Dancing with Georgian flags in Vladikavkaz resulted in apologies and arrests.

Four participants in a wedding procession and dances with Georgian flags in the center of Vladikavkaz have been arrested for ten days. Apologies to residents of North and South Ossetia have appeared online.

The Telegram channel BONV[Ӕ]RNON, which has over 12,000 subscribers, published information on July 14th about a convoy with Georgian flags spotted on Kosta Avenue in Vladikavkaz, and at the end, a car with South Ossetian license plates also carrying a Georgian flag.

According to a video posted by Sapa, two young men danced on the roadway with Georgian flags in their hands to Georgian music and then got into cars. They waved Georgian flags from the windows, including from a car with South Ossetian license plates.

A video with apologies from the motorcade participants was published by the Tbilisi Life Telegram channel. One of the young men apologized to the residents of South and North Ossetia for removing a Georgian flag from a car with South Ossetian license plates. "This will not happen again," he said, standing next to the car with a South Ossetian flag on top.

"We didn't mean to offend anyone, to make a joke, no ethnic hatred," another young man said in another part of the video. "They explained to us that it was wrong, that it was unseemly on our part." The video shows three young men, only one of whom speaks, while the other two stand with their heads bowed.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia has opened a criminal case regarding the dangerous behavior of wedding convoy participants on the roads of Vladikavkaz.

"A criminal case has been opened under Article 267.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation regarding the actions of wedding convoy participants that created a threat to road safety in Vladikavkaz," the law enforcement agency said in a statement today.

The convoy's vehicles were impounded and placed in an impound lot. The vehicles were recognized as material evidence in the criminal case.

In addition, eight participants in the incident were brought to administrative responsibility for petty hooliganism 1 , four of whom were sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.

The maximum penalty under Article 267.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for imprisonment for up to two years, the law enforcement agency clarified.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on June 9, a video was circulated on social media in which Ksenia Alypova from Chita apologized to residents of Abkhazia for walking In Gagra, wearing a Panama hat with the Georgian flag. The harsh reaction in Abkhazia to the Georgian symbols on the tourist's Panama hat is related to Georgia's position on the territorial issue, but the incident itself, with the tourist's apology, is too insignificant to trigger a reaction from the authorities, political scientists noted.