion." However, this was after the invented monologue of the Belgian mayor became a vague plot. Note that in recent decades in the West have appeared A lot various “ducks”, inciting hatred or at least promoting a harsh attitude to migrants, especially to the professing Islam.