3 OF 10 GRAVES DESECRATED IN SOCHI TURN OUT TO BE ARMENIAN ONES
SOCHI, AUGUST 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On August 13,
some unknown persons destroyed 10 tombstones and monuments in the
cemetery of the village Razdolnoye (Sochi, Khosta region). According
to the newspaper “Erkramas” published by Russian Armenians, the word
“schizophrenia” was written on each of the destroyed graves, on several
of the tombstones – in chalk. It was found out that three Armenian
graves and seven Russian ones were destroyed. Police said that this
crime resembles the one committed in the cemetery of Verkhni Yuyt
village on July 29 when 29 tombstones (28 Armenian and a Russian)
were broken.