MOSNEWS, Russia
May 30 2006

Young Armenian’s Killing Near Moscow May Be Race-Related

MosNews

Prosecutors have opened a hate crime investigation into the fatal
stabbing of an Armenian teenager at a Moscow suburban train station,
a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. Artur
Sardaryan, 19, was killed on Thursday in the latest in a string of
racially-motivated attacks in Moscow and throughout Russia, The
Associated Press reports.

Three young men approached Sardaryan as he was sitting on a commuter
train around 11:30 p.m. and stabbed him for no apparent reason. He
died later on the way to a hospital, Yelena Rossokhina, a spokeswoman
for Moscow regional prosecutors, told journalists.

Lawyer Simon Tsaturyan said that witnesses reported the youths
yelling `Glory to Russia!’ and `Long Live Russia!’, Ekho Moskvy radio
said.

Russia in recent years has seen an increase in racially-motivated
attacks on foreigners and migrants from the poorer Caucasus region
and Central Asia. Last month, a skinhead fatally stabbed an Armenian
student on a central Moscow subway platform.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress