Armenians Picket Russian Embassy Over Killings In Moscow

ARMENIANS PICKET RUSSIAN EMBASSY OVER KILLINGS IN MOSCOW

Mediamax news agency
5 Jun 06

Yerevan, 5 June: Several dozen people staged a protest rally called
“Stop fascism!” outside the Russian embassy in Yerevan today.

The rally participants protested at recent killings of young Armenians
in Moscow.

The Helsinki committee of Armenia and other nongovernmental
organizations initiated the rally.

“The inaction of the Russian authorities gives us grounds to assume
that fascist groupings are being patronized by certain state structures
of Russia,” Arsen Kharatyan, chairman of the for the development of
science initiative group, said at the rally.

The protest rally had not been authorized by the mayor’s office
of Yerevan.