Russian Armenians indignant at student’s murder in Moscow

ITAR-TASS News Agency
April 23, 2006 Sunday 12:16 PM EST

The Union of Russian Armenians is indignant at the murder of Vagan
Abramiants, 17-year-old freshman of the Moscow Management Institute,
at the Pushkinskaya metro station in downtown Moscow.

The young man was killed in a Saturday brawl. Eyewitnesses said that
a skinhead wearing high boots lethally stabbed Abramiants.

“We, the same as all citizens of the Russian Federation, are alarmed
and concerned about the unpunished series of ethnic hatred violence in
Russian cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh and others,” says
a statement signed up by President of the Union of Russian Armenians
and the World Armenian Congress Ara Abramian received by Itar-Tass.

The right to live is the main human right, the statement said. “We
strongly urge law enforcement agencies to find and put to justice
the murderers of Vagan Abramiants,” he said.

“The attack by skinheads is obviously a provocative act and an
attempt to cast a shadow on the image of our fatherland. The outbreak
of actions by fascist elements must be stopped,” the statement runs.