MOSCOW TEEN BEING HELD IN ALLEGED RACIALLY MOTIVATED SLAYING
Ayinde O. Chase – All Headline News Staff Writer

All Headline News
April 24 2006

Atlanta, GA (AHN) – Moscow police are holding a high school student
tied to the killing of an Armenian teenager in the Moscow subway over
the weekend.

A spokesman for the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office says, “A 17-year-old
student from a Moscow high school has been detained in connection with
the killing of an Armenian committed last Saturday,” adding that the
teenager had admitted his involvement in the incident.

Prosecutors believed the case to be racially motivated due to a string
of recent attacks aimed at foreigners or people with darker skin.

The latest victim was Vagan Abramyants, 17, of the Moscow Academy
of Management was attacked and stabbed to death on the platform of
Pushkinskaya metro station in the center of the capital at about 5
p.m. on Saturday.