It was not limited to Manezhnaya

The police responded to reports spread on the Internet that a gathering of Caucasians would take place near the Evropeisky shopping center on December 15 in response to the atrocities at Manezhnaya, and that Russian nationalists were also going to come there to continue the battle. Many called the first message a provocation; representatives of various official associations of Caucasian peoples and Muslims urged not to fall for it. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, even announced that not a single Chechen would participate in anything like that. Representatives of the fan association of the Anzhi football club (Makhachkala) “Wild Division” confirmed their readiness to come to the shopping center, but not to use violence against anyone, but just to talk. Riot police were on duty at the shopping center from early morning, minor skirmishes occurred during the day, troublemakers on both sides were detained, knives and baseball bats were confiscated. By 18.00, the time for which the gatherings were scheduled, a crowd of about several hundred people had gathered near the shopping center, but riot police began to disperse it. The so-called fighters from both one side and the other were detained (most of those who came were defenders of the purity of the Russian race). Official representative of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov reported that the majority of those detained were Caucasians. Violent minors were warned that they would be reported to educational institutions. "European" stopped working. Nationalists (in some reports they are called people similar to football fans; at a press conference held on December 14 at RIA Novosti, the head of the All-Russian Association of Fans, Alexander Shprygin, called football fans the main patriots) tried to block Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street, but they failed. At the same time, Red Square was closed. A major fight took place on Smolenskaya Square, and bits and pieces of reinforcement were used. Riot police did not prevent it immediately. About sixty Russian nationalists, as reported by The New Times website, moved along Tverskoy Boulevard towards the Pushkinskaya station and further towards the Mayakovskaya station. At this time, blog posts appeared that about five thousand people were moving in a procession from the Airport metro station to the center. At the Park Kultury metro station, as the Novaya Gazeta website reported, a group of Caucasians attacked a riot policeman. Around the same time, police officers were called over the loudspeaker at the Lubyanka station. And on the street near the Park Kultury station there was a clash between Caucasians and Russian nationalists. From there, a crowd of conditional fans moved towards the Belyaevo station. About 200 representatives of the Caucasian diaspora gathered at the mosque on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street. Then a large group of Caucasians gathered at the Tretyakovskaya station and started a fight with the police, after which riot police dispersed them. Moreover, while they were walking from the mosque to the metro, there were reportedly no police along their route. A certain general of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate entered into negotiations with the Caucasians, and they began to disperse in small groups under the control of the police. There were also reports of clashes near the Proletarskaya station. The nationalists arrived in a crowd on Pyatnitskaya Street, the police convinced them that there was no one there, and they went to the Paveletsky station, where, when the police appeared, they went down to the metro. A major fight with gunfire took place near the University station; there was a report of one person killed and several people injured. The police do not confirm this data, as well as the fact of a fight near the Park of Culture. There were reports of fights in Lyubertsy and the Mitino area. In total, at least 30 people were injured in Moscow during the day.

According to various sources, from 800 to more than 1,200 people were detained in the city. About 200 knives and seven traumatic weapons were seized. The police will maintain an increased level of security in the city until late at night, Interfax reports. Increased attention will be paid to metro stations (however, for example, on the Sokolnicheskaya line from the Kropotkinskaya station downwards, the Daily Journal correspondent did not see the results of taking special security measures; at some stations there was no police presence at all), train stations, shopping centers, squares. Additional security measures should be taken in residential areas, in places where representatives of the Caucasian diaspora live densely.

Riots also occurred in St. Petersburg and Samara, but on a much smaller scale.

Meanwhile, the head of the Muslims of Kabardino-Balkaria, Anas Pshikhachev, was shot dead in Nalchik. On December 14, he participated in a round table of the republican public dedicated to interethnic violence in Moscow. On the evening of December 15, two unknown men called him from his house and shot him on the street. It should be recalled that the suspect in the murder of football fan Yegor Sviridov, Aslan Cherkesov, is a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. It was the murder of Sviridov, or rather the investigative actions, as a result of which all the other participants in the fight in which he died were released from custody, that became the formal reason for the first mass protests of fans and nationalists in Moscow in December.